The table below lists 20 of the busiest ports in Europe; Rotterdam currently ranks first here, and eleventh in the world by cargo tonnage. For ferries, transport vehicles like heavy trucks are included using their full weight, while passenger cars are not counted as cargo.
Busiest container ports The table below lists 20 of the busiest container ports in Europe with the containers counted in TEU.
+Top 20 ports of Europe by annual containers TEU Port Country City/Cities Body of water Containers TEU Year Port of Rotterdam Rotterdam North Sea 14,244,954 2025 Port of Antwerp-Bruges Antwerp, Bruges North Sea 2025 Port of Hamburg Hamburg North Sea 2025 Port of Valencia Valencia Mediterranean Sea 2025 Ports of Bremen Bremerhaven, Bremen North Sea 2025 Port of Algeciras Algeciras Mediterranean Sea 2025 Port of Piraeus Piraeus Mediterranean Sea 2025https://www.olp.gr/en/investor-relations/presentations Port of Gioia Tauro Gioia Tauro Mediterranean Sea 2025 Port of Barcelona Barcelona Mediterranean Sea 2025 Port of Felixstowe Felixstowe North Sea 2025Beylikdüzü, IstanbulMarmara Sea3,420,0002025 Port of Le Havre-Rouen-Paris Le Havre, Rouen, Paris English Channel 2025 Port of Genoa Genoa, Pra', Savona, Vado Ligure Mediterranean Sea 2025Port of MarsaxlokkBirżebbuġaMediterranean Sea2025 Port of London London North Sea 2025 Port of Gdańsk Gdańsk Baltic Sea 2025Port of TekirdagTekirdağMarmara Sea2025 Port of Southampton Southampton English Channel 2025 Port of Sines Sines Atlantic Ocean 2025Seaports of NiedersachsenBrake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade, WilhelmshavenNorth Sea2025
Busiest passenger ports The table below lists 20 of the busiest passenger ports in Europe.
+Top 20 ports of Europe by annual number of passengers Port Country City/Cities Body of water Passengers Year Port of Piraeus Piraeus Mediterranean Sea 2025 Port of Messina Messina Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Reggio Reggio Calabria Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Tallinn Tallinn Baltic Sea 2025 Port of Helsinki Helsinki Baltic Sea 2024 Port of Dover Dover English Channel 2024 Port of Naples Naples Mediterranean Sea 2023 Palma de Mallorca Mediterranean Sea 2023 Stockholm Baltic Sea 7,242,032 2024 Port of Calais Calais English Channel 2025https://www.portboulognecalais.fr/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/press-release-_key-figures-2025.pdf Port of Paloukia-Salamina Paloukia, Salamina Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Perama Perama Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Mġarr Mġarr Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Helsingborg Helsingborg Øresund 2024 Port of Helsingør Helsingør Øresund 2023 Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife Atlantic Ocean 2023 Port of Ċirkewwa Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Barcelona Barcelona Mediterranean Sea 2025 Capri Mediterranean Sea 2023 Port of Genoa Genoa, Pra', Savona, Vado Ligure Mediterranean Sea 2025
Other large ports in Europe
Albania Port of Durrës Port of Vlorë Port of Sarandë
Austria Vienna Linz
Belgium Port of Liège - an inland port
Bulgaria Port of Burgas Port of Varna
Croatia Port of Split, the largest passenger port in Croatia Port of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia Port of Ploče, serves mainly Bosnia and Herzegovina Port of Zadar Port of Vukovar, the largest river port in Croatia, on Danube river Port of Osijek, second largest river port in Croatia, on Drava river
Cyprus Port of Limassol Port of Larnaca
Denmark Port of Aarhus Port of Esbjerg Port of Copenhagen
Estonia Port of Pärnu Port of Sillamäe
Finland Port of Helsinki
