List of ports in Great Britain


This is a list of the seaports of Great Britain.

Major operators

Five companies own many of the largest of UK ports: Associated British Ports, Forth Ports, Hutchison Port Holdings, Peel Group and PD Ports, and the largest independent trust ports are Aberdeen, Belfast, Blyth, Dover, London and Milford Haven.
All of these port operators are members of the British Ports Association, the national trade body for ports and harbours, and publish trade statistics for HM Revenue and Customs.
Some of these ports will be converted to Free-ports: special economic zones where customs rules such as taxes do not apply until goods leave the port.

Major ports

Ports are listed clockwise from the Scottish border.

North-eastern England

[Yorkshire and the Humber]

[The Wash] and East Anglia

[Thames Estuary] and Kent

South Coast (including Isle of Wight)

West Country

[Bristol Channel] (England)

[Bristol Channel] (Wales)

Wales (west and north)

Northwest England

Southwest Scotland

Northwest Scotland

Northeast Scotland

Southeast Scotland