PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(8 July 2025)

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.

Asked by:
Pippa Heylings (Liberal Democrat)

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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