Felixstowe
About 4 million TEU a year
Location and Figures
Overview
The busiest container port in the United Kingdom, handling about 4 million TEU a year. Felixstowe pioneered British containerization in the late 1960s as ships left the Thames, and now runs under Hutchison with direct rail links to the Midlands.
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