§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will tabulate the approximate number of railway wagons, heavy commercial vehicles, containers, road passenger coaches, light motor vehicles and passengers, respectively, arriving at, or departing for, the continent from or to each port on the east and south coasts of the United Kingdom between Hull and Plymouth in the current year.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe information given is based on commercial data supplied to the Department by port authorities and operators. Entries in the table marked with an asterisk denote cases where information is omitted to protect confidentiality.
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1984 Port Traffic with Mainland Europe (thousands) Port Railway Wagons Roads Goods Containers Coaches Cars etc. Passengers Hull — 45 107 * 85 456 Goole — — * — — Grimsby/Immingham — 120 62 — — Boston — — * — — Kings Lynn — — * — — Great Yarmouth — 69 — — — Lowestoft — — * — — Felixstowe — 159 154 * 105 Ipswich — 61 100 — — 683 Harwich 21 131 93 * 213 1.924 London — 3 172 — — 3,0202 Medway — 58 * * 93 Ramsgate — 62 — * 83 Folkestone — 46 — * 79 Dover 43 672 13 121 1,278 13,861 Newhaven — 48 — * 72 13.861 Shoreham — * * — — Portsmouth — †63 * * —282 Southampton — 36 * * 54 Poole — 63 — — — Portland/Weymouth — — — — * Plymouth — * — — * Total 64 * 757 156 * 23,065 * Denote cases where information is omitted to protect confidentiality. †Includes Channel Islands traffic.