List of busiest ports in Europe

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 Zeebrugge	Zeebrugge	Belgium	North Sea	43,512	42,845	42,501	38,349	37,832	37,120	40,118	45,789	47,008	49,270
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	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
20	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
21	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
22	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
23	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
24	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
25	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
26	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
27	Port of Immingham	Immingham	United Kingdom	North Sea	60,091	62,614	59,370	59,103	54,403	54,034	55,617	54,081
28	Port of London	London	United Kingdom	North Sea	43,742	43,205	44,489	45,430	50,380	49,868	53,196	54,035
29	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
30	Port of Southampton	Southampton	United Kingdom	Channel	38,107	35,797	36,688	37,660	36,046	34,471	34,468	33,151
31	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

Vienna
Linz

Belgium Edit

Port of Ghent
Port of Liège - an inland port

Bulgaria Edit

Croatia 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 Edit

Denmark Edit

Estonia Edit

Finland Edit

Port of Helsinki

France Edit

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

Hungary Edit

Budapest

Iceland Edit

Reykjavik

Ireland Edit

Italy Edit

Latvia Edit

Malta Edit

Montenegro Edit

Port of Bar, which also serves Serbia

The Netherlands Edit

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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

Port of Belgrade

Slovenia Edit

Port of Koper

Spain 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^[11]
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 Edit

Port of İstanbul

Ukraine Edit

United Kingdom Edit

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
Foyle Port, Northern Ireland

References Edit

^ "EU ports still recovering from pandemic disruptions" (PDF).
^ https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do^{[bare URL]}
^ "File:Top 20 ports handling containers, 2008-2018 (Thousand TEUs).PNG".
^ "Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-05.^{[full citation needed]}
^ "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]}
^ "Welke zeehavens zijn er in Nederland?".
^ https://www.groningen-seaports.com/
^ https://www.portofharlingen.nl/
^ https://portofnijmegen.nl/
^ https://www.northseaport.com/
^ Memoria 2008, Annual Report 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Málaga site

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[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] ttps://www.groningen-seaports.com/

[8] ttps://www.portofharlingen.nl/

[9] ttps://portofnijmegen.nl/

[10] ttps://www.northseaport.com/

[11] Memoria 2008, Annual Report 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Málaga site

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