Seatrade-Maritime: Mexican Port of Manzanillo container volumes up 9.9.% in H1

Published by Seatrade-Maritime

The Port of Manzanillo, on the Mexican Pacific coast, moved 2.07 million teu during the first half of the year, up 9.9% compared to 1.88m teu same period during in 2025. Local operators estimate the containerised cargo will double in the whole year of 2026.

Imports totalled 847,841 teu, just 10,779 teu more than a year earlier, representing an increase of 1.3%. Exports grew by 17.1% whilst transhipment rose by 16.2%.

Exports accounted for 44%, imports for 41% and transhipment operations for 15%, according to the Manzanillo Port System Administration (Asipona) monthly statistics report.

The terminals of SSA Marine Mexico and Contecon Manzanillo saw cargo growing, whilst TIMSA – part of Hutchison Ports – and OCUPA – also part of SSA Marine– saw their market share decline, and several shipping lines significantly altered their share of business at each terminal.

SSA Marine Mexico, the largest operator of Manzanillo, rose from 806,523 to 921,028 teu, up 14.2% and Contecon moved 854,298 teu with a growth of 15.4%. Together, the two terminals added 228,201 teu, a figure higher than the net growth for Manzanillo as a whole. The difference is explained by the declines recorded at TIMSA and OCUPA, which together lost 40,967 teu.

SSA and Contecon increased their combined share from 82.1% to 85.7% while TIMSA and OCUPA reduced theirs from 17.9% to 14.3%.

Three shipping lines accounted for almost 84% of SSA Marine Mexico’s cargo volume. Ocean Network Express’ volume rose to 274,782 teu in 2026, an increase of 22.4% and displaced Hapag-Lloyd as the terminal’s leading shipping line.

Hapag-Lloyd increased by 8.5% to 259,477 teu, while Maersk grew by 19% to 236,383 teu. The three companies together accounted for 770,642 teu, equivalent to 83.7% of SSA’s throughput.