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UK DfT port freight statistics

Quarterly major-port tables (for example PORT0502 and PORT0503) running from 2009, plus annual releases, with the 2025 annual release published on GOV.UK. The collection also links commercially sourced shipping-fleet world tables, which this entry does not cover; only the free, official port-freight tables are in scope here.

Open gov.uk
Signal Scoredraft model
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Access
No key · none
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Licence clarity
OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked
20
Evidence
4 source links checked
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Freshness
verified 2026-11-05
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
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Access
none
Free tier
Keyless ODS, CSV and zip downloads from GOV.UK statistical data sets and statistics pages; no account needed.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note
UK DfT port freight tables are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which allows commercial reuse with attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." The shortlisted port-freight-monthly-datasets URL returns a 404 as of this check; use the statistical-data-sets and statistics collection pages instead. The same maritime-and-shipping-statistics collection also links commercially sourced shipping-fleet world tables, which are out of scope for this entry.
Attribution
"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-05

  1. 01www.gov.uk/government/collections/maritime-and-shipping-statistics
  2. 02www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/port-and-domestic-waterborne-freight-statistics-port
  3. 03www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2025
  4. 04www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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