Port freight
Harwich · January to March 2026
Harwich moved 740,161 tonnes of freight in January to March 2026 — the 25th-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.
740,161
tonnes
Freight through Harwich, both directions, January to March 2026
Provisional — the publisher will revise this quarter
That is 0.7% of all freight through UK major ports in January to March 2026.
Its busiest quarter on our record was July to September 2016, at 1.3m tonnes — 42% above where it is now. The record starts in January to March 2009.
The busiest UK major ports in January to March 2026
- … 14 ports between
- 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
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
| Quarter | Tonnage | Rank among ports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q1 | 740,161 tonnes | 25th |
| 2025 Q4 | 609,368 tonnes | 27th |
| 2025 Q3 | 652,542 tonnes | 27th |
| 2025 Q2 | 887,709 tonnes | 23rd |
| 2025 Q1 | 874,046 tonnes | 25th |
| 2024 Q4 | 952,094 tonnes | 23rd |
| 2024 Q3 | 920,246 tonnes | 24th |
| 2024 Q2 | 965,684 tonnes | 22nd |
| 2024 Q1 | 900,031 tonnes | 24th |
| 2023 Q4 | 1.1m tonnes | 22nd |
| 2023 Q3 | 1.0m tonnes | 21st |
| 2023 Q2 | 1.1m tonnes | 22nd |
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.