Harbour Traffic Information

Isle of Man Monthly Harbours’ Traffic Summary 

February 2019

Below is a summary of the Isle of Man passenger traffic statistics for the Island's Harbours for February 2019. The percentage decrease for February was slightly less than that for January at 2.58%. Thus the recent trend seems to be a slowing down of the reduction in traffic. In summary:

Overall passengers

• A total of 16,207 passengers used the Isle of Man Harbours in February 2019, down by 428 or 2.6% on February 2018. Scheduled traffic constituted 97.1% of the total passengers for the month.
• The moving annual total (March 2018 to January 2019) was 576,300, a decrease over the previous 12 months of 6.58%. 

Scheduled passengers and vehicles

• Overall, scheduled service passenger numbers were down by just 246, or 1.5%, with a total from the two routes of 15,737 during February.
• The Liverpool route saw an 8.4% decrease with 3,638 passengers travelling to Merseyside.
• Heysham, however benefitted from a slight increase of 87 passengers or 0.7%.  Just under 12,100 passengers travelled on the route.
• Scheduled passengers’ vehicles also saw a small decrease - of 98 vehicles or 1.6%, with 5,926 vehicles using ferry services.

Non-Scheduled passengers

• After a large increase in January, non-scheduled passenger numbers were significantly down in February, with 470 passengers and crews using the Island’s Harbours, a 28% decrease.
• This was because there were virtually no support crews using the Island during the month.  Fishing activity was about the same as for February 2018, with just 12 crew fewer.