Public Figures

Britain’s official statistics

Port freight

Rivers Hull and Humber · April to June 2026

Rivers Hull and Humber moved 2.0m tonnes of freight in April to June 2026 — the 13th-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.

2.0m

tonnes

Freight through Rivers Hull and Humber, both directions, April to June 2026

Provisional — the publisher will revise this quarter

That is 1.9% of all freight through UK major ports in April to June 2026.

Its busiest quarter on our record was October to December 2020, at 2.9m tonnes — 32% 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. … 2 ports between
    13thRivers Hull and Humber2.0m 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 Q11.2m tonnes–2.9m 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 Q22.0m tonnes13th
2026 Q12.3m tonnes12th
2025 Q42.4m tonnes11th
2025 Q32.6m tonnes11th
2025 Q22.8m tonnes11th
2025 Q12.5m tonnes11th
2024 Q42.8m tonnes11th
2024 Q32.4m tonnes12th
2024 Q22.8m tonnes11th
2024 Q12.5m tonnes12th
2023 Q42.5m tonnes12th
2023 Q32.5m tonnes11th

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.