Trade lane · 2025-08..2026-07
US ports trading with South Africa
- 85Published ports
- $18.17bnTotal value
- $7.34bnBy vessel
- $3.59bnIn containers
South Africa (ZA) appears on 85 of this desk’s published port pages, carrying $18,165,396,996 across the window (2025-08 to 2026-07), 40.4% of it by vessel. Vessel cargo weighed 4.35bn kg.
Imports and exports
- imports $11.54bn total · $3.26bn by vessel · $1.45bn in containers
- exports $6.63bn total · $4.09bn by vessel · $2.13bn in containers
Ports carrying the lane
- NEWARK, NJ $1.16bn
- HOUSTON, TX $1.06bn
- NEW ORLEANS, LA $1.01bn
- BALTIMORE, MD $616.5m
- CHARLESTON, SC $535.7m
- NEW YORK, NY $515m
- CHICAGO, IL $451m
- BROWNSVILLE, TX $335.1m
- BRUNSWICK, GA $332.7m
- SAVANNAH, GA $277.5m
- NORFOLK-NEWPORT NEWS, VA $261.6m
- MOBILE, AL $260m
The 12 ports carrying the most value, of 85 published ports this lane reaches.
Other trade lanes
The partner countries either side of this one in the desk's own alphabetical list.
- Saint Lucia 36
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 24
- Saudi Arabia 84
- Senegal 45
- Serbia 53
- Sierra Leone 39
- Singapore 100
- Sint Maarten 30
- Slovakia 70
- Slovenia 70
- South Korea (Republic of Korea) 120
- Spain 112
- Sri Lanka 58
- Suriname 38
- Sweden 102
- Switzerland 87
- Taiwan 116
- Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) 41
- Thailand 112
- Togo 37
Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.
Vessel and containerized figures are the U.S. Census Bureau’s own mode-of-transport split of each port × commodity × country cell in its monthly Port HS6 Database, summed over the window named on the page; port and country names are the Census’s Schedule D district/port and Schedule C country lists. No figure here is an estimate and no berth or terminal is named: the source’s finest geographic key is the four-digit Schedule D port.