2017 archived information
2017 Annual Traffic Statistics
Overall passengers and vehicles
- A total of 615,456 passengers used the Isle of Man harbours during 2017, 17,438, or 2.9% more than in 2016
- Seven of the twelve months experienced increases, but the increase in April was a substantial 20,000 passengers
- Q2 and Q4, saw increases, with Q2 producing a remarkable 29,000, 15% passenger increase
- Q1 and Q3 declined compared with 2016, with Q1 8,100 passengers, or 13.8%, down
- Almost 584,000 passengers passing through the IOM harbours travelled on scheduled ferry sailings, 94.9% of the total, this traffic increasing by 3.4%
- Non-scheduled crews and passengers declined by 5.1% with 31,461 using the IOM harbours
- Scheduled service passenger vehicles saw a solid increase in 2017 of 4.9%
Scheduled passengers and vehicles
- Scheduled passengers’ throughput in 2017 was up by over 19,000. April saw the largest scheduled passenger increase of 18,500, but this followed a sharp decrease in April 2016
- Liverpool traffic increased by 17,751 with Heysham falling by 2,758, giving Liverpool a lead over Heysham of almost 21,700 passengers, with 49% of the scheduled market
- Passengers on Dublin were up by 23% over 2016 at 8,877
- The Belfast route was 11.6% up, with almost 23,900 passengers
- 186,139 scheduled passengers’ vehicles were transported to and from the Island, a 4.9% increase over 2016. The big increase was again in April with more 6,160 vehicles carried
Non-Scheduled passengers and crew
- Commercial non-scheduled passengers were down in 2016 by 6.5% to 26,700. Marina and Non-marina numbers increased by 3.2 to 4,779
- Cruise ship traffic declined with over 2,100 fewer visitors. The principle cause of this was the early season cancellation of the MV Balmoral sailings following a certification issue
- Fishing crews were down by 27%. The Karina saw a slight decrease of 3% with 6,640 passengers taking trips on the vessel
Crew and passengers from all other categories of non-scheduled commercial activity saw increases, the most notable being for support vessels, up by almost 1,000 or 130%.