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

Busiest ports by cargo tonnage[edit]

Numbers in thousand tonnes, data from Eurostat[1]
Rank in
Europe		 Port City Country Sea 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
1 Port of Rotterdam Rotterdam  Netherlands North Sea
409,785
411,855
418,611
436,942
431,944
433,293
441,474
439,633
409,236
434,846
2 Port of Antwerp Antwerp  Belgium North Sea
164,547
171,984
180,401
190,107
198,691
201,202
212,010
214,030
206,319
215,852
3 Port of Hamburg Hamburg  Germany North Sea
113,531
120,568
126,004
120,173
120,323
118,761
117,621
117,152
109,175
111,156
4 Port of Amsterdam Amsterdam  Netherlands North Sea
91,659
92,348
96,289
98,776
96,343
98,517
99,503
103,913
89,474
87,996
5 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain West Med
72,344
67,618
75,650
79,374
83,422
83,465
88,645
89,905
88,497
83,051
6 Port of Marseille Marseille  France West Med
81,846
76,248
74,426
77,479
76,427
75,617
75,672
74,051
71,590
70,089
7 Port of Valencia Valencia  Spain West Med
54,217
53,470
55,047
57,557
58,321
60,116
61,972
65,308
65,628
69,132
8 Port of Bergen Bergen  Norway North Sea
54,627
51,797
42,078
43,569
44,654
48,092
44,314
44,173
58,870
67,231
9 Port of Trieste Trieste  Italy West Med
42,144
45,986
47,265
49,137
49,311
55,165
57,380
60,333
57,837
60,675
10 Port of Le Havre Le Havre  France Channel
59,246
64,395
61,436
62,946
60,033
66,104
64,902
60,172
49,022
57,089
11 Port of Barcelona Barcelona  Spain West Med
34,342
34,372
41,182
38,047
39,142
49,825
54,560
54,709
48,783
53,642
12 Port of Constanța Constanța  Romania Black Sea
31,938
35,650
34,789
36,277
37,521
37,298
39,530
42,195
39,444
49,861
13 Port of Genoa Genoa  Italy West Med
42,453
40,830
43,394
43,426
45,049
50,662
51,570
49,695
44,157
48,212
14 Port of Piraeus Athens  Greece East Med
35,189
40,192
41,441
38,322
41,021
45,202
50,925
56,825
52,421
46,951
15 Port of Bremerhaven Bremerhaven  Germany North Sea
58,250
54,506
53,643
49,753
52,294
49,292
51,160
47,586
46,583
46,815
16 Port of Gdańsk Gdańsk  Poland Baltic Sea
24,379
27,335
28,771
31,685
31,566
33,940
42,438
45,522
40,575
45,020
17 Port of Sines Sines  Portugal Atlantic
27,423
34,600
35,054
41,218
48,056
46,473
44,310
38,907
38,885
42,905
18 Port of Klaipėda Klaipėda  Lithuania Baltic Sea
32,514
30,790
33,773
34,449
36,921
40,027
42,801
42,703
43,678
41,395
19 Port of Dunkirk Dunkirk  France Channel
40,363
36,634
38,919
36,906
36,864
39,085
41,083
42,558
35,085
38,829
20 Port of Gothenburg Gothenburg  Sweden North Sea
41,148
38,380
36,832
37,815
40,974
40,518
40,635
38,891
38,456
36,836
21 Port of Ambarlı Istanbul  Turkey East Med
35,641
39,157
39,940
34,818
31,769
34,817
33,648
33,285
30,630
30,786
22 Port of Wilhelmshaven Wilhelmshaven  Germany North Sea
26,242
24,694
24,099
27,395
24,474
28,210
28,296
28,867
27,797
30,442
23 Port of Tallinn Tallinn  Estonia Baltic Sea
29,151
28,012
28,135
22,255
19,937
18,944
20,369
19,635
21,227
22,324
24 Port of Riga Riga  Latvia Baltic Sea
34,848
34,040
39,808
39,362
35,822
32,106
34,392
30,625
22,085
20,787
25 Port of Taranto Taranto  Italy West Med
35,210
24,496
23,281
18,484
20,982
20,149
20,381
17,609
14,807
17,699
26 Port of Immingham Immingham  United Kingdom North Sea
60,091
62,614
59,370
59,103
54,403
54,034
55,617
54,081
27 Port of London London  United Kingdom North Sea
43,742
43,205
44,489
45,430
50,380
49,868
53,196
54,035
28 Port of Milford Haven Milford Haven  United Kingdom Celtic Sea
39,832
41,105
34,309
37,684
34,768
31,990
30,935
34,951
29 Port of Southampton Southampton  United Kingdom Channel
38,107
35,797
36,688
37,660
36,046
34,471
34,468
33,151
30 Ports of Tees & Hartlepool Teesside  United Kingdom North Sea
33,967
37,641
39,537
35,849
26,873
28,447
28,836
28,156

