Talk:List of ports in the United States

Huntington?
How does Huntington, West Virginia qualify as a port city? Besides being counterintuitive, I see nothing about the "port" of Huntington in the article on that city. Looks like bullcrap to me, but I'll wait a while for someone to explain. . .Unschool (talk) 07:11, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Huntington is a river port, with a fleet of barges handling coal and petroleum products. The port activities are described in the article at Huntington,_West_Virginia. A standard definition of a [port includes anywhere that ships load and unload - the article on [[port]]s also specifically includes river ports as well as inland ports. Euryalus (talk) 08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, I get it now. I'm going to have to make a cerebral adjustment, though.  Unschool (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Source
I have reason to believe the source used for this article is incorrect. Many of the cargo tonnages are highly inflated from what I can find on the individual ports themselves. Can we have a second opinion?

Norfolk
Doesn't Norfolk, VA have a port? I don't see it listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.227.153 (talk) 19:29, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Update to information
The main reference for the tonnage for this list of ports is a few years old, from 2004, and the link no longer works anyway. I found this reference for 2008; perhaps, if no one leaps forward to volunteer, I'll work on this when I can. Northumbrian (talk) 04:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and created this subpage to hold the new table as I update it before publication to the article page. Northumbrian (talk) 23:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a 2010 update to this list. The 2008 list was never made live. -- MicahDCochran (talk) 19:19, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * There is even more up todate information available at http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=900 sadly I don;t have time to include it right now. Lot   49a talk 01:13, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


 * This needs updating again. The 2016 list appears to be the latest on the AAPA Port Industry Statistics website. Elriana (talk) 20:57, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't have time to update, but this appears to be the source with the necessary information. Kstern (talk) 01:53, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Here is the 2020 Data. https://usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16021coll2/id/7447
 * I updated the top 50. I don't have the time right now to put in the next 100. Dpieski (talk) 22:21, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Port of New York City / New Jersey
New York Harbor has always figured as one the very top ports in the USA. Not even in the top 149 now or what? I've been to both NYC and Vicksburg, Mississippi recently and find it impossible to believe NYC is suddenly handling less cargo than that steamboat port. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.126.241 (talk) 03:05, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Elsewhere on Wikipedia the Port of New York and New Jersey is described as the nation's third largest port, and the largest port on the East Coast. So I think someone needs to fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.110.212.132 (talk) 20:16, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


 * New York Harbor is part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, which is currently 3rd on this list (~133 million short tons per year in 2016). Note that as New Orleans and Southern Louisiana have recovered from hurricane Katrina over the last 10+ years, their volume of cargo has increased significantly. With room to expand along the Mississippi River and serving the entire central US, it would not surprise me if New Orleans (~90 million short tons in 2016) surpassed New York and New Jersey eventually.Elriana (talk) 21:05, 17 January 2018 (UTC)