Dentro del Ranking de puertos del 2013 para las terminales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, al igual que períodos anteriores, tanto el crecimiento, como ahora la desaceleración y caída de la actividad presenta diferencias, según el país, puertos y terminales.
Freeport (24,8%) y La Habana (10%) son los únicos puertos de contenedores que presentan crecimiento en la región del Caribe.
Los puertos de Itapoá (72,1%) y Chibatão (32,6%) en Brasil son los que registran mayor crecimiento en ese país.
Igual situación de crecimiento se aprecia en Argentina, donde la terminal de Zarate registró un aumento de un 35,8% y Buenos Aires un 7,7%.
Los mayores crecimientos de la región los anotó el puerto de Caldera en Costa Rica con un 246%.
Los puertos chilenos de Angamos (11%), Arica (12,2%), Coronel (135%) y San Antonio (11,9%) anotan cifras positivas.
Las mayores caídas en la actividad la sufrieron los puertos de Sao Francisco do Sul (-37,2%), Vitoria (-30,6%) y Rio de Janeiro (-18,3%) en Brasil, San Vicente (-22,6%) en Chile, Barranquilla (-14,0%) en Colombia, Lázaro Cárdenas (-15,4%) en México y Haina (-19,0%) en República Dominicana.
| Rkg. | Puerto | País | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | Variación 2013/2012 |
| 1 | Colón | Panamá | 3,371,714 | 3,518,672 | 3,374,009 | -4.1% |
| 2 | Santos | Brasil | 2,985,922 | 2,961,426 | 3,221,348 | 8.8% |
| 3 | Balboa | Panamá | 3,232,265 | 3,304,599 | 3,187,387 | -3.5% |
| 4 | Manzanillo | México | 1,762,508 | 1,992,176 | 2,136,157 | 7.2% |
| 5 | Cartagena | Colombia | 1,853,342 | 2,205,948 | 1,987,864 | -9.9% |
| 6 | Callao | Perú | 1,616,165 | 1,817,663 | 1,856,020 | 2.1% |
| 7 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 1,851,687 | 1,656,428 | 1,784,800 | 7.7% |
| 8 | Kingston | Jamaica | 1,756,832 | 1,855,425 | 1,703,949 | -8.2% |
| 9 | Guayaquil | Ecuador | 1,405,762 | 1,448,687 | 1,517,910 | 4.8% |
| 10 | Freeport | Bahamas | 1,116,000 | 1,202,000 | 1,500,000 | 24.8% |
| 11 | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 1,484,595 | 1,423,192 | 1,423,192 | 0.0% |
| 12 | San Antonio | Chile | 928,432 | 1,069,271 | 1,196,844 | 11.9% |
| 13 | Caucedo | Rep.Dominicana | 993,561 | 1,153,787 | 1,083,208 | -6.1% |
| 14 | Limón-Moin | Costa Rica | 901,330 | 1,045,215 | 1,052,079 | 0.7% |
| 15 | Lázaro Cárdenas | México | 953,497 | 1,242,777 | 1,051,183 | -15.4% |
| 16 | Valparaíso | Chile | 973,012 | 942,647 | 910,78 | -3.4% |
| 17 | Veracruz | México | 729,622 | 806,047 | 866,966 | 7.6% |
| 18 | Buenaventura | Colombia | 748,305 | 850,385 | 851,101 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Montevideo | Uruguay | 861,164 | 753,889 | 826,962 | 9.7% |
| 20 | Puerto Cabello | Venezuela | 721,500 | 845,917 | 766,813 | -9.4% |
| 21 | Paranaguá | Brasil | 681,678 | 743,830 | 730,723 | -1.8% |
| 22 | Navegantes | Brasil | 581,493 | 618,434 | 673,139 | 8.8% |
| 23 | Caldera | Costa Rica | 168,039 | 184,315 | 638,096 | 246.2% |
| 24 | Rio Grande | Brasil | 618,039 | 611,133 | 626,095 | 2.4% |
| 25 | Altamira | México | 547,612 | 578,685 | 597,760 | 3.3% |
| 26 | Puerto Cortes | Honduras | 576,752 | 573,322 | 571,408 | -0.3% |
| 27 | Manaus | Brasil | 481,000 | 460,982 | 559,052 | 21.3% |
| 28 | La Guaira | Venezuela | 467,300 | 542,710 | 502,418 | -7.4% |
| 29 | Sto. T. de Castilla | Guatemala | 494,908 | 468,734 | 499,761 | 6.6% |
