Shanghai Port — China, People's Republic of

Data refreshed 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z · quarterly refresh cycle

Shanghai, China is a SIP-class port in China, People's Republic of, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 122,404 vessels at last extraction.

122,404 vessels tracked on the day of extraction

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).

Vessel composition by class

Shares below cover vessels with a reported class; the total also includes vessels without one.

Container: 16,846
Dry bulk: 4,216
General cargo: 87,184
RoRo: 4,661
Tanker: 9,497

Share of China, People's Republic of maritime trade

Maritime imports: 4.96%
Maritime exports: 17.46%

Top industries served

  1. Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
  2. Mining and Quarrying
  3. Metal Products

Port record

Coordinates31.1918N, 121.6442E
Port classSIP
ContinentAsia & Pacific

Nearby high-activity ports in China, People's Republic of

Jiangyin · 78,589Nantong · 43,167Qiwei · 36,436

Data provenance

Source query: https://services9.arcgis.com/weJ1QsnbMYJlCHdG/arcgis/rest/services/PortWatch_ports/FeatureServer/1/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=%2A&f=json

Extracted 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z; field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer (geometry omitted). Field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer; point geometry dropped, lat/long kept as attributes.

Port data — Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Reused under the IMF Copyright & Usage terms. Fields subsetted (geometry omitted); see our data sources note. The IMF is not affiliated with and does not endorse ExportSonar.