Statistical data set: Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: data tables (PORT)

Data about the international and domestic movement of freight by water, produced by Department for Transport.

Published: 06 June 2024
By Chris Haycock

The department has been made aware of issues with the roll-on, roll-off figures for Harwich in 2021 and Hull in 2022. These will be revised with 2023 annual figures in summer 2024.

Number of passengers on vessels are available in the sea passenger data collection.

Port and domestic waterborne freight table index

Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: table index (ODS, 28.9 KB)

All port traffic totals: major and minor

PORT0101: All freight tonnage traffic by port and year (filter by direction) (ODS, 1010 KB)

PORT0102: All freight tonnage traffic, international and domestic by direction and year (ODS, 56.4 KB)

PORT0103: All unitised freight traffic by cargo type and year (ODS, 50.6 KB)

PORT0104: All main freight units traffic by route and year (ODS, 122 KB)

Major port traffic by cargo type

PORT0201: Freight traffic cargo types by year (filter by direction and route) (ODS, 257 KB)

PORT0202: Unitised freight traffic cargo types by year (filter by direction and route) (ODS, 316 KB)

PORT0203: Unitised main freight traffic by port, cargo type, metric and loaded status (filter by direction and year) (ODS, 537 KB)

Major port traffic by route

PORT0204: International freight traffic by route and cargo type (filter by direction and year) (ODS, 3.91 MB)

PORT0205: Freight traffic by top routes and year (sort by year, filter by cargo type and direction) (ODS, 4.8 MB)

PORT0206: Freight traffic by top 30 routes for each cargo type (sort by direction, filter by cargo type and year) (ODS, 2.81 MB)

Port level statistics

PORT0301: Freight traffic by port and year (filter by direction and cargo type) (ODS, 2.26 MB)

PORT0302: Freight traffic by port and route (filter by direction, cargo type and year) (ODS, 9.57 MB)

PORT0303: Freight traffic by top 30 UK ports for each cargo type (sort by direction, filter by year, cargo type) (ODS, 2.78 MB)

PORT0304: Map of UK ports by tonnage and direction, for major ports over 2 million tonnes (ODS, 36.9 MB)

PORT0400: Individual UK major port freight traffic by cargo type and route (filter by port and year) (ODS, 3.48 MB)

PORT0499: UK major port freight traffic: port level downloadable dataset (ODS, 9.66 MB)

Quarterly trends

From December 2023, we have discontinued PORT0501 from the quarterly port freight statistics due to low user engagement. PORT0501 presented tonnage and unit totals at the national level as indices. National level tonnage and unit totals will remain available in PORT0502.

Following user feedback, the department are trialling publishing estimates of cargo group alongside the quarterly Port Freight Statistics, in a proposed third quarterly table PORT0503.

This new data is regarded as Experimental Statistics, awaiting user feedback and further quality assurance to provide timely estimates. You can provide feedback about this change by filling in this form. We continue to welcome any feedback on any aspect of the port freight statistics (see contact details).

PORT0502:

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