Over the first 10 months of the year, the Port of New York and New Jersey was the nation’s second-busiest cargo gateway for loaded TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). It handled 5,011,322 loaded TEUs from January through October.
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 percent 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 total through October to 7,514,708 TEUs (4,126,134 containers).
By The Numbers
| 2025 Year to Date (January – October) | October 2025 vs. October 2024 | October 2025 Rail Volume |
| 7,514,059 TEUs handled | 727,059 (loaded and empty) TEUs (395,687 containers) in October 2025 | 57,272 containers moved |
| 3.1 percent increase over the same period in 2024 | 704,367 (loaded and empty) TEUs (387,444 containers) in October 2024 | 22.9 percent increase over October 2024 |
Exports picked up again in October, totaling 126,644 TEUs (67,618 containers), a 44.9 percent increase from the 87,407 TEUs (46,601 containers) exported in October 2024. This number brings the Port of New York and New Jersey’s January through October total to 1,209,556 TEUs (647,888 containers), an 8.1 percent increase from the 1,118,406 TEUs (600,181 containers) recorded in the same period of 2024.
Imports (TEUs) were down slightly (3.1 percent) in October 2025 compared to the previous year, totaling 368,439 TEUs (201,459 containers) compared to 380,289 TEUs (210,155 containers) in October 2024. From January through October, the Port of New York and New Jersey imported 3,801,766 TEUs (2,095,280 containers), up 1.7 percent from the 3,737,683 TEUs (2,067,190 containers) recorded the previous year.
Export empties decreased 2.5 percent to 229,638 TEUs in October, compared to 235,521 TEUs recorded in October 2024. Export empties totaled 2,487,502 TEUs from January through October 2025, up from 2,414,564 TEUs in the same period of 2024, an increase of 3 percent. Import empties were down 23.1 percent from January through October 2025 versus the same period in 2024.
Rail volume posted year-over-year gains for a ninth consecutive month. October’s total of 57,272 containers represented a 22.9 percent increase from the previous year’s figure. Rail volume from January through October was 13.2 percent higher than in the same period in 2024.
A total of 29,382 autos moved through the Port of New York and New Jersey in October, a 1.8 percent decrease compared with October 2024. Auto volume from January through October was 11.4 percent less than in the same period of 2024.
View monthly cargo volume here.