National statistics

Port freight quarterly statistics: October to December 2018

Provisional quarterly statistics on freight handled by UK major ports for October to December 2018.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 13 March 2019

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Port freight quarterly statistics: October to December 2018 data tables

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Details

Statistics on freight handled at major UK sea ports for October to December 2018.

When comparing October to December 2018 with October to December 2017:

• total freight tonnage through UK major ports increased by 6% to 121.8 million tonnes
• inward tonnage to UK major ports increased by 10% to 79.5 million tonnes

• outward tonnage fell by 1% to 42.3 million tonnes

• total volume of unitised traffic through UK major ports fell by 2% to 5.5 million units
• inward units held steady at 2.9 million units and outward units fell by 3% to 2.7 million units

When comparing the rolling year to December 2018 with December 2017:

• total tonnage through UK major ports marginally decreased to 470.0 million tonnes
• total volume of unitised traffic decreased 2% to 23.6 million units

Detailed final annual statistics for 2018 will be published in summer 2019.

Technical notes about these statistics is available, including:

• background information on quarterly port freight statistics
• notes and definitions for all port freight statistics

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Published 13 March 2019