Business Forum • 25 August, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The total weight of goods transported to/from main ports in the EU by short sea shipping was 1.6 billion tonnes during 2023, which was equivalent to a decrease of 5.4% when compared with 2022, according to Eurostat.
Of the total volumes, the Romanian port of Constanța recorded 38 million tonnes. This figure is higher than the ports of Augusta, Goteborg, Klaipeda, Barcelona, Valencia, Dublin and Ravenna.
Rotterdam in the Netherlands was by far the busiest EU port in terms of goods transported (159 million tonnes; 9.9% of the EU total).
The second busiest port was the port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium (119 million tonnes), which was almost twice as busy as the next port, Gdańsk in Poland (61 million tonnes).