Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

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Table 9.2 Foreign and domestic freight traffic at (major) Scottish ports 1

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

thousand tonnes

Foreign

Imports

6,623 |

10,822

17,467

11,427

9,501

14,995

17,024

17,909

14,612

16,106

13,532

Exports

67,222 |

73,194

67,003

67,783

58,903

54,454

45,002

43,994

45,581

42,416

38,321

Total

73,845 |

84,016

84,470

79,208

68,404

69,447

62,025

61,903

60,193

58,521

51,853

Domestic

Inwards

15,652 |

17,276

13,510

18,795

18,068

15,947

16,572

14,680

14,138

9,611

7,670

Outwards

34,641 |

25,640

21,588

20,088

19,998

21,023

26,395

21,039

23,482

23,975

22,558

Total

50,293 |

42,916

35,098

38,882

38,068

36,970

42,967

35,718

37,619

33,586

30,228

Total - major ports only

124,137 |

126,933

119,568

118,090

106,472

106,417

104,992

97,621

97,812

92,108

82,081

Total - all ports

130,100

130,512

123,820

122,156

110,535

110,444

108,890

101,587

101,952

96,346

85,547

1. The Foreign and Domestic figures refer to major ports only. There were seven major ports in 1996, eight major ports in 1997 and 1998, nine in 1999 and 11 in 2000 onwards so the figures for different years are not directly comparable.

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