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A new No. 1 leads off this year’s Transport Topics Top 50 list of the world’s largest freight companies.
Get a continent-by-continent and country- by-country look at where the Top 50 Global Freight Companies are based.
Rankings
Airport Data
| Rank | Airport | Location | 2022 Landed Weight (millions of lbs.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ted Stevens Anchorage International | Anchorage, Alaska | 24,265 |
| 2 | Memphis International | Memphis, Tenn. | 23,402 |
| 3 | Louisville Muhammad Ali International | Louisville, Ky. | 18,168 |
| 4 | Los Angeles International | Los Angeles | 11,461 |
| 5 | Miami International | Miami | 10,668 |
| 6 | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International | Hebron, Ky. | 9,237 |
| 7 | Chicago O'Hare International | Chicago | 7,841 |
| 8 | Indianapolis International | Indianapolis | 7,231 |
| 9 | Ontario International | Ontario, Calif. | 5,204 |
| 10 | John F. Kennedy International | Queens, N.Y. | 4,457 |
| 11 | Dallas-Fort Worth International | DFW Airport, Texas | 4,267 |
| 12 | Metro Oakland International | Oakland, Calif. | 3,727 |
| 13 | Chicago/Rockford International | Rockford, Ill. | 3,425 |
| 14 | Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International | Atlanta | 3,356 |
| 15 | Philadelphia International | Philadelphia | 3,252 |
| 16 | Daniel K. Inouye International | Honolulu | 3,221 |
| 17 | Newark Liberty International | Newark, N.J. | 3,028 |
| 18 | Seattle-Tacoma International | Seattle | 2,745 |
| 19 | Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance | Fort Worth, Texas | 2,524 |
| 20 | Portland International | Portland, Ore. | 2,384 |
| 21 | Phoenix Sky Harbor International | Phoenix | 2,255 |
| 22 | George Bush Intercontinental | Houston | 2,254 |
| 23 | Denver International | Denver | 1,806 |
| 24 | Luis Muñoz Marín International | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1,700 |
| 25 | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall | Glen Burnie, Md. | 1,468 |
| 26 | San Bernardino International | San Bernardino, Calif. | 1,333 |
| 27 | Tampa International | Tampa, Fla. | 1,326 |
| 28 | Salt Lake City International | Salt Lake City | 1,266 |
| 29 | Bradley International | Windsor Locks, Conn. | 1,260 |
| 30 | Mexico City International | Mexico City | 1,258 |
| 31 | Orlando International | Orlando, Fla. | 1,243 |
| 32 | General Edward Lawrence Logan International | Boston | 1,165 |
| 33 | San Francisco International | San Francisco | 1,155 |
| 34 | Minneapolis-St. Paul International | Minneapolis | 1,139 |
| 35 | Piedmont Triad International | Greensboro, N.C. | 1,068 |
| 36 | Rickenbacker International | Columbus, Ohio | 1,024 |
| 37 | San Antonio International | San Antonio | 914 |
| 38 | Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County | Detroit | 885 |
| 39 | Lakeland Linder International | Lakeland, Fla. | 857 |
| 39 | Toronto Pearson International* | Toronto | 857 |
| 41 | Charlotte/Douglas International | Charlotte, N.C. | 811 |
| 42 | Laredo International | Laredo, Texas | 808 |
| 43 | Austin-Bergstrom International | Austin, Texas | 796 |
| 44 | El Paso International | El Paso, Texas | 778 |
| 45 | Kansas City International | Kansas City, Mo. | 737 |
| 46 | Raleigh-Durham International | Raleigh, N.C. | 734 |
| 47 | Pittsburgh International | Pittsburgh | 687 |
| 48 | Vancouver International | Vancouver, British Columbia | 667 |
| 49 | Nashville International | Nashville, Tenn. | 654 |
| 50 | Reno/Tahoe International | Reno, Nev. | 651 |
