Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Port freight

Felixstowe · April to June 2026

Felixstowe moved 5.7m tonnes of freight in April to June 2026 — the 6th-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 30 September 2026.

5.7m

tonnes

Freight through Felixstowe, both directions, April to June 2026

Provisional — the publisher will revise this quarter

That is 5.7% of all freight through UK major ports in April to June 2026.

Its busiest quarter on our record was April to June 2018, at 7.4m tonnes — 23% above where it is now. The record starts in January to March 2009.

The busiest UK major ports in April to June 2026

  1. 1stLondon14.2m tonnes
  2. 2ndGrimsby and Immingham10.6m tonnes
  3. 3rdLiverpool8.6m tonnes
  4. 4thSouthampton8.1m tonnes
  5. 5thMilford Haven7.3m tonnes
  6. 6thFelixstowe5.7m tonnes
  7. 7thTees and Hartlepool5.5m tonnes
  8. 8thBelfast4.8m tonnes
  9. 9thDover4.6m tonnes
  10. 10thForth4.1m tonnes
  11. 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 Q15.0m tonnes–7.4m tonnes across 70 readings on record2026 Q2

One cell per quarter from 2009 Q1 to 2026 Q2, 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 Q25.7m tonnes6th
2026 Q15.3m tonnes7th
2025 Q45.4m tonnes7th
2025 Q35.5m tonnes7th
2025 Q25.7m tonnes6th
2025 Q16.1m tonnes7th
2024 Q45.6m tonnes7th
2024 Q35.9m tonnes7th
2024 Q25.8m tonnes7th
2024 Q15.8m tonnes7th
2023 Q45.1m tonnes7th
2023 Q36.0m tonnes7th

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.