Montenegro: Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Montenegro's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) fell 50.8% on 2023 (from 35,085 to 17,263).

Across the 9 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2023), the average change was +0.6% and a typical year strayed about 33.4% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 44.8% in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 63.4% in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 8 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2024, Montenegro had the 103rd highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Montenegro in the 2024 ranking

• Cayman Islands — 100th of 103: 46,658
• Antigua and Barbuda — 101st of 103: 28,000
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 102nd of 103: 24,416

What this measures

Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes, and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Limitations: Measures of port container traffic, much of it commodities of medium to high value added, give some indication of economic growth in a country. But when traffic is merely transshipment, much of the economic benefit goes to the terminal operator and ancillary services for ships and containers rather than to the country more broadly. In transshipment centers empty containers may account for as much as 40 percent of traffic. Data cover coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.

All 13 values

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in nearby economies

• Albania — 184,017 (2023)
• Austria — 285,900 (2017)
• Belgium — 12.4 million (2024)
• Bulgaria — 296,350 (2024)
• Croatia — 532,451 (2024)
• Cyprus — 386,498 (2024)
• Denmark — 935,848 (2024)
• Estonia — 261,822 (2024)
• Faroe Islands — 31,214 (2019)
• Finland

More infrastructure data for Montenegro

• Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 35.54% (2024)
• Scientific and technical journal articles — 254.67 (2023)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions — 1.42 million (2024)
• Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 221.69 (2024)
• Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 88.88% (2024)
• Railways, passengers carried (million passenger-km) — 27.8 (2020)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions — 192,212 (2024)
• Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 30.1 (2024)
• ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$193.63 million (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Montenegro's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)?

17,263 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2010?

It is down 37.45% from 27,600 in 2010 (3.3% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 43,732 in 2017 and the lowest 15,744 in 2019.

How does Montenegro rank?

103rd highest of 103 economies with data for 2024.

Is the latest change in container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) unusual for Montenegro?

In 2024, Montenegro's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) fell 50.8% on 2023 (from 35,085 to 17,263). Across the 9 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2023), the average change was +0.6% and a typical year strayed about 33.4% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator IS.SHP.GOOD.TU, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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