As in the previous two years, Chinese ports will also be able to operate in 2025 have set a new all-time record for freight traffic handled on their docks which was equal to 18.34 billion tons, with an increase of +4.2% over 2024. The a new absolute record is such both for the loads handled from the maritime ports alone which amounted to 11.63 billion tons (+3.7%) and by the traffic handled by the Inland Port which amounted to 6.70 billion tons (+5,1%).

In 2025, new records were also recorded by the volumes of goods to and from abroad, a flow that globally is 5.65 billion tonnes (+4.7%), of which 5.06 billion tonnes of tonnes handled by seaports (+4.7%) and 587.0 tonnes million tons from inland ports (+5.2%).

In 2025, many individual Chinese ports have handled a traffic both in relation to total freight traffic and to foreign traffic only, starting from the main port for traffic volume, Ningbo-Zhoushan, which handled a total of 1.43 billion tonnes (+4.0%), of which 660.8 million tons of international traffic (+4.2%). To follow the port of Tangshan with a total of 884.0 million tons (+2.5%) of which 381.6 million tonnes of traffic international (+8.1%), the port of Qingdao with a total of 741.3 million tonnes (+4.1%) of which 532.9 million tonnes of international goods (+6.3%), the port of Guangzhou with a total of 669.6 million tonnes (+1.8%) of which 196.1 million tonnes tons of international traffic (+11.5%), the port of Rizhao with 644.5 million tons of total goods (+3.5%) of which 381.8 million tonnes of international traffic (+1.5%) and port of Yantai with a total of 544.1 million tons (+8.4%) of which 192.1 million tonnes of international traffic (+10,6%).

Even containerized traffic alone reached in 2025 new historical records, surpassing those set the previous year, and in relation to total volumes of 354.5 million TEUs (+6.8%) and only to the traffic handled by seaports, equal to 312.0 million TEUs (+7.0%), and that handled by ports 42.5 million TEUs (+5.1%). The highest volume of container traffic was handled by the Shanghai port, which has been confirmed as the first container port with 55.1 million TEUs (+6.9%), followed by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, which has confirmed itself as the third largest airport in the world in the same ranking behind Singapore, with 43.9 million of TEUs (+11.6%), and then from the ports of Shenzhen with 35.4 million TEUs (+6.0%), Qingdao with 32.9 million TEUs (+6.5%), Guangzhou with 27.7 million TEUs million TEUs (+6.2%), Tianjin with 24.0 million TEUs (+3.2%) and Xiamen with 12.5 million TEUs (+2.1%).

In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, moreover, set a new all-time record for total freight traffic for this period of the year, 4.77 billion euros of tons, with an increase of +3.2% over the same period of 2024, with a new all-time record for traffic handled by ports 2.98 billion tonnes (+4.4%), and a new An all-time record of 1.79 billion euros in the Inland Ports of tons (+1.2%). Even the volume of traffic with foreign countries alone has marked new historical peaks both in terms of total and volumes handled by seaports and inland ports that are Results of 1.47 billion tonnes respectively (+9.2%), 1.31 billion tonnes (+9.6%) and 154.8 million tonnes tons (+5.6%).

In the last quarter of last year, the traffic of container handled by seaports amounted to 79.3 million TEUs, a volume that is only lower than the record of 80.4 million TEUs handled in the previous quarter and represents an increase of +8.4% over the third quarter of 2024, while in the fourth quarter of 2025 containerized traffic Handled by the Inland Ports has reached a new all-time record with 10.9 million TEUs (+6.0%).