The table below lists 20 of the busiest ports in Europe; Rotterdam currently ranks first here, and eleventh in the world by cargo tonnage. For ferries, transport vehicles like heavy trucks are included using their full weight, while passenger cars are not counted as cargo.
Busiest container ports
editThe table below lists 20 of the busiest container ports in Europe with the containers counted in TEU.
Busiest passenger ports
editThe table below lists 20 of the busiest passenger ports in Europe.
Other large ports in Europe
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Albania
editAustria
editBelgium
edit- Port of Ghent
- Port of Liège - an inland port
Bulgaria
editCroatia
edit- Port of Split, the largest passenger port in Croatia
- Port of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia
- Port of Ploče, serves mainly Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Port of Zadar
- Port of Vukovar, the largest river port in Croatia, on Danube river
- Port of Osijek, second largest river port in Croatia, on Drava river
Cyprus
editDenmark
editEstonia
editFinland
editFrance
edit- Brest
- Caen
- Bordeaux
- Cherbourg
- Dieppe
- La Rochelle
- Lorient
- Lyon
- Nantes Saint-Nazaire
- Paris
- Rouen
- Strasbourg
- Toulon
Germany
edit- Port of Duisburg-Ruhrort, largest inland port in Europe
- Port of Kiel
- Port of Rostock
- Cologne
- Dortmund
- Emden
- Essen
- Frankfurt am Main
- Heidelberg
- Lübeck
- Mannheim
- Regensburg
- Wiesbaden
Greece
edit- Port of Thessaloniki
- Port of Heraklion
- Port of Igoumenitsa
- Port of Rafina
- Port of Patras
- Port of Lavrio
- Port of Souda
- Port of Volos
- Port of Eleusina
- Port of Agioi Theodoroi
- Port of Alexandroupoli
- Port of Aspropyrgos
- Port of Rhodes
- Port of Corfu
- Port of Katakolon
Hungary
editIceland
editIreland
editItaly
edit- Port of Augusta
- Port of Bari
- Port of Brindisi
- Port of Civitavecchia (Port of Rome)
- Port of Cagliari
- Port of Livorno
- Port of Palermo
- Port of Ravenna
- Port of Salerno
- Port of Savona
- Port of Venice
Latvia
editLithuania
editMalta
editMontenegro
edit- Port of Bar, which also serves Serbia
The Netherlands
edit- Groningen Seaports Eemshaven/ Delfzijl[24]
- Port of Harlingen[25]
- Port of Nijmegen[26]
- Zeeland Seaports (Vlissingen/ Terneuzen), together with Ghent (Belgium) part of North Sea Port[27]
Norway
editPoland
edit- Port of Szczecin-Świnoujście (Port of Szczecin, Port of Świnoujście)
- Port of Gdynia
- Port of Police
- Port of Kołobrzeg
- Port of Elbląg
- Port of Darłowo
Portugal
editRomania
editRussia
edit- Port of Kaliningrad
- Archangelsk
- Sevastopol (disputed)
- Volgograd
Serbia
editSlovenia
editSpain
edit- Port of A Coruña
- Port of Alicante
- Port of Almería
- Port of Avilés
- Port of Bilbao, with 179,572 passengers, cargo of 39,397,938, and 557,355 TEUs in 2008
- Port of Cartagena
- Port of Cádiz
- Port of Castellón
- Port of Ceuta
- Port of Ferrol
- Port of Gijón
- Port of Huelva
- Port of Málaga, with 642,529 passengers, cargo of 4,620,000 of tons and 428,623 TEUs in 2008[28]
- Port of Melilla
- Port of Motril
- Rota, a large Spanish naval base
- Port of Las Palmas (Puerto de la Luz)
- Port of Pasajes (Pasaia, Gipuzkoa)
- Port of Santander
- Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
- Port of Seville
- Port of Tarragona
- Port of Vigo, the biggest fishing port in the world with 751,971 tons of fish and shellfish in 2008
Sweden
edit- Copenhagen Malmö Port (with Denmark)
- Port of Trelleborg
Switzerland
edit- Basel on the Rhine River, the only operational inland port in Switzerland
Turkey
editUkraine
edit- Port of Chornomorsk
- Port of Mariupol
- Port of Mykolaiv
- Port of Odesa
- Pivdennyi Port
- Sevastopol (disputed)
- Yalta
United Kingdom
edit- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Bristol, western England
- Cardiff, South East Wales
- Edinburgh, south-eastern Scotland
- Foyle Port, Northern Ireland
- 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
- Portland Harbour, southern England
- Portsmouth Harbour, southern England is one of the oldest ports in England
Gallery
editSee also
editReferences
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- ^ a b "Port of Antwerp-Bruges cargo volumes in tonnes down 5.5% to 271 million tonnes in 2023". PortNews. 2024-01-11.
- ^ a b c d e "Russian seaports cargo volume rose 5% Y/Y to 883.8 million tonnes in 2023 (expanded version)". PortNews. 2024-01-19.
- ^ a b "Statistics". Port of Hamburg. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ a b "The Port of Algeciras Grows by 2%". Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras. 2023-01-17.
- ^ "Ukraine grain pushes Romanian Constanta port to record volumes in 2023". Reuters. 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b "HAROPA PORT's maritime traffic down by 4.5% to 81.3Mt in 2023". PortNews. 2024-01-30.
- ^ a b "Facts and figures". Port Gdańsk. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Valenciaport traffic down by 2.81% to 76,746,424 tonnes in 2023". PortNews. 2024-02-01.
- ^ "In a Global Context of Decline, the Port of Marseille Fos Remains on Course and is Making Record Investments" (PDF). Port de Marseille Fos. 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Bergen Havn Årsmelding 2022" [Port of Bergen Annual Report 2022] (PDF). Bergen Havn (in Norwegian). p. 8. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ a b "Port of Barcelona handles 3.3 million TEUs in 2023". Container News. 2024-02-26.
- ^ "Annual report 2023: Amsterdam port in full transition". Port of Amsterdam. 23 April 2024. Archived from the original on 27 July 2024.
- ^ "In 2023, cargo traffic in the port of Trieste decreased by -3.4%". inforMARE. 2024-01-24.
- ^ a b c d e "PORT0301: Freight traffic by port and year (filter by direction and cargo type)" (ODS). GOV.UK. 2024-07-17.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Volume of containers handled in the top 20 EU main ports by loading status". Eurostat. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "2023 Business Performance Highlights - Luka Koper d.d." www.luka-kp.si. 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ^ "Klaipėda Port: the Year of 2023 Were More Successful Than Expected". Klaipėda Port. 2024-01-29.
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- ^ "Welke zeehavens zijn er in Nederland?".
- ^ "Groningen Seaports - Havenbeheerder Delfzijl Eemshaven".
- ^ "Port of Harlingen: Het maritieme & logistieke hart van Noord-Nederland". Port of Harlingen.
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- ^ "Startpagina". North Sea Port.
- ^ Memoria 2008, Annual Report Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Málaga site