Port of Felixstowe
Last updated 10 Jun 2026
UK's largest container port, handling around 48% of UK containerised trade. Primary origin for GEML corridor freight, dispatching to inland terminals across the West Midlands and the North.
| Active since | — |
| Operating company | Hutchison Ports |
| Rail terminals |
North Terminal
(FLXSNFL, FLXSNGB, FLXSNEW)
South Terminal
(FLXSSGB, FLXSSEW)
Creek sidings
(FLXSCRS)
|
| Branch-line capacity | Felixstowe Branch Line — 47 paths per day |
| Network constraints | Haughley Junction; Ely Area |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record — available once the pipeline reaches 12 complete periods. |
| Rail mode share | Rail accounts for around 29% of port throughput overall, and around 50% of traffic to the North and West Midlands (Hutchison Ports, Port of Felixstowe rail services page). |
Latest period summary
Port of Felixstowe received 247 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 89% of 244 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The reading is in line with Period 1 2026-27; the ranges around each reading overlap. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
Reports
Operators calling
- GB Railfreight
- Freightliner Intermodal
- DB Cargo UK
Corridors served
Inland destinations
Methodology & sources
All figures derive from Network Rail's NROD TRUST feed, processed via the Gauge Intelligence ingest pipeline. Period definitions, A2F (Arrival to Fifteen), the Wilson 90% interval, daily anomaly rules, cross-view reconciliation, and delay attribution are documented at:
Data window — period boundaries and the data-as-of cutoff
League tables — cross-view reconciliation across the four analytical views
Anomaly detection — daily A2F SPC rules
Delay attribution — DAPR cause-code breakdown
Forecasting — prediction intervals and possession-exposure estimates
The Port of Felixstowe is the UK’s largest container port, operated by Hutchison Ports. It is the primary rail-freight origin on the Great Eastern Main Line, dispatching outbound services across three rail terminals to inland destinations in the West Midlands, the North, and Scotland.
P13 2025-26 outbound performance (1–28 Mar 2026)
Port of Felixstowe dispatched 501 outbound freight services in P13 2025-26 — 88.8% A2F punctuality on terminal arrival at inland destinations.
Top inland destinations
Destination lens — services counted by origin at Felixstowe terminals, attributed to each inland terminal on arrival.
Standout: Hams Hall at 74.5% A2F — 14.3pp below Felixstowe's mean of 88.8% on terminal arrival.
| Inland terminal | Services | A2F% | vs Felixstowe mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doncaster iPort | 75 | 95% | +5.9pp |
| Trafford Park | 56 | 80% | -8.4pp |
| Hams Hall | 55 | 75% | -14.3pp |
| Birch Coppice (BIFT) | 39 | 92% | +3.5pp |
| Ditton | 37 | 81% | -7.7pp |
| Lawley Street | 31 | 97% | +8.0pp |
| Garston | 28 | 93% | +4.1pp |
| DIRFT Daventry | 27 | 93% | +3.8pp |
| Leeds Stourton | 19 | 100% | +11.2pp |
| Doncaster Europort | 18 | 94% | +5.6pp |
Operators active
| Operator | Services | A2F% | vs Felixstowe mean |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB Railfreight | 290 | 89% | -0.2pp |
| Freightliner Intermodal | 154 | 94% | +4.7pp |
| DB Cargo UK | 57 | 77% | -11.6pp |
Source. Network Rail NROD TRUST feed; activations and movements, P13 2025-26 (1 Mar 2026 to 28 Mar 2026).
Destination lens. Services attributed to Port of Felixstowe by origin TIPLOC; A2F measured on terminal arrival at the inland destination.
vs Felixstowe mean. Each row's A2F% minus Port of Felixstowe's own P13 2025-26 mean of 89% — a within-portfolio comparison, not a comparison against the rail industry.
Methodology. Operator-lens national figures are on each operator reference page. Cross-lens reconciliation follows the league-table methodology. Period boundaries are documented in the data-window methodology.
Commercial licence
Four derivations are released to commercial-licence subscribers rather than the public archive. Each one reconciles TRUST source-data against Network Rail's Historic Delay Attribution record independently, not republished from public statistics.
- Schedule 8 net position
- Why late — delay attribution
- Schedule 4 possession exposure
- Path utilisation — corridor breakdown
Available under commercial licence. Contact [email protected] for subscription terms.