NAFTA region port container traffic 2012

The data come from an AAPA survey and includes loaded containers inbound and outbound as well as empties handled in foreign and domestic trade at approximately 70 ports.

A majority of ports experienced year-on-year traffic gains, most impressively Hueneme (+139.6%), Mazatlan (+73.6%), Prince Rupert (+30.3%), Mobile (+29.3%) and Lázaro Cárdenas (+19.8%) which also became the second Mexican port, after Manzanillo, to break through the one million teu barrier.

In 2012, Los Angeles and Long Beach remained the leading container ports for both the NAFTA region and the entire Western Hemisphere. Others among the Top five NAFTA ports were New York/New Jersey, Savannah and Port Metro Vancouver.