List of busiest ports in Europe

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

Busiest container ports

Numbers in thousand TEUs, Ranks for 2018, data from Eurostat[1]
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	Piraeus	Greece	East Med	1,681	2,815	3,199	3,493	3,360	3,736	4,120	4,886	+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 Gdansk	Gdansk	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	Channel	737	687	944	1,059	1,185	1,492	1,375	1,680	+128.0
18	Port of Mersin	Mersin	Turkey	East Med	1,127	1,251	1,367	1,484	1,428	1,406	1,554	1,662	+47.5
19	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
20	Port of Izmit	Izmit	Turkey	East Med	508	630	808	899	989	1,143	1,316	1,598	+214.6

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 ports by cargo tonnage

Ranks for 2011

Rank in Europe	Rank in World	Port	City	Country	Thousands of tons in 2010[2]	Thousands of tons in 2011[3]
1	4	Port of Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Netherlands	429,926	434,551
2	17	Port of Antwerp	Antwerp	Belgium	178,167	187,151
3	26	Port of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany	121,187	132,216
4	38	Port of Amsterdam	Amsterdam	Netherlands	90,644	92,887
5	41	Port of Marseille	Marseille	France	85,997	88,072
6	47	Port of Novorossiysk	Novorossiysk	Russia	81,603	81,050
7	48	Port of Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Germany	68,690	80,585
8	49	Port of Algeciras	Algeciras	Spain	65,531	76,884
9	50	Primorsk	Northwestern Russia, near St. Petersburg	Russia	77,640	75,125
10	54	Port of Le Havre	Le Havre	France	70,469	67,561
11	60	Port of Valencia	Valencia	Spain	63,741	65,475
12	63	Port of Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Russia	57,967	59,990
13	66	Port of Grimsby and Immingham	Grimsby and Immingham	United Kingdom	54,029	57,293
14	76	Port of Bergen	Bergen	Norway	49,870	50,965
15	78	Port of Genoa	Genoa	Italy	50,702	50,393
16	81	Port of Gothenburg	Gothenburg	Sweden	43,875	49,547
17	82	Port of London	London	United Kingdom	48,060	48,796
18	85	Port of Milford Haven	Milford Haven	United Kingdom	42,788	48,699
19	87	Port of Trieste	Trieste	Italy	47,418	48,237
20	88	Port of Dunkirk	Dunkirk	France	42,980	47,516
21	89	Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge	Zeebrugge (Bruges)	Belgium	49,600	46,957
22	90	Port of Constanța	Constanța	Romania	47,563	45,972
23	96	Port of Barcelona	Barcelona	Spain	42,878	43,054
no data	no data	Port of Southampton	Southampton	United Kingdom	39,365	no data

Busiest transhipment ports

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

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	Piraeus	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	Port of Split	Split	Croatia	4.7
19	Port of Mgarr	Gozo	Malta	4.7
20	Port of Cirkewwa	Cirkewwa	Malta	4.7

Other large ports in Europe

Albania

Port of Durrës,
Port of Vlora.

Austria

Vienna
Linz

Belgium

Port of Ghent - an inland port
Port of Liège - an inland port

Bulgaria

Croatia

Port of Split, the largest passenger port in Croatia
Port of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia
Port of Ploče, it serves 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

Denmark

Estonia

Tallinn

France

Finland

Helsinki

Germany

Port of Duisburg-Ruhrort, largest inland port in Europe
JadeWeserPort
Wilhelmshaven, a deepwater port on the North Sea
Cologne
Essen
Frankfurt am Main
Heidelberg
Kiel
Mannheim
Regensburg
Wiesbaden

Greece

Hungary

Budapest

Iceland

Reykjavik

Ireland

Italy

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Port of Belgrade

Slovenia

Port of Koper

Spain

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[6]
Port of Melilla
Port of Motril
Rota, a large Spanish naval base
Port of Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
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

Copenhagen Malmö Port (with Denmark)
Port of Gothenburg
Port of Trelleborg

Switzerland

Basel on the Rhine River, the only operational inland port in Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

Port of Chornomorsk
Port of Mariupol
Port of Mykolayiv
Port of Odessa
Port of Yuzhny
Sevastopol (disputed)
Yalta

United Kingdom

Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bristol, Western England
Cardiff, South East Wales]
Edinburgh, south-eastern Scotland
Glasgow, south-western Scotland
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.
Teesside, north-eastern England
Foyle Port, Northern Ireland

References

https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do
"AAPA World Port Rankings 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
"World Port Rankings 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.
"Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-05.
"File:Top 20 passenger ports in 2015 - on the basis of number of passengers embarked and disembarked (in 1000).png - Statistics Explained". ec.europa.eu.
Memoria 2008, Annual Report Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Malaga site

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[1] ttps://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do

[cms-plus1-2] "AAPA World Port Rankings 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.

[cms-plus2-3] "World Port Rankings 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-08-06.

[4] "Container shipping: Overcapacity inevitable despite increasing demand" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-05.

[5] "File:Top 20 passenger ports in 2015 - on the basis of number of passengers embarked and disembarked (in 1000).png - Statistics Explained". ec.europa.eu.

[6] Memoria 2008, Annual Report Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, Port of Malaga site

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