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Port freight quarterly statistics: April to June 2020

Provisional quarterly statistics on freight handled by UK major ports for April to June 2020.

From:
Department for Transport
Published
9 September 2020

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Port Freight Quarterly Statistics: April to June 2020

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Details

When comparing April to June 2020 with April to June 2019 through UK major ports:

  • total volume of freight tonnage decreased by 18% to 96.1 million tonnes
  • inward tonnage decreased by 21% to 60.1 million tonnes
  • outward tonnage decreased by 13% to 36.0 million tonnes
  • total volume of unitised traffic decreased by 44% to 3.2 million units
  • inward units decreased by 45% to 1.7 million units
  • outward units decreased by 43% to 1.6 million units

When comparing the rolling year to June 2020 with June 2019 through UK major ports:

  • total tonnage decreased by 6% to 447.7 million tonnes
  • total volume of unitised traffic decreased by 16% to 20.0 million units

Detailed final annual statistics for 2020 will be published in summer 2021.

Further analysis on the quarterly port freight trend can be found in the HTML report, comparing current levels against variation seen in the historical data, as well as against DfT port freight forecasts.

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Published 9 September 2020

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