Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 9.12(a) Vehicle and Passenger Traffic between Scotland and Northern Ireland
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
thousands
Ardrossan - Larne
Numbers of cars .. .. - - - - - - - - -
Numbers of passengers 4 1 - - - - - - - - -
Cairnryan - Larne
Numbers of cars 151 140 153 139 137 140 134 156 154 154 151
Numbers of passengers 644 604 651 599 595 602 595 646 628 602 611
Campbeltown1 - Ballycastle
Numbers of cars - - - - - - - - - - -
Numbers of passengers - - - - - - - - - - -
Stranraer - Belfast
Numbers of cars 270 248 257 239 275 239 250 257 239 244 244
Numbers of passengers 1,458 1,358 1,296 1,363 1,319 1,235 1,212 1,217 1,104 1,101 1,084
Stranraer - Larne
Numbers of cars - - - - - - - - - - -
Numbers of passengers - - - - - - - - - - -
Troon - Belfast2
Numbers of cars 80 76 76 87 74 - - - - - -
Numbers of passengers 364 362 332 368 303 - - - - - -
Troon - Larne
Numbers of cars .. .. 1 25 27 56 56 66 59 62 62
Numbers of passengers .. 1 5 100 120 214 208 231 206 213 225
Total
Numbers of cars 501 464 487 490 513 435 440 479 452 460
Numbers of passengers 2,470 2,326 2,284 2,430 2,337 2,051 2,015 2,094 1,937 1,915 1,920

1. The Campbeltown - Ballycastle ferry service was withdrawn in 2000 before the start of the summer season.
2. The Troon - Belfast ferry service was withdrawn in December 2004.

Table 9.12 (b) Vehicle and Passenger Traffic between Scotland and Europe
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
thousands
Rosyth - Zeebrugge1
Numbers of passengers - - 105 195 192 183 112 110 74 31 54
Numbers of cars - - 28 43 44 43 28 31 21 9 16
Roads goods vehicles - - 8 16 21 21 6 6 4 1 12
Unaccompanied trailers - - 6 16 20 18 22 8 5 3 7
Import/export vehicles - - 2 2 3 6 7 7 5 7 17
Lerwick - Bergen2 3 3 4 5 7 5 4 - - - -
Lerwick - Hanstholm2 - - - 1 1 1 - - - - -
Lerwick - Torshaven2 3 3 3 7 7 6 5 1 1 - -
Total passengers 6 6 112 208 207 194 121 111 75 31 54
Total vehicles 0 0 44 77 88 88 63 52 35 20 52

1. The service started in May 2002. The drop in passenger numbers in 2006 follows a reduction in the frequency of the service with effect from November 2005.
There was no service in the fourth quarter of 2008
2. These are passenger numbers only as car and commercial vehicles are not recorded.
3. This service ran in 1999 only