| 51 | San Diego International | San Diego | 649 |
| 52 | Lehigh Valley International | Allentown, Pa. | 643 |
| 53 | Boeing Field/King County International | Seattle | 642 |
| 54 | Richmond International | Highland Springs, Va. | 620 |
| 55 | Sacramento International | Sacramento, Calif. | 614 |
| 56 | Greenville-Spartanburg International | Greer, S.C. | 593 |
| 57 | Jacksonville International | Jacksonville, Fla. | 592 |
| 58 | Manchester-Boston Regional | Londonderry, N.H. | 586 |
| 59 | Albuquerque International Sunport | Albuquerque, N.M. | 577 |
| 60 | Spokane International | Spokane, Wash. | 565 |
| 60 | General Mitchell International | Milwaukee | 565 |
| 62 | Eppley Airfield | Omaha, Neb. | 549 |
| 63 | St. Louis Lambert International | St. Louis | 546 |
| 63 | Columbia Metropolitan | Columbia, S.C. | 546 |
| 65 | Louis Armstrong New Orleans | Kenner, La. | 544 |
| 66 | Billings Logan International | Billings, Mont. | 543 |
| 67 | Washington Dulles International | Dulles, Va. | 521 |
| 68 | Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. | 506 |
| 69 | Sacramento Mather | Mather, Calif. | 493 |
| 70 | Cleveland-Hopkins International | Cleveland | 472 |
| 71 | Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field | Boise, Idaho | 470 |
| 72 | Harrisburg International | Harrisburg, Pa. | 467 |
| 73 | Harry Reid International | Las Vegas | 466 |
| 74 | Ellison Onizuka Kona International at Keahole | Kailua Kona, Hawaii | 459 |
| 75 | Syracuse Hancock International | Syracuse, N.Y. | 436 |
| 76 | Hector International | Fargo, N.D. | 410 |
| 77 | Guadalajara International | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 390 |
| 78 | Kahului | Kahului, Hawaii | 388 |
| 78 | Tulsa International | Tulsa, Okla. | 388 |
| 80 | Lubbock Preston Smith | Lubbock, Texas | 380 |
| 81 | Rafael Hernández | Aguadilla, Puerto Rico | 378 |
| 82 | Joe Foss Field | Sioux Falls, S.D. | 363 |
| 82 | Frederick Douglass-Greater Rochester International | Rochester, N.Y. | 363 |
| 84 | Buffalo Niagara International | Buffalo, N.Y. | 345 |
| 85 | New York Stewart International | Newburgh, N.Y. | 344 |
| 86 | Shreveport Regional | Shreveport, La. | 332 |
| 87 | Huntsville International-Carl T. Jones Field | Huntsville, Ala. | 328 |
| 87 | The Eastern Iowa | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | 328 |
| 89 | McGhee Tyson | Alcoa, Tenn. | 320 |
| 90 | Lihue | Lihue, Hawaii | 305 |
| 91 | Will Rogers World | Oklahoma City | 271 |
| 91 | March ARB | Riverside, Calif. | 271 |
| 91 | Des Moines International | Des Moines, Iowa | 271 |
| 94 | Stockton Metropolitan | Stockton, Calif. | 264 |
| 95 | Guam International | Tamuning, Guam | 256 |
| 95 | Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express | Toledo, Ohio | 256 |
| 97 | Gerald R. Ford International | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 251 |
| 98 | Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National | Wichita, Kan. | 246 |
| 99 | Capital Region International | Township of Clinton, Mich. | 245 |
| 100 | Southwest Georgia Regional | Albany, Ga. | 243 |
| Data for U.S. airports is via the Federal Aviation Administration Air Carrier Activity Information System. Data for Mexican airports is via Mexiconow. Data for Vancouver International Airport is via the airport authority. | |||
| * Data for Toronto Pearson International Airport is for 2021. | |||
2022 saw an eastern shift in North American ocean freight, while airfreight dipped across the continent.
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