United Kingdom - Container port traffic

Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)

The value for Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in United Kingdom was 8,692,260 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 20 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10,313,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 6,434,734 in 2000.

Definition: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.

Source: UNCTAD (http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx)

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Year Value
2000 6,434,734
2001 7,058,054
2002 7,059,610
2003 6,700,066
2004 8,326,913
2005 8,249,587
2006 8,434,458
2007 8,625,102
2008 8,236,523
2009 7,671,300
2010 8,222,000
2011 8,141,000
2012 7,980,000
2013 8,244,000
2014 9,511,000
2015 9,772,000
2016 10,200,000
2017 10,240,000
2018 10,313,000
2019 10,222,500
2020 8,692,260

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Transportation