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Charleston Port — United States

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

Charleston, United States is a SIP-class port in United States, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 1,766 vessels at last extraction.

1,766 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: 1,205

Dry bulk: 85

General cargo: 116

RoRo: 239

Tanker: 119

Share of United States maritime trade

Maritime imports: 1.64%

Maritime exports: 1.08%

Top industries served

Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
Wood and Paper
Mining and Quarrying

Port record

Coordinates	32.8993N, -79.9212E
UN/LOCODE	US CHS
Port class	SIP
Continent	North America

Nearby high-activity ports in United States

Houston · 7,040 New Orleans · 5,144 New York-New Jersey · 3,835

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.