In the first quarter of 2026, Chinese ports handled 4.39 billion tons of goods, a volume that represents an increase of +4.0% over the corresponding period of 2014. last year and the new record for this time of year. The new peak for the first quarter is also for the only traffic handled by seaports, which is amounted to 2.87 billion tonnes (+5.0%), as well as for the traffic handled by Chinese inland ports, which is result of 1.52 billion tons (+2.3%).

In the first three months of this year, the most consistent volume of traffic was handled by the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 365.9 million tons (+4.1%) followed by ports of Tangshan with 215.5 million tons (+3.7%), Shanghai with 198.2 million tonnes (+6.0%), Qingdao with 187.2 million tonnes of tons (+4.1%), Rizhao with 164.3 million tons (+2.4%), Guangzhou with 158.4 million tons (+1.6%) and Yantai with 141.9 million tons (+7.4%).

Even the only foreign traffic handled by Chinese ports in the January-March quarter of 2026 it set new records for This period of the year having been equal to 1.43 billion tons (+7.6%), with a record for the period for both traffic handled by seaports and for that handled by ports volumes, of which amounted to 1.28 billion tonnes (+7.8%) and 143.5 million tonnes (+5,8%).

The largest volume of international goods was handled by the port of Qingdao with 141.3 million tons (+9.4%) followed by the ports of Shanghai with 121.7 million tons (+6.3%), Tangshan with 99.3 million tons (+10.3%), Tianjin with 93.4 million tons (+7.8%), Rizhao with 89.7 million tonnes (-7.0%), Shenzhen with 69.0 million tonnes tons (+10.6%) and Yantai with 54.1 million tons (+23,2%).

In the first three months of 2026, only containerized traffic handled by Chinese ports amounted to over 89.6 million TEUs (+8.0%), a volume that is a new record for this time of year as well as those enlivened by the seaports and inland ports that were found to be equal to 79.2 million TEUs (+8.3%) and 10.5 million TEUs respectively TEU (+5.8%). Highest traffic volume was handled from the port of Shanghai with 14.1 million TEUs (+6.8%) followed by the ports of Ningbo-Zhoushan with 11.5 million TEUs (+14.7%), Shenzhen with 9.1 million TEUs (+8.2%), Qingdao with 8.6 million TEUs (+8.7%), Guangzhou with 6.7 million TEUs million TEUs (+4.5%) and Tianjin with 6.3 million TEUs (+9.6%).

In March 2026 alone, Chinese seaports 1.00 billion tons of goods handled, with an increase in by +1.9% on March 2025, of which 427.2 million tonnes of foreign traffic (+5.0%), while inland ports handled 521.6 million tons of cargo (-7.4%), of which 49.1 million tons with foreign countries (+5.1%). Traffic alone of containers handled by seaports amounted to 27.2 million TEUs (+5.3%) and that passed through the Inlands port to 3.7 million TEUs (+0.3%).