List of busiest ports in Europe

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Location of the largest European seaports along the so-called Northern Range

Busiest container ports[]

Numbers in thousand TEUs, Ranks for 2018, data from Eurostat[1][2]
Rank in
Europe		 Port City Country Sea 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 % Change
2011/2018
1 Port of Rotterdam Rotterdam  Netherlands North Sea
11,340
11,418
11,021
11,634
11,577
11,675
12,892
13,598
+19.9
2 Port of Antwerp Antwerp  Belgium North Sea
8,317
8,174
8,256
8,812
9,370
9,891
10,032
10,830
+30.2
3 Port of Hamburg Hamburg  Germany North Sea
9,035
8,891
9,302
9,775
8,848
8,929
8,860
8,741
-3.3
4 Port of Bremen-Bremerhaven Bremerhaven  Germany North Sea
5,911
6,111
5,822
5,731
5,467
5,510
5,458
5,442
-7.9
5 Port of Valencia Valencia  Spain West Med
4,332
4,471
4,328
4,407
4,609
4,693
4,814
5,169
+19.3
6 Port of Piraeus Athens  Greece East Med
1,681
2,815
3,199
3,493
3,360
3,736
4,120
4,910
+190.7
7 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain West Med
3,593
4,113
3,988
4,555
4,516
4,762
4,381
4,773
+32.8
8 Port of Gioia Tauro Gioia Tauro  Italy West Med
3,307
3,725
3,652
3,708
3,030
3,796
3,391
4,005
+21.1
9 Port of Felixstowe Felixstowe  United Kingdom North Sea
3,249
3,368
3,434
4,072
4,043
4,016
4,160
3,781
+16.4
10 Port of Barcelona Barcelona  Spain West Med
2,006
1,745
1,717
2,056
1,950
2,225
2,998
3,442
+71.6
11 Port of Ambarli Istanbul  Turkey East Med
2,625
3,024
3,318
3,445
3,062
2,781
3,123
3,170
+20.8
12 Port of Le Havre Le Havre  France Channel
2,222
1,997
2,186
2,433
2,560
2,480
2,799
2,866
+29.0
13 Port of Genoa Genoa  Italy West Med
1,277
1,578
1,546
2,014
2,079
2,356
2,332
2,554
+100.0
14 Port of Southampton Southampton  United Kingdom Channel
1,591
1,489
1,489
1,894
1,956
2,040
2,008
1,970
+23.8
15 Port of Sines Sines  Portugal Atlantic
447
553
931
1,228
1,332
1,513
1,669
1,750
+291.5
16 Port of Gdańsk Gdańsk  Poland Baltic
685
933
1,189
1,232
1,041
1,559
1,473
1,736
+153.4
17 Port of London London  United Kingdom North Sea
737
687
944
1,059
1,185
1,492
1,375
1,680
+128.0
18 Port of Mersin Mersin  Turkey East Med
1,127
1,251
1,367
1,484
1,428
1,406
1,554
1,662
+47.5
19 Port of La Spezia La Spezia  Italy West Med
1,205
1,181
1,207
1,262
1,579
1,605
1,612
1,653
+37.2
20 Izmit  Turkey East Med
508
630
808
899
989
1,143
1,316
1,598
+214.6

There are a number of other major ports on the Mediterranean and the Baltic with levels of container traffic which would place them in the Top 20 table above, such as Saint Petersburg, Russia, but they are omitted since they are located in countries that do not contribute to the Eurostat statistics from which the table has been produced.

Busiest ports by cargo tonnage[]

