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2019 archived information

2019 Annual Traffic Statistics

Overall passengers and vehicles

  • A total of 596,537 passengers used the Isle of Man Harbours during 2019, 19,468, or 3.37% more than in 2018.
  • Nine of the twelve months experienced increases, with the remaining 3 months of decreases attributable to the winter period.
  • Q1 and Q2, saw large swings in numbers Q1 having a 12.6% decrease and Q2 showing an 8.8% increase.
  • Non-scheduled crews and passengers increased by 21.5% over 2018 with 31,407 using the IOM harbours.
  • Scheduled service passenger vehicles saw little change with only 0.4% increase over 2018.

Scheduled passengers and vehicles

  • Scheduled passengers in 2019 saw a respectable increase of 18% overall.
  • Although March saw a large decrease 6538 this was offset by the increase in April of 6929
  • There was little difference in Liverpool and Heysham traffic with 268,251 through Heysham and 268,366 through Liverpool, a difference of just 115.
  • 180,879 scheduled passenger vehicles were transported to and from the Island during 2019, a small increase of just 0.4% over 2018.

Non-Scheduled passengers and crew

  • Commercial non-scheduled passengers saw a solid increase of 5110 or 24% over 2018.
  • Cruise ship traffic enjoyed a surge in numbers in 2019 with an increase of 22,348 or 34%.
  • Whilst there was a decline in the number of support vessels of 671 or 37% the Royal Navy visits increased by over 55% with a total of 539 crew.
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