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Port of Felixstowe VesselsThe United Kingdom’s Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on freight traffic handled at UK ports in 2005.

These provisional port statistics for 2005 show that:

  • Total freight traffic rose by 8.5 million tonnes (Mt) to 581.6 Mt in 2005, 1.5 per cent up on 2004;
  • Inwards traffic rose by 9.7 Mt to 352.1 Mt, whilst outwards traffic fell by 1.2 Mt to 229.4 Mt;
  • Freight traffic through the 52 major UK ports totalled 565.8 Mt, up 7.6 Mt on 2004. This represented 97 per cent of total UK port freight traffic in 2005;
  • Grimsby and Immingham maintained its position as the UK’s leading port in 2005 with 58.1 Mt (0.4 Mt up on 2004), followed by Tees and Hartlepool with 55.8 Mt (up 2.0 Mt) and London with 53.8 Mt (up 0.6 Mt);

The top ten ports in 2005, in terms of tonnage, were as follows:

Grimsby and Immingham 58.1
Tees and Hartlepool 55.8
London 53.8
Southampton 39.9
Milford Haven 37.4
Forth 34.2
Liverpool 33.8
Felixstowe 23.1
Dover 21.1
Sullom Voe 20.5
Although these statistics for 2005 are still provisional, they clearly show UK’s major sea ports are in good health and growing, especially when it comes to the millions of tons of freight they handle.

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