Dry Bulk

The top 25 ports for dry bulk tonnage handled a total of 631 million tons of dry bulk cargo in 2022, accounting for 65 percent of the 965.9 million dry bulk tons handled by all ports nationwide.  Of the dry bulk cargo handled by the top 25 ports, 50 percent of it was domestic, 37 percent of it was exports, and 13 percent of it was imports.  For details on the ports' commodities, please see the Port Profiles.

Regarding the ports' locations, 8 are on the Gulf Coast, 5 are on the Pacific Coast,  5 are on the Great Lakes, 4 are on the Inland Waterways, 2 are on the Atlantic Coast, and 1 is in Hawaii.

The following figure shows the total volume of imports, exports, and domestic freight handled by each of the top 25 ports by dry bulk tonnage in 2022. [1]