Port exposure · 2025-08..2026-07
CHARLESTON, SC
- $91.41bnTotal value
- $82.15bnBy vessel
- $69.89bnIn containers
- $2.15bnBy air
CHARLESTON, SC is Schedule D port 1601, in the CHARLESTON, SC district. Over 12 months the Census published $91,414,491,453 of trade into and out of it — 89.9% of that value moved by vessel. Vessel cargo weighed 22.5bn kg, of which 16.85bn kg moved in containers. The value sits across 3,820 HS6 commodity codes (counting a code traded both ways on each side) and 156 partner-country lanes.
Both directions
- imports $60.41bn total · $58.36bn by vessel · $55.3bn in containers
- exports $31.01bn total · $23.79bn by vessel · $14.59bn in containers
By month
- 2025-08 $8.71bn total · $8.12bn by vessel
- 2025-09 $7.96bn total · $7.2bn by vessel
- 2025-10 $7.19bn total · $6.67bn by vessel
- 2025-11 $6.66bn total · $6.27bn by vessel
- 2025-12 $8.04bn total · $6.52bn by vessel
- 2026-01 $6.63bn total · $5.84bn by vessel
- 2026-02 $6.29bn total · $5.81bn by vessel
- 2026-03 $8.23bn total · $7.65bn by vessel
- 2026-04 $7.68bn total · $7.03bn by vessel
- 2026-05 $8.15bn total · $7.41bn by vessel
- 2026-06 $8.11bn total · $6.97bn by vessel
- 2026-07 $7.76bn total · $6.67bn by vessel
Partner countries
- Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) $17.34bn
- China $8.6bn
- India $4.35bn
- Vietnam $4.31bn
- South Korea (Republic of Korea) $3.81bn
- Japan $3.4bn
- Brazil $2.88bn
- Belgium $2.86bn
- United Kingdom $2.82bn
- Taiwan $2.15bn
The 10 partner countries carrying the most value, of 156 this port traded with in the window.
Commodity chapters
- HS2 84 $14.21bn total · $14.19bn by vessel · $13.74bn in containers
- HS2 87 $8.68bn total · $8.68bn by vessel · $786.3m in containers
- HS2 85 $7.41bn total · $7.35bn by vessel · $7.22bn in containers
- HS2 88 $6.98bn total · $170m by vessel · $107.1m in containers
- HS2 87 $5.47bn total · $5.37bn by vessel · $4.91bn in containers
- HS2 39 $3.41bn total · $3.41bn by vessel · $3.29bn in containers
- HS2 30 $2.89bn total · $2.89bn by vessel · $2.89bn in containers
- HS2 39 $2.33bn total · $2.15bn by vessel · $2.13bn in containers
- HS2 40 $2.21bn total · $2.21bn by vessel · $2.2bn in containers
- HS2 29 $2.2bn total · $2.2bn by vessel · $1.76bn in containers
The 10 chapters carrying the most value, of 191 chapters with trade through this port. All 191 come to $91.41bn.
Other ports on this desk
The ports either side of this one in the desk's own alphabetical list.
- BOSTON, MA 2,500
- BRIDGEPORT,CT 32
- BROWNSVILLE, TX 2,397
- BRUNSWICK, GA 602
- BUFFALO-NIAGARA FALLS, NY 4,569
- CALAIS, ME 2,004
- CAMBRIDGE, MD 13
- CAPITAN, CA 8
- CARQUINEZ STRAIT,CA 19
- CHAMPLAIN-ROUSES POINT, NY 3,982
- CHARLOTTE AMALIE, VI 375
- CHESTER, PA 1,882
- CHICAGO, IL 4,254
- CHRISTIANSTED, VI 82
- CLEVELAND, OH 3,802
- COOS BAY, OR 7
- CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 118
- CROCKETT,CA 7
- DETROIT, MI 4,261
- DULUTH, MN-SUPERIOR, WI 105
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.