In 2025, the Port of Busan re-established its own historical record of container traffic having handled a total of 24.88 million TEUs, a volume that represents a increase of +2.0% on the previous year when it was marked the previous maximum peak and which allows the port of call South Korean to confirm its seventh place in the ranking for the 2025 of the world's leading container ports behind the ports of Shanghai, Singapore, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Qingdao and Guangzhou and in front of the ports of Tianjin, Rotterdam and Hong Kong which complete the Top ten in the industry.

Last year, import-export containerized traffic handled by the Port of Busan amounted to 10.8 million TEU, down -1.1% on 2024, while transhipment traffic recorded an increase of +4.4% to 14.1 million TEUs.