Ranks for 2011

Rank in
Europe		 Rank in
World		 Port City Country Thousands
of tons
in 2010[3]		 Thousands
of tons
in 2011[4]
1 4 Port of Rotterdam Rotterdam  Netherlands 429,926
434,551
2 17 Port of Antwerp Antwerp  Belgium 178,167
187,151
3 26 Port of Hamburg Hamburg  Germany 121,187
132,216
4 38 Port of Amsterdam Amsterdam  Netherlands 90,644
92,887
5 41 Port of Marseille Marseille  France 85,997
88,072
6 47 Port of Novorossiysk Novorossiysk  Russia 81,603
81,050
7 48 Port of Bremerhaven Bremerhaven  Germany 68,690
80,585
8 49 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain 65,531
76,884
9 50 Port of Primorsk Primorsk  Russia 77,640
75,125
10 54 Port of Le Havre Le Havre  France 70,469
67,561
11 60 Port of Valencia Valencia  Spain 63,741
65,475
12 63 Port of Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg  Russia 57,967
59,990
13 66 Port of Grimsby and Immingham Grimsby and Immingham  United Kingdom 54,029
57,293
14 76 Port of Bergen Bergen  Norway 49,870
50,965
15 78 Port of Genoa Genoa  Italy 50,702
50,393
16 81 Port of Gothenburg Gothenburg  Sweden 43,875
49,547
17 82 Port of London London  United Kingdom 48,060
48,796
18 85 Port of Milford Haven Milford Haven  United Kingdom 42,788
48,699
19 87 Port of Trieste Trieste  Italy 47,418
48,237
20 88 Dunkirk  France 42,980
47,516
21 89 Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge Zeebrugge (Bruges)  Belgium 49,600
46,957
22 90 Port of Constanța Constanța  Romania 47,563
45,972
23 96 Port of Barcelona Barcelona  Spain 42,878
43,054
no data no data Port of Southampton Southampton  United Kingdom 39,365 no data

Busiest transhipment ports[]

Rank in
Europe		 Rank in
World		 Port City Country[5]
1 7 Port of Rotterdam Rotterdam  Netherlands
2 9 Port of Gioia Tauro Gioia Tauro  Italy
3 10 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain
4 11 Port of Hamburg Hamburg  Germany
5 16 Port of Antwerp Antwerp  Belgium
6 17 Port of Sines Sines  Portugal

Busiest passenger ports[]

Ranks for 2015

Rank in
Europe		 Port City Country Millions of
Passengers[6]
1 Port of Dover Dover  United Kingdom
13.1
2 Port of Helsinki Helsinki  Finland
11.2
3 Stockholm  Sweden
9.9
4 Port of Calais Calais  France
9.8
5 Port of Tallinn Tallinn  Estonia
9.3
6 Port of Piraeus Athens  Greece
8.2
7 Helsingborg  Sweden
7.7
8 Helsingør  Denmark
7.6
9 Salamina  Greece
7.1
10 Perama  Greece
7.1
11 Port of Messina Messina  Italy
7.0
12 Port of Naples Naples  Italy
6.5
13 Puttgarden  Germany
6.1
14 Rødby  Denmark
6.1
15 Port of Reggio Reggio Calabria  Italy
6.1
16 Palma de Mallorca  Spain
5.7
17 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain
5.5
18 Port of Split Split  Croatia
4.7
19 Gozo  Malta
4.7
20 Cirkewwa  Malta
4.7

Other large ports in Europe[]

Albania[]

Austria[]

  • Vienna
  • Linz

Belgium[]

Bulgaria[]

Croatia[]

Cyprus[]

Denmark[]

Estonia[]

Finland[]

France[]

Germany[]

Greece[]

Hungary[]

  • Budapest

Iceland[]

  • Reykjavik

Ireland[]

Italy[]

Latvia[]

  • Port of Riga

Lithuania[]

Malta[]

Montenegro[]

Norway[]

Poland[]

Portugal[]

Romania[]

Russia[]

Serbia[]

Slovenia[]

Spain[]

Sweden[]

Switzerland[]

  • Basel on the Rhine River, the only operational inland port in Switzerland

Turkey[]

Ukraine[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Bristol, Western England
  • Cardiff, South East Wales
  • Edinburgh, south-eastern Scotland
  • Glasgow, south-western Scotland
  • Kingston upon Hull, north-eastern England
  • Liverpool, north-western England
  • Manchester via the Manchester Ship Canal to the Irish Sea
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, northeastern England
  • Portsmouth Harbour, southern England is one of the oldest ports in England
  • Portland Harbour, England.
  • Southampton, England.
  • Teesside, north-eastern England
  • Foyle Port, Northern Ireland

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do
  2. ^ https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=File:Top_20_ports_handling_containers,_2008-2018_(thousand_TEUs).png
  3. ^ "AAPA World Port Rankings 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  4. ^ "World Port Rankings 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
  5. ^ "Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  6. ^ "File:Top 20 passenger ports in 2015 - on the basis of number of passengers embarked and disembarked (in 1000).png - Statistics Explained". ec.europa.eu.
  7. ^ Memoria 2008, Annual Report Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Málaga site
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