List of ports by freight turnover

Rank	Port	A country	Measure	Cargo handling (thousand tons; 2012) [1]
one	Shanghai	China	MT	644,659
2	Singapore	Singapore	FT	538,012
3	Tianjin	China	MT	477,000
four	Rotterdam	Netherlands	MT	441,527
five	Guangzhou	China	MT	438,000
6	Qingdao	China	MT	407,340
7	Ningbo	China	MT	364,612
eight	Dalian	China	MT	303,000
9	Busan	The Republic of Korea	RT	298,689
ten	Port headland	Australia	MT	288,443
eleven	Hong Kong	Hong Kong , China	MT	269,282
12	Qinhuangdao	China	MT	233,235
13	South louisiana	USA	MT	228,677
14	Houston	USA	MT	216.082
15	Nagoya	Japan	FT	202,556
sixteen	Shenzhen	China	MT	196,458
17	Klang	Malaysia	MT	195,856
18	Antwerp	Belgium	MT	184,136
nineteen	Dampierre	Australia	MT	180,366
20	Ulsan	The Republic of Korea	RT	174,117

MT - metric tons

FT - freight ton

RT - commercial ton (revenue tons)