Busiest container ports[edit]

Numbers in thousand TEUs, Ranks for 2018, data from Eurostat[2][3]
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 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

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 transshipment ports[edit]

Rank in
Europe		 Rank in
world		 Port City Country[4]
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[edit]

Ranks for 2015

Rank in
Europe		 Port City Country Millions of
passengers[5]
1 Port of Dover Dover  United Kingdom
13.1
2 Port of Helsinki Helsinki  Finland
11.2
3 Port of Stockholm 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 Port of Helsingborg Helsingborg  Sweden
7.7
8 Port of Helsingør Helsingør  Denmark
7.6
9 Port of Paloukia Salamina  Greece
7.1
10 Port of Perama Perama  Greece
7.1
11 Port of Messina Messina  Italy
7.0
12 Port of Naples Naples  Italy
6.5
13 Port of Puttgarden Puttgarden  Germany
6.1
14 Port of Rødby Rødby  Denmark
6.1
15 Port of Reggio Reggio Calabria  Italy
6.1
16 Port of Palma de Mallorca Palma de Mallorca  Spain
5.7
17 Port of Algeciras Algeciras  Spain
5.5
18–19 Port of Cirkewwa–Port of Mgarr Malta Island–Gozo  Malta
4.7
20 Port of Capri Capri  Italy
4.4

Other large ports in Europe[edit]

Albania[edit]

Austria[edit]

Belgium[edit]

Bulgaria[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Cyprus[edit]

Denmark[edit]

Estonia[edit]

Finland[edit]

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

Greece[edit]

Hungary[edit]

Iceland[edit]

Ireland[edit]

Italy[edit]

Latvia[edit]

Malta[edit]

Montenegro[edit]

The Netherlands[edit]

[6]

  • Groningen Seaports Eemshaven/ Delfzijl [7]
  • Port of Harlingen [8]
  • Port of Nijmegen [9]
  • Zeeland Seaports (Vlissingen/ Terneuzen), together with Ghent (Belgium) part of North Sea Port [10]

Norway[edit]

Poland[edit]

Portugal[edit]

Romania[edit]

Russia[edit]

Serbia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

Spain[edit]

Sweden[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

Turkey[edit]

Ukraine[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "EU ports still recovering from pandemic disruptions" (PDF).
  2. ^ https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do[bare URL]
  3. ^ "File:Top 20 ports handling containers, 2008-2018 (Thousand TEUs).PNG".
  4. ^ "Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-05.[full citation needed]
  5. ^ "File: Top 20 passenger ports in 2015 - on the basis of number of passengers embarked and disembarked (in 1000).png – Statistics Explained". European Commission.[better source needed]
  6. ^ "Welke zeehavens zijn er in Nederland?".
  7. ^ https://www.groningen-seaports.com/
  8. ^ https://www.portofharlingen.nl/
  9. ^ https://portofnijmegen.nl/
  10. ^ https://www.northseaport.com/
  11. ^ Memoria 2008, Annual Report Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Málaga site
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