With our headquarters, as well as several freight and logistics hubs in the city, we note that Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) remained the world’s busiest cargo airport in 2025, according to newly released data from Airports Council International (ACI) World, which also showed that the global ranking of top cargo hubs was largely unchanged from the previous year.
The latest ACI World report showed HKG maintaining the top spot for air cargo volumes globally from 2024. The airport has been the consistent top cargo hub for 15 years nos, although it dropped to second in 2020 due to the wide-ranging impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic to global supply chains.
The global trade representative of the world’s airport authorities said HKG remained the world’s busiest air cargo hub in 2025, recording 5.07 million tonnes of cargo last year, up 2.7% from 2024 volumes. It’s also 5.4% higher from the pre-pandemic volume at HKG.
“Air cargo volumes are estimated to have increased by 2.9% year-over-year (almost +8.8% versus 2019), to almost 128.9 million tonnes in 2025,” ACI World said in its latest report, adding that air cargo traffic is more concentrated amongst the main airports.
In 2025, Shanghai Pudong Airport (PVG) took the second spot with 4.09 million tonnes of cargo, up 8.6% year-on-year, maintaining its position from 2024.
Anchorage Airport (ANC) in Alaska rose to third rank from fourth the previous year, recording 3.9 million tonnes of air freight, 4.2% higher than the preceding year. Louisville International Airport (SDF) took the fourth spot with 3.4 million tonnes of cargo, up 13.5% from 2024, one of the highest growth recorded among all the airports on ACI’s top 10 busiest cargo hubs list for 2025.
Miami International Airport (MIA), the busiest airport in the US for international freight, was the world’s 5th busiest air cargo hub, with 3.1 million tonnes of freight recorded in 2025 —13.6% higher than 2024 and a 49.5% jump from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Rounding the top 10 busiest air cargo airports list are Memphis International Airport (MEM), which saw a steep 20.9% drop in air cargo volumes (2.96 million tonnes), Incheon International Airport (2.95 million tonnes), Doha International Airport (2.6 million tonnes), Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (2.5 million tonnes), and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) which recorded 2.4 million tonnes of air cargo.
“The increase is driven by strong e-commerce demand and supply chain adjustments,” ACI World said.
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Hong Kong retains busiest cargo airport title
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