List of busiest ports in Europe

Numbers in thousand TEUs, Ranks for 2018, data from Eurostat[1][2]

Rank in Europe	Port	City	Country	Sea	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	% Change 2011/2018
1	Port of Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Netherlands	North Sea	11,340	11,418	11,021	11,634	11,577	11,675	12,892	13,598	+19.9
2	Port of Antwerp	Antwerp	Belgium	North Sea	8,317	8,174	8,256	8,812	9,370	9,891	10,032	10,830	+30.2
3	Port of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany	North Sea	9,035	8,891	9,302	9,775	8,848	8,929	8,860	8,741	-3.3
4	Port of Bremen-Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Germany	North Sea	5,911	6,111	5,822	5,731	5,467	5,510	5,458	5,442	-7.9
5	Port of Valencia	Valencia	Spain	West Med	4,332	4,471	4,328	4,407	4,609	4,693	4,814	5,169	+19.3
6	Port of Piraeus	Athens	Greece	East Med	1,681	2,815	3,199	3,493	3,360	3,736	4,120	4,910	+190.7
7	Port of Algeciras	Algeciras	Spain	West Med	3,593	4,113	3,988	4,555	4,516	4,762	4,381	4,773	+32.8
8	Port of Gioia Tauro	Gioia Tauro	Italy	West Med	3,307	3,725	3,652	3,708	3,030	3,796	3,391	4,005	+21.1
9	Port of Felixstowe	Felixstowe	United Kingdom	North Sea	3,249	3,368	3,434	4,072	4,043	4,016	4,160	3,781	+16.4
10	Port of Barcelona	Barcelona	Spain	West Med	2,006	1,745	1,717	2,056	1,950	2,225	2,998	3,442	+71.6
11	Port of Ambarli	Istanbul	Turkey	East Med	2,625	3,024	3,318	3,445	3,062	2,781	3,123	3,170	+20.8
12	Port of Le Havre	Le Havre	France	Channel	2,222	1,997	2,186	2,433	2,560	2,480	2,799	2,866	+29.0
13	Port of Genoa	Genoa	Italy	West Med	1,277	1,578	1,546	2,014	2,079	2,356	2,332	2,554	+100.0
14	Port of Southampton	Southampton	United Kingdom	Channel	1,591	1,489	1,489	1,894	1,956	2,040	2,008	1,970	+23.8
15	Port of Sines	Sines	Portugal	Atlantic	447	553	931	1,228	1,332	1,513	1,669	1,750	+291.5
16	Port of Gdańsk	Gdańsk	Poland	Baltic	685	933	1,189	1,232	1,041	1,559	1,473	1,736	+153.4
17	Port of London	London	United Kingdom	North Sea	737	687	944	1,059	1,185	1,492	1,375	1,680	+128.0
18	Port of Mersin	Mersin	Turkey	East Med	1,127	1,251	1,367	1,484	1,428	1,406	1,554	1,662	+47.5
19	Port of La Spezia	La Spezia	Italy	West Med	1,205	1,181	1,207	1,262	1,579	1,605	1,612	1,653	+37.2
20	Port of Izmit	Izmit	Turkey	East Med	508	630	808	899	989	1,143	1,316	1,598	+214.6

There are a number of other major ports on the Mediterranean and the Baltic with levels of container traffic which would place them in the Top 20 table above, such as Saint Petersburg, Russia, but they are omitted since they are located in countries that do not contribute to the Eurostat statistics from which the table has been produced.

Ranks for 2011

Rank in Europe	Rank in World	Port	City	Country	Thousands of tons in 2010[3]	Thousands of tons in 2011[4]
1	4	Port of Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Netherlands	429,926	434,551
2	17	Port of Antwerp	Antwerp	Belgium	178,167	187,151
3	26	Port of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany	121,187	132,216
4	38	Port of Amsterdam	Amsterdam	Netherlands	90,644	92,887
5	41	Port of Marseille	Marseille	France	85,997	88,072
6	47	Port of Novorossiysk	Novorossiysk	Russia	81,603	81,050
7	48	Port of Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Germany	68,690	80,585
8	49	Port of Algeciras	Algeciras	Spain	65,531	76,884
9	50	Primorsk	Northwestern Russia, near St. Petersburg	Russia	77,640	75,125
10	54	Port of Le Havre	Le Havre	France	70,469	67,561
11	60	Port of Valencia	Valencia	Spain	63,741	65,475
12	63	Port of Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	Russia	57,967	59,990
13	66	Port of Grimsby and Immingham	Grimsby and Immingham	United Kingdom	54,029	57,293
14	76	Port of Bergen	Bergen	Norway	49,870	50,965
15	78	Port of Genoa	Genoa	Italy	50,702	50,393
16	81	Port of Gothenburg	Gothenburg	Sweden	43,875	49,547
17	82	Port of London	London	United Kingdom	48,060	48,796
18	85	Port of Milford Haven	Milford Haven	United Kingdom	42,788	48,699
19	87	Port of Trieste	Trieste	Italy	47,418	48,237
20	88	Port of Dunkirk	Dunkirk	France	42,980	47,516
21	89	Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge	Zeebrugge (Bruges)	Belgium	49,600	46,957
22	90	Port of Constanța	Constanța	Romania	47,563	45,972
23	96	Port of Barcelona	Barcelona	Spain	42,878	43,054
no data	no data	Port of Southampton	Southampton	United Kingdom	39,365	no data

Rank in Europe	Rank in World	Port	City	Country[5]
1	7	Port of Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Netherlands
2	9	Port of Gioia Tauro	Gioia Tauro	Italy
3	10	Port of Algeciras	Algeciras	Spain
4	11	Port of Hamburg	Hamburg	Germany
5	16	Port of Antwerp	Antwerp	Belgium
6	17	Port of Sines	Sines	Portugal

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  Port of Rotterdam
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  Port of Hamburg
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  Port of Antwerp
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  Port of Bremerhaven
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  Malta Freeport
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  Port of Sines
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  Port of Barcelona

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  Port of Valencia
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  Port of Algeciras
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  Port of Felixstowe
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  Port of Saint Petersburg
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  Port of Novorossiysk
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  Port of Genoa

Ranks for 2015

Rank in Europe	Port	City	Country	Millions of Passengers[6]
1	Port of Dover	Dover	United Kingdom	13.1
2	Port of Helsinki	Helsinki	Finland	11.2
3	Port of Stockholm	Stockholm	Sweden	9.9
4	Port of Calais	Calais	France	9.8
5	Port of Tallinn	Tallinn	Estonia	9.3
6	Port of Piraeus	Athens	Greece	8.2
7	Port of Helsingborg	Helsingborg	Sweden	7.7
8	Port of Helsingør	Helsingør	Denmark	7.6
9	Port of Paloukia	Salamina	Greece	7.1
10	Port of Perama	Perama	Greece	7.1
11	Port of Messina	Messina	Italy	7.0
12	Port of Naples	Naples	Italy	6.5
13	Port of Puttgarden	Puttgarden	Germany	6.1
14	Port of Rødby	Rødby	Denmark	6.1
15	Port of Reggio	Reggio Calabria	Italy	6.1
16	Port of Palma de Mallorca	Palma de Mallorca	Spain	5.7
17	Port of Algeciras	Algeciras	Spain	5.5
18	Port of Split	Split	Croatia	4.7
19	Port of Mgarr	Gozo	Malta	4.7
20	Port of Cirkewwa	Cirkewwa	Malta	4.7

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