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Port freight

Cromarty Firth · January to March 2026

Cromarty Firth moved 31,644 tonnes of freight in January to March 2026 — the 49th-busiest of the 53 UK major ports that quarter, on provisional figures.

Read from the Department for Transport’s PORT0502 table, in the vintage we archived on 11 August 2026.

31,644

tonnes

Freight through Cromarty Firth, both directions, January to March 2026

Provisional — the publisher will revise this quarter

That is 0.0% of all freight through UK major ports in January to March 2026.

Its busiest quarter on our record was October to December 2009, at 1.2m tonnes — 97% above where it is now. The record starts in January to March 2009.

The busiest UK major ports in January to March 2026

  1. 1stLondon13.1m tonnes
  2. 2ndMilford Haven12.9m tonnes
  3. 3rdGrimsby and Immingham10.5m tonnes
  4. 4thSouthampton8.1m tonnes
  5. 5thLiverpool8.0m tonnes
  6. 6thTees and Hartlepool5.7m tonnes
  7. 7thFelixstowe5.3m tonnes
  8. 8thDover5.1m tonnes
  9. 9thBelfast4.7m tonnes
  10. 10thForth4.1m tonnes
  11. 38 ports between
    49thCromarty Firth31,644 tonnes
  12. out of 53 UK major ports reporting that quarter

Tonnage in both directions, as published. “Major port” is the publisher’s own unit, and some of them are more than one place: Grimsby and Immingham are counted together, as are Tees and Hartlepool.

Every quarter on record

2009 Q121,536 tonnes1.2m tonnes across 69 readings on record2026 Q1

One cell per quarter from 2009 Q1 to 2026 Q1, shaded from this port’s own quietest quarter to its busiest. Quarters the publisher marked as not applicable are left blank rather than read as zero.

The last three years, quarter by quarter

QuarterTonnageRank among ports
2026 Q131,644 tonnes49th
2025 Q427,060 tonnes50th
2025 Q321,536 tonnes50th
2025 Q260,045 tonnes49th
2025 Q141,367 tonnes48th
2024 Q494,610 tonnes47th
2024 Q3182,454 tonnes41st
2024 Q2191,380 tonnes41st
2024 Q1213,495 tonnes41st
2023 Q494,403 tonnes46th
2023 Q357,090 tonnes50th
2023 Q2102,120 tonnes46th

How these figures are read

Figures are tonnage in both directions, in thousand tonnes as published and shown here in tonnes. The publisher’s own four-quarter totals and percentage-change columns are not used: every comparison on this page is calculated from the quarters themselves.

The publisher marks this quarter provisional. Provisional quarters are revised, and when they are, the change is logged in our corrections log.