Port of Felixstowe: Freight

(asked on 8th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the freight throughput was in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) passing through Felixstowe port in the most recent 12 months for which data are available; and how many and what proportion of those TEUs were transported out of the port by rail by destination distribution centre in the same period.


Answered by
Mike Kane Portrait
Mike Kane
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 14th July 2025

Container throughput passing through Felixstowe port in the calendar year 2023 was 3.246 million TEU.

Source: DfT Port Freight Statistics 2023. Data for the 2024 will be published 30th July 2025.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6698eaf1fc8e12ac3edaff36/port0203.ods

The Department for Transport does not periodically collect data on hinterland movement of freight from seaports and therefore cannot provide the proportion of TEU that was transported out of the port by rail by destination distribution centre in the same period.

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