Ports and sea cargo
Cargo through each of Mexico’s commercial seaports in 2025, in tonnes, with the containers counted apart.
Where the sea cargo lands
Tonnes handled in each state’s commercial seaports, 2025, foreign trade and domestic shipping together, oil left out; deeper is more
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Dark blue: no seaport cargo reported in 2025 (inland, or a port with none).
Veracruz and Colima handle 41% of the cargo; 14 of the 32 have a commercial seaport with cargo in 2025. Each state is a link to its page.
Every port, ranked
Tonnes by commercial seaport, 2025, with foreign trade (altura), domestic shipping (cabotaje), containers and the change on 2024
No cargo reported in 2025 (5): Rosarito (Baja California), Acapulco (Guerrero), Lerma (Campeche), Cayo Arcas (Campeche), Las Coloradas (Yucatán)
Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, on the Pacific, and Veracruz and Altamira, on the Gulf, move 63% of the tonnes. Foreign trade is 81% of the total, domestic shipping 19%. Punta Sam and Isla Mujeres carry the same figures in the report, as published.
Containers, counted apart
Containers handled by port, 2025, in TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units); ports under 1,000 TEU left off the chart
Manzanillo alone handled 41% of the country’s 9,529,886 TEU. A TEU is a box, not a weight: this chart is never added to the tonnes above.
What is absent, and why: oil and oil products are counted apart in the same report (89.1 million t in 2025, much of it through Pemex’s own terminals) and are not drawn by port here. The value of the cargo, berth capacity and how full each port runs are not in this report. Figures for 2025 are preliminary and the port authorities revise them.
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