List of busiest ports in Europe
The table below lists 20 of the busiest ports in Europe; Rotterdam currently ranks first here, and eleventh in the world by cargo tonnage. For ferries, transport vehicles like heavy trucks are included using their full weight, while passenger cars are not counted as cargo.
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Busiest container ports
The table below lists 20 of the busiest container ports in Europe with the containers counted in TEU.
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Busiest passenger ports
The table below lists 20 of the busiest passenger ports in Europe.
Other large ports in Europe
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Albania
Austria
Belgium
- 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, 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
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
- Brest
- Caen
- Bordeaux
- Cherbourg
- Dieppe
- Dunkirk
- La Rochelle
- Lorient
- Lyon
- Nantes Saint-Nazaire
- Paris
- Rouen
- Strasbourg
- Toulon
Germany
- Port of Duisburg–Ruhrort, largest inland port in Europe.[30]
- Port of Kiel
- Port of Rostock
- Cologne
- Dortmund
- Emden
- Essen
- Frankfurt am Main
- Heidelberg
- Lübeck
- Mannheim
- Regensburg
- Wiesbaden
- Wilhelmshaven
Greece
- Port of Thessaloniki
- Port of Heraklion
- Port of Igoumenitsa
- Port of Rafina
- Port of Patras
- Port of Lavrio
- Port of Souda
- Port of Volos
- Port of Eleusina
- Port of Agioi Theodoroi
- Port of Alexandroupoli
- Port of Aspropyrgos
- Port of Rhodes
- Port of Corfu
- Port of Katakolon
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
- Port of Augusta
- Port of Bari
- Port of Brindisi
- Port of Civitavecchia (Port of Rome)
- Port of Cagliari
- Port of Livorno
- Port of Naples
- Port of Palermo
- Port of Ravenna
- Port of Salerno
- Port of Savona
- Port of Venice
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Montenegro
- Port of Bar, which also serves Serbia
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
- Port of Szczecin-Świnoujście (Port of Szczecin, Port of Świnoujście)
- Port of Gdynia
- Port of Police
- Port of Kołobrzeg
- Port of Elbląg
- Port of Darłowo
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovenia
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[35]
- 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
- Port of Åhus
- Copenhagen Malmö Port (with Denmark)
- Port of Gävle
- Port of Gothenburg
- Port of Halmstad
- Port of Hargshamn
- Port of Härnösand
- Port_of_Helsingborg
- Port of Holmsund
- Port of Kalmar
- Port of Karlshamn
- Port of Köping
- Port of Mönsterås
- Port of Norrköping
- Port of Örnsköldsvik
- Port of Oskarshamn
- Port of Oxelösund
- Port of Piteå
- Simpevarp
- Port of Skellefteå
- Port of Sundsvall
- Port of Stockholm
- Port of Storugns
- Port of Trelleborg
- Port of Västerås
- Port of Västervik
- Port of Visby
- Port of Ystad
Switzerland
- Basel on the Rhine River, the only operational inland port in Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
- Port of Chornomorsk
- Port of Mariupol (occupied by Russia)
- Port of Mykolaiv
- Port of Odesa
- Pivdennyi Port
- Sevastopol (occupied by Russia)
- Yalta (occupied by Russia)
United Kingdom
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Bristol, western England
- Cardiff, South East Wales
- Edinburgh, south-eastern Scotland
- Foyle Port, Northern Ireland
- 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
- Portland Harbour, southern England
- Portsmouth Harbour, southern England is one of the oldest ports in England
Gallery
See also
References
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