List of busiest ports in Europe
List of busiest ports in Europe.
Busiest container ports
Ranks for 2011
Location of the largest European sea ports along the so-called Northern Range
| Rank in Europe | Rank in World | Port | City | State | TEU's in 2008[1] | TEU's in 2009[2] | TEU's in 2010[3] | TEU's in 2011[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | Port of Rotterdam | Rotterdam |  Netherlands | 10,783,825 | 9,743,290 | 11,145,804 | 11,876,920 |
| 2 | 14 | Port of Hamburg | Hamburg |  Germany | 9,737,110 | 7,007,704 | 7,895,736 | 9,014,165 |
| 3 | 15 | Port of Antwerp | Antwerp | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium | 8,662,891 | 7,309,639 | 8,468,475 | 8,664,243 |
| 4 | 21 | Port of Bremen-Bremerhaven | Bremerhaven | Germany | 5,488,189 | 4,578,642 | 4,888,655 | 5,915,487 |
| 5 | 26 | Port of Valencia | Valencia |  Spain | 3,602,112 | 3,653,890 | 4,206,937 | 4,327,371 |
| 6 | 30 | Port of Algeciras | Algeciras | Spain | 3,324,310 | 3,043,268 | 2,810,242 | 3,608,301 |
| 7 | 32 | Port of Felixstowe | Felixstowe |  United Kingdom | 3,251,077 | 3,100,000 | 3,400,000 | 3,248,592 |
| 8 | 50 | Port of Petersburg | Saint Petersburg |  Russia | 1,983,110 | 1,341,850 | 1,931,382 | 2,365,174 |
| 9 | 51 | Malta Freeport | Marsaxlokk |  Malta | 2,300,000 | 2,260,000 | 2,260,000 | 2,360,000 |
| 10 | 53 | Port of Gioia Tauro | Gioia Tauro |  Italy | 3,481,043 | 2,857,438 | 2,851,261 | 2,264,798 |
| 11 | 54 | Port of Le Havre | Le Havre |  France | 2,488,654 | 2,240,714 | 2,358,077 | 2,215,262 |
| 12 | 55 | Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge | Zeebrugge (Bruges) | Belgium | 2,209,715 | 2,328,198 | 2,389,879 | 2,207,257 |
| 13 | 60 | Port of Barcelona | Barcelona | Spain | 2,569,549 | 1,800,214 | 1,945,735 | 2,033,747 |
| 14 | 63 | Port of London | London | United Kingdom | 2,006,721 | no data | no data | 1,932,000 |
| 15 | 64 | Port of Dublin | Dublin |  Ireland | 2,039,041 | no data | no data | 1,931,001 |
| 16 | 70 | Port of Genoa | Genoa | Italy | 1,766,605 | 1,533,627 | 1,758,858 | 1,847,648 |
| 17 | N/A | Port of Piraeus | Piraeus |  Greece | 433,582 | 664,895 | 863,808 | 1,680,133 |
| 18 | 86 | Port of Southampton | Southampton | United Kingdom | 1,850,132 | 1,400,000 | 1,540,000 | 1,324,581 |
| 19 | 87 | Port of La Spezia | La Spezia | Italy | 1,246,139 | 1,046,063 | 1,285,455 | 1,307,274 |
| 20 | 89 | Port of Las Palmas | Las Palmas*[5] | Spain | 1,428,944 | 1,007,207 | 1,198,491 | 1,287,389 |
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Port of Bremerhaven
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Port of Saint Petersburg
Busiest ports by cargo tonnage
Ranks for 2011
Busiest transshipment ports
| Rank in Europe | Rank in World | Port | City | State | % Transshipment in 2004[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | Port of Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 40.2 |
| 2 | 9 | Port of Gioia Tauro | Gioia Tauro | Italy | 80.4 |
| 3 | 10 | Port of Algeciras | Algeciras | Spain | 84.7 |
| 4 | 11 | Port of Hamburg | Hamburg | Germany | 32.8 |
| 5 | 16 | Port of Antwerp | Antwerp | Belgium | 23.0 |
Other large ports in Europe
Albania
Belgium
- Port of Ghent - Belgium's 3rd port and 10th port in the Le Havre-Hamburg Range
Bulgaria
- Port of Burgas
- Port of Varna
Croatia
- Port of Split, as of 2011 the port ranks as the largest passenger port in Croatia and the third largest passenger port in the Mediterranean
- Port of Rijeka, with 220,000 passenger, cargo of 10,200,000 and 137,048 TEUs in 2010
Cyprus
- Port of Limassol
- Port of Larnaca
Estonia
France
Germany
- Ports of Duisburg-Ruhrort, largest inland port in Europe
Greece
Ireland
Italy
- Port of Civitavecchia (Port of Rome)
- Port of Cagliari
- Port of Livorno
- Port of Naples
- Port of Pozzallo
Lithuania
Romania
- Port of Constanta - Romania's largest port as well as the largest port on the Black sea
Malta
Norway
- Port of Bergen
- Port of Narvik
- Port of Oslo
- Port of Kristiansand
Poland
- Port of Gdańsk, with cargo of 30,043,000 tons and about 1,150,000 TEUs in 2013 at the Baltic Sea's only deepwater container terminal DCT Gdańsk
- Port of Gdynia
- Port of Szczecin
- Port of Świnoujście
- Port of Police
- Port of Kołobrzeg
Portugal
- Port of Lisbon
- Port of Leixões (Porto), with cargo of 16,607,100 and 632,673 TEUs in 2012
- Port of Sines, with cargo of 37,583,161 ton and 1.227.694 TEUs in 2014
Spain
- Port of A Coruña
- Port of Alicante
- Port of Almería
- Port of Avilés
- Port of Bilbao, with 179,572 passenger, 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 passenger, cargo of 4,620,000 of tons and 428,623 TEUs in 2008[7]
- Port of Melilla
- Port of Motril
- Port of Palma
- Port of Pasajes (Pasaia, Gipuzkoa)
- Port of Santander
- Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife*[5]
- 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[8]
Sweden
Sweden & Denmark
Ukraine
See also
References
- ↑ "AAPA World Port Rankings 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ↑ "World Port Rankings 2009" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "AAPA World Port Rankings 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "World Port Rankings 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife lies in Spain's Canary Islands around Africa.
- ↑ "Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
- ↑ Memoria 2008, Annual Report, Port of Malaga site
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