Maritime Statistics

📖 The Scoop

This survey provides statistics of traffic through the ports of the United Kingdom in 2000, with a detailed breakdown of the traffic through major ports, and ships owned or registered in the UK. Total traffic in 2000 rose 7.4 million tonnes to 573.1 million tonnes, with inward traffic up 3% and outward traffic down by one per cent. The volume of traffic through English and Welsh ports rose by 2% to 363.2 million tonnes, whilst traffic through Scottish ports reached 130.5 million tonnes and traffic through Northern Irish ports reached 21.4 million tonnes. Grimsby and Immingham became the UK's leading port for the first time in 2000, handling 52.5 million tonnes, followed by Tees and Hartlepool with 51.5 million tonnes. London, which had been the leading port for most years since annual port traffic surveys commenced in 1965, came third with 47.9 million tonnes.

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