Container / TEU

The following figure shows the total volume of imports, exports, and domestic freight handled by each of the top 25 container ports by twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) from 2015 to 2020. The Nation's container ports are located along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. 

The top 25 container ports handled a total of 39.8 million TEU, accounting for 96.5 percent of the loaded TEU handled by all U.S. container ports.[1] The container ports with the highest TEU volumes were coastal container ports, such as the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and New York and New Jersey.[2] The 2020 top container port was the port of Los Angeles, California.