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Southampton Port — United Kingdom

Data refreshed 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z · quarterly refresh cycle

Southampton, United Kingdom is a SIP-class port in United Kingdom, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 2,141 vessels at last extraction.

2,141 vessels tracked on the day of extraction

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).

Vessel composition by class

Shares below cover vessels with a reported class; the total also includes vessels without one.

Container: 748

Dry bulk: 37

General cargo: 265

RoRo: 890

Tanker: 200

Share of United Kingdom maritime trade

Maritime imports: 8.76%

Maritime exports: 7.85%

Top industries served

Mining and Quarrying
Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
Food & Beverages

Port record

Coordinates	50.9021N, -1.4295E
UN/LOCODE	GB SOU
Port class	SIP
Continent	Europe

Nearby high-activity ports in United Kingdom

Immingham · 5,395 London · 2,216 Liverpool · 2,056

Data provenance

Source query: https://services9.arcgis.com/weJ1QsnbMYJlCHdG/arcgis/rest/services/PortWatch_ports/FeatureServer/1/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=%2A&f=json

Extracted 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z; field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer (geometry omitted). Field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer; point geometry dropped, lat/long kept as attributes.

Port data — Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Reused under the IMF Copyright & Usage terms. Fields subsetted (geometry omitted); see our data sources note. The IMF is not affiliated with and does not endorse ExportSonar.