France Brest Caen Bordeaux Cherbourg Dieppe Dunkirk La Rochelle Lorient Lyon Nantes Saint-Nazaire Paris Rouen Strasbourg Toulon
Germany Port of Duisburg–Ruhrort, largest inland port in Europe. Port of Kiel Port of Rostock Cologne Dortmund Emden Essen Frankfurt am Main Heidelberg Lübeck Mannheim Regensburg Wiesbaden Wilhelmshaven
Greece Port of Thessaloniki Port of Heraklion Port of Igoumenitsa Port of Rafina Port of Patras Port of Lavrio Port of Souda Port of Volos Port of Eleusina Port of Agioi Theodoroi Port of Alexandroupoli Port of Aspropyrgos Port of Rhodes Port of Corfu Port of Katakolon
Hungary Budapest
Iceland Reykjavík
Ireland Port of Cork Dublin Port Rosslare Europort Shannon Foynes Port Port of Waterford
Italy Port of Augusta Port of Bari Port of Brindisi Port of Civitavecchia (Port of Rome) Port of Cagliari Port of Livorno Port of Naples Port of Palermo Port of Ravenna Port of Salerno Port of Savona Port of Venice
Latvia
Freeport of Riga Port of Liepāja Port of Ventspils
Lithuania Port of Klaipėda
Malta Grand Harbour Malta Freeport
Montenegro Port of Bar, which also serves Serbia
Netherlands
Groningen Seaports Eemshaven/ Delfzijl Port of Harlingen Port of Nijmegen
Norway Haugesund Kristiansand Narvik Oslo Porsgrunn Stavanger Tromsø Trondheim
Poland Port of Szczecin-Świnoujście (Port of Szczecin, Port of Świnoujście) Port of Gdynia Port of Police Port of Kołobrzeg Port of Elbląg Port of Darłowo
Portugal Port of Leixões (Porto) Port of Lisbon
Romania Port of Brăila Port of Galați Port of Mangalia Port of Midia Port of Sulina Port of Tulcea
Russia Arkhangelsk Port of Kaliningrad Volgograd
Serbia Port of Belgrade
Slovenia Port of Koper
Spain Port of A Coruña Port of Alicante Port of Almería Port of Avilés Port of Bilbao, with 179,572 passengers, cargo of 39,397,938, and 557,355 TEUs in 2008 Port of Cartagena Port of Cádiz Port of Castellón Port of Ceuta Port of Ferrol Port of Gijón Port of Huelva Port of Málaga, with 642,529 passengers, cargo of 4,620,000 of tons and 428,623 TEUs in 2008Memoria 2008, Annual Report , Port of Málaga site Port of Melilla Port of Motril Rota, a large Spanish naval base Port of Las Palmas (Puerto de la Luz) Port of Pasajes (Pasaia, Gipuzkoa) Port of Santander Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands Port of Seville Port of Tarragona Port of Vigo, the biggest fishing port in the world with 751,971 tons of fish and shellfish in 2008
Sweden
Copenhagen Malmö Port (with Denmark)
Port of Gothenburg Port of Halmstad Port of Hargshamn Port of Härnösand Port_of_Helsingborg Port of Holmsund
Port of Karlshamn Port of Köping Port of Mönsterås
Port of Örnsköldsvik Port of Oskarshamn
Port of Piteå
Port of Storugns Port of Trelleborg Port of Västerås
Port of Ystad
Switzerland Basel on the Rhine River, the only operational inland port in Switzerland
Turkey
Port of İstanbul
Ukraine Port of Chornomorsk Port of Mariupol (occupied by Russia) Port of Mykolaiv Port of Odesa Pivdennyi Port Sevastopol (occupied by Russia) Yalta (occupied by Russia)
United Kingdom Aberdeen, Scotland Belfast, Northern Ireland Bristol, western England Cardiff, South East Wales Edinburgh, south-eastern Scotland Foyle Port, Northern Ireland Glasgow, south-western Scotland Kingston upon Hull, north-eastern England Liverpool, north-western England Manchester via the Manchester Ship Canal to the Irish Sea Newcastle upon Tyne, northeastern England Portland Harbour, southern England Portsmouth Harbour, southern England is one of the oldest ports in England
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See also List of busiest container ports List of busiest ports by cargo tonnage
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