Last month, the Port of Singapore handled 53.1 million of tons of goods, with an increase of +5.4% on October 2024. Containerized goods alone amounted to 31.2 million of tons (+1.0%) and were made with a containers amounting to over 3.8 million TEUs (+9.2%). More marked increase in conventional goods with 2.8 million tons (+21.5%) as well as the growth of bulk cargo oil and other types of oil and other products respectively stood at 16.3 million tons (+12.3%) and 2.7 million tons (+4.2%).

In the first ten months of 2025, the Port of Singapore handled 512.7 million tons of cargo globally, with a decrease of -1.3% on the same period last year. In Containerized traffic decreased to 305.0 million tons (-1.7%) totalled with container handling of 37.0 million TEUs (+8.2%). Conventional goods amounted to 25.7 million tons (+17.3%). Oil bulk was equal to 155.5 million tonnes (-3.9%) and those of other type at 26.4 million tons (+4.4%).

The port of Hong Kong, which for twenty years has lost its role as a world's leading port hub for container traffic that in previously contended in Singapore, closed the first ten months of this year with a containerized traffic of 10.7 million TEU, with a decrease of -5.2%. In the month of October alone, the Chinese port handled almost 1.1 million TEUs (-6,9%).