This is a list of ports and harbours in Scotland based on Department for Transport data.[1]
Name | Place | Council area | Port type | Ferry service |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Port of Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Oil, Commercial, Cruise, Cargo, Renewables and Ferry | Yes | Largest and busiest port in Scotland |
Ardossan Harbour | Ardrossan | North Ayrshire | Commercial | Yes | |
Sullom Voe Terminal | Sullom Voe | Shetland | Oil | No | Accepts largest vessels in world [2] |
Lerwick Harbour | Lerwick | Shetland | Commercial,Fishing, cruise[3] | Yes | |
Scalloway Harbour | Scalloway | Shetland | Fishing[4] | No | |
Cairnryan Harbour | Cairnryan | Dumfries and Galloway | Ferry Terminal, Commercial | Yes | |
Cromarty Firth | Invergordon | Highland | Panamax, naval base | No | |
Finnart Oil Terminal | Loch Long | Argyll and Bute | Oil Terminal | No | |
Grangemouth Port | Grangemouth | Falkirk | Commercial, container terminal | No | Scotland's largest container terminal. |
Hound Point | Firth of Forth | Fife | Panamax, oil terminal | No | - |
Hunterston Terminal | Fairlie, North Ayrshire | North Ayrshire | Commercial, coal-handling port | No | - |
Flotta Harbour | Flotta | Orkney | Oil, Ferry Terminal | Yes | |
Kirkwall Harbour and others in the islands | Kirkwall, Stromness, Scapa Flow | Orkney | Ferry Terminal, Fishing, cruise | Yes | |
Leith Harbour | Leith | Edinburgh | Commercial | No | - |
Ullapool Harbour | Ullapool | Highland | Ferry terminal, fishing port, commercial | Yes | |
Rosyth Dockyard | Rosyth | Fife | Commercial, naval dockyard | No | - |
Fraserburgh Harbour | Fraserburgh | Aberdeenshire | Commercial, Fishing, Cargo | No | |
Dundee Harbour | Dundee | Dundee City | Commercial | No | |
Glensanda harbour | Glensanda | Highland | Quarry | No | |
Peterhead Harbour | Peterhead | Aberdeenshire | Fishing, offshore services, commercial [5] | No | |
Port of Ayr | Ayr | South Ayrshire | Commercial, cruise [6] | No | |
Port of Ardrishaig | Ardrishaig | Argyll and Bute | Timber [7] | No | |
Buckie harbour | Buckie | Moray | Fishing, offshore services [8] | No | |
Corpach harbour | Corpach | Highland | aluminium[9] | No | |
Inverkeithing harbour | Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth | Fife | No | ||
Port of Inverness | Inverness | Highland | Commercial | No | |
Montrose harbour | Montrose | Angus | Offshore services[10] | No | |
Scrabster harbour | Scrabster | Highland | Ferry, fishing | Yes | |
Stornoway harbour | Stornoway | Highland | Ferry, fishing | Yes | |
Troon harbour | Troon | South Ayrshire | Timber[11] | No | |
Wick harbour | Wick | Highland | Offshore services, fishing | No | - |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: data tables (PORT)". gov.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Sullom Voe Port Information". Shetland Islands Council. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Lerwick Harbour". Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Scalloway Harbour". Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Peterhead Port Authority". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Port of Ayr". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Ardrishaig". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Buckie harbour". Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Kilmallie and Ardgour councils seek meeting over Corpach port upgrades proposal". The Oban Times. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Montrose Port". Montrose Port Authority. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Troon". Associated British Ports. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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