Port and logistics

One of the UK’s leading foreign-trading ports, The Port of Hull handles in excess of 12m tonnes of cargo each year. It forms part of the Humber Ports complex which ranks fourth largest in Northern Europe.

Each year nearly one million passengers take advantage of P&O Ferries nightly sailings from Hull to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.

Regular short sea services operate from the general cargo port to Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic States and the port also benefits from worldwide deep sea connections.

Hull is the UK’s leading softwood timber-handling port regularly handling more than 1.5m cubic metres of timber.

More importantly around 16,000 jobs in the city relate in some way to port activity which makes the port of Hull a key economic driver.

The port of Hull is owned and operated by Associated British Ports (ABP).

Visit the Associated British Ports website to find out more about the Port of Hull