Port of Shanghai — Daily Port Calls

Methodology

The number of ships that call at the Port of Shanghai each day: container ships, dry bulk carriers, general cargo ships, roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships and tankers. 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. The port is PortWatch's "Shanghai" (port1188), within the boundary PortWatch draws for it. 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). 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. Values are as PortWatch publishes them (portcalls, the sum of the five vessel types).

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Source

International Monetary Fund, PortWatch, Daily Ports Data (Shanghai, port1188), with the University of Oxford; AIS data from the UN Global Platform: https://portwatch.imf.org/datasets/83b1bbc7b3354c5fb1f40673bb8f852e_0/about — figures as published on 16 October 2026.