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Drewry Ports Throughput Index Falls 5.9% YoY
[ November 1, 2025 // Gary Burrows ]Drewry’s Global Container Port Throughput Index increased 1.3 percent month-over-month in August, up 5.1 percent year-over-year. Meanwhile, the rolling 12-month growth rate fell to 5.9 percent, continuing the downward trend that started in May.
However, year-to-date performance remains ahead of projections made earlier in the year, raising the 2025 forecast 4.7 percent in the September edition of Drewry’s Container Forecaster. The growth continues to be driven by the Middle East and South Asia region, up 8.1 percent year-to-date, with Europe year-over-year increase 6.6 percent – the only other region to post above-average growth.”
The Greater China Container Port Throughput Index rose 4.3 percent month-over-month in August, up 5.4 percent year-over-year. The anticipated slowdown from the imposition of U.S. tariffs has yet to materialize, with the deadline pushed back a further 90 days to Nov. 10, Drewry said. Shanghai’s volumes jumped 8.8 percent month-over-month/11.5 percent year-over-year to a new monthly high of more than 5 million TEUs.
The North American Container Port Throughput Index rose 0.4 percent month-over-month in August to 120.1 points, up 2.2 percent year-over-year. Volumes at Long Beach and Los Angeles finally started to reduce in August, as the pre-tariff demand surge passed through the ports. Throughput fell 6 percent month-over-month at Los Angeles (down 0.2 percent year-over-year) and 4.5 percent month-over-month at Long Beach (down 1.3 percent year-over-year).
The European Container Port Throughput Index fell 4.1 percent month-over-month in August but remained up 4.9 percent year-over-year at 112.8 points. The rolling 12-month growth rate decreased to 6.7 percent.
Drewry’s Container Port Throughput indices are a series of calendar adjusted volume growth/decline based on monthly throughput data for a sample of more than 340 ports worldwide, representing more than 80 percent of global volumes.
