The Chinese port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, which in its recent history has never recorded a drop in traffic and that in 2017 it was was the first port port in the world to exceed the quota of one billion tons of goods handled in a year ( of 28 December 2017), in 2025 it was again confirmed as the first world port by total volume of cargo traffic for the seventeenth consecutive year having moved a total of estimated at over 1.4 billion tonnes compared to 1.38 billion tonnes billion in 2024.

In addition, Ningbo Zhoushan Port Co. announced that in 2025 the container traffic handled by the port has exceeded by First time the 40 million TEUs rising to about 43 million TEUs compared to 39.3 million in the previous year, firmly maintaining third place in the world. At the end of 2025, the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan was a port of call for 309 containerized shipping lines that connect over 700 ports in more than 200 countries and regions in all over the world.