Ferries: Freight

(asked on 30th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the UK ports with the infrastructure required to handle roll-on roll-off ferry freight units.


Answered by
Chris Grayling Portrait
Chris Grayling
This question was answered on 6th November 2018

To verify an exhaustive listing of such ports would entail disproportionate cost. However, in 2017 the following UK ports handled substantial volumes of ro-ro ferry units, including domestic traffic:

Dover

Grimsby & Immingham

Liverpool

Holyhead

Belfast

London

Harwich

Heysham

Felixstowe

Portsmouth

Cairnryan

Larne

Loch Ryan

Hull

Teesport

Warrenpoint

Milford Haven

Newhaven

Fishguard

Aberdeen

Poole

Forth

Tyne

Orkney

Southampton

Plymouth

Bristol

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