1.11 Top 25 Tonnage Ports in 2020

1. According to USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics-The top 25 tonnage ports handled a total of 1,744 million tons of cargo about 71.3 percent of the tonnage handled by the top 100 ranked ports. The top 100 ports account for 95.5 percent of total tonnage handled by U.S. ports.
2. The highest tonnage figures are associated with ports that handle large quantities of both liquid bulk cargo (e.g., petroleum or chemicals) and dry bulk cargo (e.g., coal or grain), such as the ports of Houston, South Louisiana, and Corpus Christi.
3. The 2020 top tonnage port was the port of Houston.