North Sea volumes were above 2021 despite a negative impact from a strike in Felixstowe port. Volumes in the Mediterranean network continued to grow, even though fires in the Trieste region held back volumes, driven by higher Turkish industrial production and exports.

Channel’s volumes were below 2021 following a decrease on the Dover Strait due to partly lower total market volumes, and partly addition of capacity by a third ferry operator. Baltic Sea’s volumes were below 2021 due to the war in Ukraine.

For the last twelve months 2022-21, the total transported freight lane metres decreased 1.4% to 43.3m from 43.9m in 2021-20.

Ferry – passenger: The number of passengers increased fourfold to 693k equal to 82% of volumes in August 2019, the latest comparable month pre-Covid-19. The number of cars equalled 85% of volumes in 2019. The Channel business unit’s volumes were reduced by addition of capacity by a third ferry operator.

For the last twelve months 2022-21, the total number of passengers was 3.0m compared to 0.7m in 2021-20 and 5.1m in 2019.