The Port of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has handled 5.01 million loaded TEUs from January through October.
This reportedly makes the port the nation’s second-busiest cargo gateway for loaded TEUs.
Goods continued to move smoothly through the port in October, with an uptick in total volume and a continued monthly rise in rail volume.
Total volume grew by 3.2 per cent to 727,059 TEUs (395,687 containers), up from the 704,367 TEUs (387,444 containers) recorded the previous year.
This increase brings the port’s year-to-date (YTD) total through October to 7.51 million TEUs (4.12 million containers).
Exports picked up again in October, totalling 126,644 TEUs (67,618 containers), a 44.9 per cent increase from the 87,407 TEUs (46,601 containers) exported in October 2024.
This number brings the port’s January through October total to 1,209,556 TEUs (647,888 containers), an 8.1 per cent increase from the 1.11 million TEUs (600,181 containers) recorded in the same period of 2024.
Imports were down slightly (3.1 per cent) in October 2025 compared to the previous year, totalling 368,439 TEUs (201,459 containers) compared to 380,289 TEUs (210,155 containers) in October 2024.
From January through October, the port imported 3.80 million TEUs (2,095,280 containers), up 1.7 per cent from the 3.73 million TEUs (2,067,190 containers) recorded the previous year.
Export empties decreased 2.5 per cent to 229,638 TEUs in October, compared to 235,521 TEUs recorded in October 2024.
Export empties totalled 2.48 million TEUs from January through October 2025, up from 2.41 million TEUs in the same period of 2024, an increase of 3 per cent.
Import empties were down 23.1 per cent from January through October 2025 versus the same period in 2024.
Rail volume posted Year-over-Year (YoY) gains for a ninth consecutive month. October’s total of 57,272 containers represented a 22.9 per cent increase from the previous year’s figure.
Rail volume from January through October was 13.2 per cent higher than in the same period in 2024.
Elsewhere, PortMiami handled 1.11 million TEUs for Fiscal Year 2025, up from 1.08 million TEUs recorded in the same period last year.
