Department for Transport publishes PORT data tables on waterborne freight

The UK Department for Transport has published a new release of its Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics data tables, titled Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: data tables (PORT). The item is dated 10 September 2026 and presents data on the international and domestic movement of freight by water.

The tables are produced and issued by the Department for Transport, which the publication identifies as the responsible government department. The dataset is described by the Department as providing statistics for freight moved both internationally and within domestic UK waters.

The release comprises data tables rather than a narrative report, reflecting the Department's focus on providing primary statistical material. The title of the release makes clear that the coverage includes port-related activity together with domestic waterborne freight.

Officials at the Department have presented the item as a statistical resource. The publication date on the document is 10 September 2026, which is the date attached to the release by the Department for Transport.

Taken at face value, the material is the Department's official set of tables for tracking freight transported by water, covering movements that are international in origin or destination and movements that occur on domestic routes.

Scope of the tables

The material is identified in the title as covering port and domestic waterborne freight. That description indicates the tables set out data relating to freight moved by water in both international and domestic contexts, as published by the Department for Transport.

As a collection of statistical tables, the release is presented as source data rather than interpretative analysis. The Department's framing points to provision of the raw figures and tabulations necessary for further analysis by users of the statistics.

Release details and official attribution

The Department for Transport is named as the producing organisation on the published item. The formal title supplied by the Department is Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: data tables (PORT), and the document carries the Department's date of 10 September 2026.

The tables are therefore the Department's official statistical tables for waterborne freight as published on that date.

The publication is presented as a data resource for those seeking primary figures on the movement of freight by water, with the Department for Transport as the issuing body.