| 30 | Itapoa | Brasil | 39,544 | 270,415 | 465,323 | 72.1% |
| 31 | San Vicente | Chile | 425,967 | 585,280 | 453,174 | -22.6% |
| 32 | Itajai | Brasil | 438,752 | 385,193 | 402,264 | 4.4% |
| 33 | Suape | Brasil | 417,666 | 393,452 | 395,636 | 0.6% |
| 34 | Coronel | Chile | 170,771 | 167,682 | 394,070 | 135.0% |
| 35 | Puerto Barrios | Guatemala | 317,804 | 365,242 | 389,110 | 6.5% |
| 36 | Port of Spain | Trin. y Tobago | 379,837 | 365,895 | 381,232 | 4.2% |
| 37 | Rio de Janeiro | Brasil | 415,446 | 437,205 | 357,350 | -18.3% |
| 38 | Itaguai /Sepetiba | Brasil | 183,601 | 332,195 | 354,952 | 6.9% |
| 39 | Puerto Quetzal | Guatemala | 363,684 | 324,506 | 322,690 | -0.6% |
| 40 | Haina | Rep.Dominicana | 352,340 | 379,632 | 307,672 | -19.0% |
| 41 | Salvador | Brasil | 242,758 | 251,566 | 273,334 | 8.7% |
| 42 | La Habana | Cuba | 246,773 | 240,000 | 263,886 | 10.0% |
| 43 | Iquique | Chile | 237,758 | 245,290 | 244,565 | -0.3% |
| 44 | Arica | Chile | 170,110 | 182,039 | 204,174 | 12.2% |
| 45 | Jarry | Guadalupe | 165,093 | 211,871 | 198,142 | -6.5% |
| 46 | Oranjestad | Aruba | 169,719 | 167,948 | 191,838 | 14.2% |
| 47 | Vitoria | Brasil | 280,262 | 270,408 | 187,576 | -30.6% |
| 48 | Acajutla | El Salvador | 160,069 | 160,982 | 180,634 | 12.2% |
| 49 | Zárate | Argentina | 107,928 | 132,831 | 180,403 | 35.8% |
| 50 | Port au Prince | Haití | 189,028 | 164,720 | 171,911 | 4.4% |
| 51 | Paita | Perú | 153,653 | 170,855 | 169,662 | -0.7% |
| 52 | Barranquilla | Colombia | 148,093 | 179,652 | 154,505 | -14.0% |
| 53 | Pecem | Brasil | 190,656 | 149,103 | 149,572 | 0.3% |
| 54 | Puerto Angamos | Chile | 158,323 | 134,162 | 148,973 | 11.0% |
| 55 | Ensenada | México | 132,727 | 140,468 | 131,054 | -6.7% |
| 56 | Santa Marta | Colombia | 87,320 | 117,772 | 129,466 | 9.9% |
| 57 | Lirquén | Chile | 314,956 | 143,635 | 126,244 | -12.1% |
| 58 | Paramaribo | Surinam | 97,335 | 103,961 | 108,020 | 3.9% |
| 59 | Antofagasta | Chile | 88,213 | 90,232 | 100,564 | 11.5% |
| 60 | Puerto Castilla | Honduras | 85,892 | 90,586 | 96,438 | 6.5% |
| 61 | Corinto | Nicaragua | 80,075 | 89,537 | 91,868 | 2.6% |
| 62 | Fortaleza | Brasil | 57,011 | 58,928 | 78,256 | 32.8% |
| 63 | Esmeraldas | Ecuador | 66,764 | 86,687 | 77,621 | -10.5% |
| 64 | Bridgetown | Barbados | 77,051 | 72,163 | 74,923 | 3.8% |
| 65 | Sâo Francisco | Brasil | 177,793 | 115,868 | 72,801 | -37.2% |
| 66 | Maracaibo | Venezuela | 58,300 | 75,728 | 71,202 | -6.0% |
| 67 | Guanta | Venezuela | 58,500 | 70,794 | 65,355 | -7.7% |
| 68 | Progreso | México | 61,925 | 64,229 | 64,928 | 1.1% |
| 69 | Georgetown-Cay. | Islas Caimán | 44,766 | 45,400 | 50,610 | 11.5% |
| 70 | Santo Domingo | Rep.Dominicana | 34,382 | 117,355 | 48,757 | -58.5% |
| 71 | Vila do Conde | Brasil | 33,528 | 37,308 | 40,912 | 9.7% |
| 72 | Puerto Plata | Rep.Dominicana | 214,900 | 228,231 | 38,454 | -83.2% |
| 73 | El Guamache | Venezuela | 28,900 | 34,692 | 35,885 | 3.4% |
| 74 | Vieux Fort | Santa Lucia | 33,048 | 45,668 | 35,639 | -22.0% |
| 75 | Natal | Brasil | 19,405 | 27,837 | 35,519 | 27.6% |
| 76 | Rosario | Argentina | 49,819 | 29,532 | 32,239 | 9.2% |
| 77 | Bahía Blanca | Argentina | 31,196 | 27,340 | 31,448 | 15.0% |
| 78 | Castries | Santa Lucia | 29,550 | 29,163 | 28,776 | -1.3% |
| 79 | Mazatlán | México | 22,744 | 39,263 | 28,094 | -28.4% |
| 80 | Punta Arenas | Chile | 27,836 | 32,211 | 26,781 | -16.9% |
