Top 20 European ports by annual cargo tonnage

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by SorinCiprian

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  1. Was expecting to see Pireus here also, guess it’s more of a transit port.

  2. Always surprises me how low the UK (an island) is on this list.

  3. If you compare that with the list of the biggest ports in terms of containers the list changes quite a bit. You can deduce which ones are mainly for raw materials.

  4. Very interesting, and surprising that there’s only one Italian port in the top 20. I assume they have a lot of smaller ports, whereas a country like Romania only has one major sea-port.

  5. On dit merci la CGT pour avoir coulé tout nos ports

  6. Hamburg, city famously on the North Sea 😃

    It’s on a river (Elbe), the sea is more than 100km away!

  7. Wonder why so many Romanians think that us veto ing them from schengen had anything to do with the ports

  8. Counting Le Havre and Paris as a single port sounds a bit dubious – there’s several hundred kms between them.

  9. Was not expecting Murmansk to be so high up. Is it all oil or ore?

  10. Novorossiysk is within the range in which Ukraine has striking capabilities.

  11. First (and presumably the last?) time I’ve ever seen Immingham listed in any sort of international ranking.

  12. Why would they combine the ports of Antwerp and Bruges? They’re 100km apart.

  13. Aren’t 1 and 2 basically just an extension of German in and exports?

  14. Rotterdam and Antwerp together seem to send and receive more together than the entire rest of the continent

  15. Was expecting more UK ports tbh, them being an island nation. Is it just that they have so many ports and thus the tonnage is more spread out?

  16. Is there a reason for Rotterdam to be on top? Is it because you can reload container to train/truck and sent it forward anywhere in continential europe? And the diatance from US is shorter.

  17. Crazy that Novorossisk is 3rd despite Russia being sanctioned and the port being near an active war zone.

  18. I’m honestly surprised with Constanta because I have no idee where that cargo is going, the only highway connection of Constanta is with Bucharest, I guess it’s going by rail ?

  19. Important to include that this is all forms of cargo, so container, bulk, fishing and ferry. the majority of this is driven by bulk tonnage from LNG and raw materials, oil etc. So this is a table showing mostly just that, the centres of bulk sea transportation. for example Rotterdam had 205mt of liquid bulk and 70mt of dry bulk in 2023

  20. Looks like Russia really relies very heavily on those harbors! Would be a shame if something were to happen to their infrastructure

  21. Not seeing any Portuguese port in this list is so sad, once we were the door of Europe where every far away cargo would arrive first and then move to the rest of the continent, but currently not even in the top 20

  22. Where are all those Russian ports and how are they so important?

  23. No wonder the UK gets so many immigrants they have a port for them

  24. We send a lot of kiwi fruit to Tarragona Spain and Bruges Belgium from work here in nz.

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