Breakdown of the global container port throughput by region 2013-2025

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Jul 23, 2025

In 2021, Asia-Pacific accounted for almost

percent of global container throughput. Ports in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa handled about

percent of all containers shipped that year, while ports in the Americas processed about

percent of all containers shipped worldwide.

Distribution of container throughput worldwide from 2013 to 2021 with a forecast for 2022 until 2025, by region

Characteristic	APAC	EMEA	AMER
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Release date

October 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2013 to 2021

Supplementary notes

APAC stands for Asia-Pacific, EMEA for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and AMER for the Americas.
The shares have been calculated by Statista using figures provided by the source.
* Forecast

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