List of ports in Great Britain

This is a list of the seaports of Great Britain.

Major operators
Five companies own many of the largest of UK ports: Associated British Ports (ABP), Forth Ports, Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Peel Group and PD Ports’ meanwhile the largest independent trust ports are Aberdeen, Belfast, Blyth, Dover, London and Milford Haven.

All of these port operators are members of the British Ports Association, the national trade body for ports and harbours, and publish trade statistics for HM Revenue and Customs.

Some of these ports will be converted to Free-ports: special economic zones where customs rules such as taxes do not apply until goods leave the port.

Major ports
Ports are listed clockwise from the Scottish border.

North-eastern England

 * Berwick-upon-Tweed
 * Warkworth
 * Blyth
 * Port of Tyne, South Shields
 * Sunderland Docks, Sunderland
 * Seaham
 * Hartlepool
 * Teesport, Middlesbrough
 * Redcar
 * Middlesbrough

Yorkshire and the Humber

 * Whitby
 * Scarborough
 * Bridlington
 * Port of Hull, Kingston upon Hull
 * Port of Goole, Goole
 * Grimsby
 * Port of Immingham, Immingham

The Wash and East Anglia

 * Boston
 * Fosdyke
 * Port of Wisbech, Wisbech
 * Sutton Bridge
 * King's Lynn
 * Wells-next-the-Sea
 * Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour, Great Yarmouth
 * Port of Lowestoft, Lowestoft
 * Southwold
 * Port of Felixstowe, Felixstowe
 * Port of Ipswich, Ipswich
 * Mistley
 * Harwich International Port, Harwich

Thames Estuary and Kent

 * Brightlingsea
 * Rochford, River Roach, Wallasea Island
 * Port of London (includes Port of Tilbury)
 * Sheerness
 * Whitstable
 * Sandwich
 * Port of Ramsgate
 * Port of Dover, Dover
 * Folkestone
 * Rye Harbour

South Coast (including Isle of Wight)

 * Newhaven
 * Shoreham-by-Sea
 * Portsmouth International Port, Portsmouth
 * Newport, Isle of Wight
 * Port of Southampton, Southampton
 * Cowes
 * Lymington

West Country

 * Port of Poole
 * Portland Harbour
 * Bridport Harbour, Bridport
 * Exmouth
 * Teignmouth
 * Torquay
 * Brixham
 * Dartmouth
 * Plymouth
 * Fowey
 * Par
 * Charlestown
 * Penryn
 * Falmouth Docks, Falmouth
 * Newlyn
 * Penzance
 * Hugh Town
 * St Ives, Cornwall
 * Padstow
 * Appledore, Torridge, Devon

Bristol Channel (England)

 * Bideford
 * Barnstaple
 * Watchet
 * Port of Bridgwater, Bridgwater
 * Port of Bristol, Bristol
 * Avonmouth Docks, Avonmouth
 * Sharpness
 * Gloucester

Bristol Channel (Wales)

 * Newport Docks, Newport
 * Cardiff Docks, Cardiff
 * Barry Docks, Barry
 * Port of Port Talbot, Port Talbot
 * Swansea Docks, Swansea
 * Burry Port

Wales (west and north)

 * Milford Haven Port, Milford Haven
 * Fishguard Harbour, Fishguard
 * Caernarfon harbour
 * Port of Holyhead, Holyhead
 * Mostyn
 * Shotton

Northwest England

 * Birkenhead
 * Port of Manchester, Manchester
 * Port Salford, Salford
 * Port of Garston, Garston
 * Port of Liverpool, see also List of Liverpool Docks
 * Preston
 * Fleetwood
 * Heysham Port, Heysham
 * Lancaster
 * Port of Barrow, Barrow-in-Furness
 * Whitehaven
 * Workington
 * Maryport
 * Silloth

Southwest Scotland

 * Palnackie
 * Irvine Harbour
 * Stranraer
 * Girvan
 * Hunterston
 * Glasgow
 * Islay
 * Lochaline
 * Oban
 * Greenock

Northwest Scotland

 * Ullapool
 * Stornoway

Northeast Scotland

 * Scrabster
 * Stromness
 * Lerwick
 * Kirkwall
 * Scalloway
 * Invergordon
 * Inverness
 * Wick
 * Lossiemouth
 * Macduff
 * Peterhead

Southeast Scotland

 * Kirkcaldy
 * Inverkeithing
 * Tayport
 * Grangemouth
 * Hound Point Terminal
 * Leith
 * Montrose
 * Methil
 * Rosyth
 * Dundee
 * Burntisland
 * Kirkcaldy
 * Perth