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This annual publication contains a compilation of statistics about passenger and freight traffic through UK ports, as well as on merchant ships owned or registered in the UK and the Crown Dependencies, and the world fleet. Findings include that, during 2003, total freight traffic through UK ports fell 2.7 million tonnes to 555.7 million tonnes. Scottish ports traffic fell by 10 per cent during this period, whilst the volume of traffic through English ports rose by two per cent, rose in Welsh ports by one per cent and in Northern Irish ports by three per cent. Imports through all UK ports in 2003 were estimated at 229.3 million tonnes, up four per cent, with exports estimated at 174 million tonnes, down two per cent, whilst domestic traffic declined by four per cent.