The largest ports in the United States by tonnage include the Port of Houston, Port of South Louisiana, and Port of Beaumont, with the Port of Houston being the largest. The top container ports by TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) in 2024 are the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, and Port of New York and New Jersey.

DULUTH, MINNESOTA

In 1908, just prior to the opening of the Panama Canal, Duluth Minnesota was the busiest port on the Great Lakes, and among the top ports in the United States, exceeding even New York in commodities tonnage and other measures. https://t.co/o9KYo2BiWL pic.twitter.com/XTgeRAlx6E

— Vince Mpls (@vincempls) December 11, 2025

PORT OF LOS ANGELES/LONG BEACH

Live look at the Port of Los Angeles, the busiest port in the United States.

There's no traffic thanks to Donald Trump and his ridiculous trade wars and tariffs.

🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/N5MJdD8obx

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) April 28, 2025

Liberals say our ports are empty due to tariffs

This woman works at the Port of Long Beach, California. This is the 2nd largest Container Port in the United States

She shows cargo ships full of containers and trucks lined up to receive the shipments as far as the eyes can see pic.twitter.com/iGdshFwPvC

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 8, 2025

STOCKTON, CA

STOCKTON:

This is one of our biggest ports. It could be FOUR TIMES bigger, creating thousands more jobs…

…but of course, because it’s Democrat-run California, it’s being blocked by insane, pointless government bloat and bureaucracy. pic.twitter.com/u7ixImAMrQ

— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) May 31, 2025

INTERCOASTAL WATERWAYS 

The Intercoastal Waterway turns virtually the entire southeastern coast of the US into a single giant harbor. If it wasn’t for the Jones Act and other dumb regulations we could have massive container ports in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Idaho, etc. pic.twitter.com/82ufQi7uk5

— Kostoglotov (@abdalhaqq_) January 23, 2026

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA WATER PORT

.@RepMTG Is there anything that you do know? Seriously! Port of Savannah is not the third-largest port in the United States by overall tonnage. Ports like Houston, South Louisiana, and Corpus Christi rank higher in total trade tonnage.

Secondly, your claim that there is no…

— Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 (@4HumanUnity) July 23, 2024

GREAT LAKES RIVER SYSTEM 

1) Mississippi River System

Largest naturally navigable waterway in the world by far.

You can sail from the Gulf of Mexico to Minnesota.

And transportation by water is 10x-30x cheaper.

So US goods get an unfair advantage.

Inland places like Pittsburg have clear ocean access! pic.twitter.com/RBgDgXRZAP

— Michael Girdley (@girdley) September 30, 2023