Seaborne goods handled in main ports by country (quarterly)
Quarterly gross weight of seaborne goods handled in main ports (inwards + outwards), by reporting country, for EU maritime countries and the EU27 aggregate. Eurostat dataset mar_qg_qm_cwh ('Gross weight of seaborne goods handled in main ports, by type of cargo'), filtered to thousand tonnes. Each row is one (quarter, country): gross weight of goods handled. Method: Eurostat compiles port returns; the dataset is published at country level (no port detail). Units: thousand tonnes. Caveats: quarterly port figures are provisional and revised; the EU27_2020 aggregate row is included as published. Coverage: 2005-Q1 to the present, quarterly. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (quarter, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; 'EU27_2020' for the EU aggregate), quarter. Cadence: refreshed quarterly. Sample use: filter country_code='NLD' to track Dutch seaborne freight.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Rows
- 2,094
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Quarterly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- transport
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| quarter | string | Quarter of the observation (first day of the quarter), from the 'time' dimension (Eurostat codes like '2025-Q1'). |
| country_code | string | Reporting country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (mapped from Eurostat's alpha-2 codes). The maritime dataset also carries the provider aggregate 'EU27_2020' verbatim. |
| country_name | string | Canonical English country name (hub.normalize), or the Eurostat-published label for the EU27_2020 aggregate. |
| cargo_thousand_tonnes | float | Gross weight of seaborne goods handled in main ports (inwards + outwards), from the 'unit' indicator THS_T ('Thousand tonnes'). (unit: thousand tonnes) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| quarter | country_code | country_name | cargo_thousand_tonnes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-01-01 | BEL | Belgium | 48,836 |
| 2005-04-01 | BEL | Belgium | 51,715 |
| 2005-07-01 | BEL | Belgium | 51,197 |
| 2005-10-01 | BEL | Belgium | 52,259 |
| 2006-01-01 | BEL | Belgium | 50,815 |
| 2006-04-01 | BEL | Belgium | 55,702 |
| 2006-07-01 | BEL | Belgium | 53,220 |
| 2006-10-01 | BEL | Belgium | 56,636 |
| 2007-01-01 | BEL | Belgium | 56,843 |
| 2007-04-01 | BEL | Belgium | 57,354 |
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarterly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarterly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarterly
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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Eurostat. (2026). Seaborne goods handled in main ports by country (quarterly) [Data set]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarterly
@misc{dz_eurostat_eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarter_latest,
title = {{Seaborne goods handled in main ports by country (quarterly)}},
author = {{Eurostat}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/eurostat/eurostat_maritime_cargo_quarterly}},
note = {Latest version; accessed 2026-09-23}
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