Port Performance Freight Statistics - PDF file, January 2024
1 Port Houston, TX
2 South Louisiana, LA, Port of
3 Corpus Christi, TX
4 Port of New York and New Jerskey, NY & NJ
5 Port of Long Beach, CA
6 Port of New Orleans, LA
7 Beaumont, TX
8 Port of Greater Baton Rouge, LA
9 Port of Virginia, VA (Newport, Hampton Roads)
10 Port of Los Angeles, CA
11 Paquemines Port District, LA
12 Mobile, AL
13 Lake Charles Harbor District, LA
14 Port of Savannah, GA
15 Port Freeport, TX
16 Port Arthur, TX
17 Baltimore, MD
What's seriously telling about that list isn't the low position of Baltimore, but the negligibility of NYC. Used to be THE major port until the 1960s when the unions kept containerization out. Thought they were protecting their job security.