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Port of New York and New Jersey — Daily Cargo Handled (Estimated)

An estimate of the cargo unloaded and loaded at the Port of New York and New Jersey each day, in metric tons, from IMF PortWatch ship-tracking data.

Data status: Current
Official statisticSource figures as of October 16, 2026Sources & methods
Sources
IMF PortWatch (International Monetary Fund and University of Oxford)
Period covered
Jan 1, 2019 – Oct 9, 2026
Source figures as of
October 16, 2026
Geography
Port of New York and New Jersey, United States
Sector
Transportation, Maritime Trade & Logistics · Maritime shipping
Seasonal adjustment
Not seasonally adjusted
Transformations
Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
Revisions
Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
Data status
Current
Limitations
Seasonal swings are left in: compare a period with the same period a year earlier.

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Key figures

CK estimateMetric tons · calculated by CK Economics from International Monetary Fund data

Latest · Oct 9, 2026
190,000
28-day average −34,314 metric tons vs a year earlier1
5-year change
−71,106 metric tons
28-day average, against the 28 days to Oct 9, 20212
Record high
730,000
Jun 6, 20263
Record low
0
Nov 28, 2019 (and 10 other periods)3
Where the latest ranks
21st pct.
Higher than 21% of the other 2,838 observations since Jan 1, 20194
  1. 1Average of the latest 28 days against the average of the same 28 days a year earlier; a single day swings too much to compare.
  2. 2Average of the latest 28 days against the same 28 days five and ten years earlier. No yearly growth rate is given for daily series.
  3. 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
  4. 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.

Methodology

PortWatch's estimate of the cargo moved at the Port of New York and New Jersey each day. For each ship that calls (container ships, dry bulk carriers, general cargo ships, roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships and tankers), it estimates how full the ship is on arrival and on departure from its draft and dimensions; the change, times the ship's deadweight tonnage, is the cargo unloaded (PortWatch's "import") or loaded ("export"). A port call is counted when a ship enters the port's boundary. Calls of less than five hours with no change in the ship's draft are left out, so ships that stop only to anchor, refuel or take on supplies are not counted. IMF PortWatch builds it from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) position signals that ships broadcast, as collected by the UN Global Platform, following Arslanalp, Koepke and Verschuur, "Tracking Trade from Space" (IMF Working Paper 2021/225). CK Economics adds PortWatch's import and export estimates for each day; nothing else is changed. Cargo moved between ships at the port (transshipment) is counted when it is unloaded and again when it is loaded, so hub ports show more cargo than passes through their country. The series runs daily from 1 January 2019, with days in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). PortWatch adds new days about once a week, a few days behind, and may revise recent days as late signals arrive. Single days swing with ship arrivals, so totals over a week or a month show the trend more clearly. These are estimates modelled from ship movements, not customs or port records, and can differ from the port's own tonnage statistics.

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Source

International Monetary Fund, PortWatch, Daily Ports Data (New York-New Jersey, port815), with the University of Oxford; AIS data from the UN Global Platform: https://portwatch.imf.org/datasets/83b1bbc7b3354c5fb1f40673bb8f852e_0/about; import plus export, summed by CK Economics — figures as published on 16 October 2026.

All data

2,839 observations, newest first · Metric tons

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PeriodValueChange y/y
Oct 9, 2026190,244−97,334 metric tons
Oct 8, 2026175,067+5,687 metric tons
Oct 7, 2026276,168+9,012 metric tons
Oct 6, 2026155,725−193,959 metric tons
Oct 5, 2026349,725−30,779 metric tons
Oct 4, 2026208,352+100,228 metric tons
Oct 3, 2026396,741+95,907 metric tons
Oct 2, 2026234,150−261,087 metric tons
Oct 1, 202661,582−115,868 metric tons
Sep 30, 2026246,551+10,935 metric tons
Sep 29, 2026434,325+55,242 metric tons
Sep 28, 2026363,096+134,704 metric tons
Sep 27, 2026260,309−7,840 metric tons
Sep 26, 20260−191,858 metric tons
Sep 25, 2026215,874−94,529 metric tons
Sep 24, 2026348,692+263,724 metric tons
Sep 23, 2026133,084−356,330 metric tons
Sep 22, 2026314,587+52,230 metric tons
Sep 21, 2026247,037−165,174 metric tons
Sep 20, 2026374,495+53,486 metric tons
Sep 19, 2026394,420+285,727 metric tons
Sep 18, 2026152,223−331,858 metric tons
Sep 17, 2026217,822−95,071 metric tons
Sep 16, 2026221,487+104,148 metric tons

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