Public Figures

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Port freight

Ramsgate · January to March 2026

Ramsgate moved 25,243 tonnes of freight in January to March 2026 — the 50th-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.

25,243

tonnes

Freight through Ramsgate, 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 2010, at 505,559 tonnes — 95% 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. 39 ports between
    50thRamsgate25,243 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 Q1969 tonnes505,559 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 Q125,243 tonnes50th
2025 Q434,634 tonnes49th
2025 Q368,005 tonnes48th
2025 Q243,438 tonnes50th
2025 Q124,606 tonnes49th
2024 Q419,312 tonnes49th
2024 Q311,823 tonnes50th
2024 Q215,712 tonnes50th
2024 Q17,926 tonnes50th
2023 Q411,007 tonnes50th
2023 Q315,358 tonnes51st
2023 Q215,864 tonnes51st

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.