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Passenger Carryings

Aberdeen/Lerwick	Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
P&OSF 1996	1695	1201	2329	5410	6238	7846	11693	10562	6607	4525	1981	2474	62561
P&OSF 1997	1966	1525	2594	4603	6430	9025	12422	11135	6670	4557	1829	2388	65144
P&OSF 1998	2118	1376	2576	4403	6151	10298	8327	10298	5742	4750	2256	2539	60,938
P&OSF 1999	2196	1476	2631	4868	5876	7292	10691	11375					46405
P&OSF 2000	2156	1360	2787	4680	6006	8076	10242	9489	5339	4484	2295	3068	60,002
P&OSF 2001	2211	1576	2453	3951	5540	7784	11100	9908	5629	5542	2246	3420	61,360
P&OSF /Northlink 2002	2601	1709	3318	4045	6057	8813	10827	9991	6583	5758	2665	3251	65618
Northlink 2003	3098	2682	4503	6191	6654	10582	10537	12277	7185	7791	4825	4860	81185
Northlink 2004	4293	2989	6014	7970	7967	11071	15393	13752	8214	9025	5480	5752	97920
Northlink 2005	5129	3988	6329	8937	8390	11281							44054
Aberdeen/Hatston
P&OSF 1996	382	30	556	1010	1688	3165	5120	4811	1701	1037	1218	1238	21956
P&OSF 1997	278	12	518	942	2807	3370	5793	4938	1803	1354	967	2388	25170
P&OSF 1998	301	54	402	822	1682	3196	5842	4040	1549	1313	840	942	20,983
P&OSF 1999	262	28	69	996	1435	3418	4963	4192
P&OSF 2000	291	82	586	1187	1246	3373	3831	13955	1942	2295	837	1196	20,821
P&OSF 2001	326	9	282	787	1134	3182	4558	3978	1829	1310	187	912	18,494
P&OSF/ Northlink 2002	608	417	1072	776	1440	3108	3647	3967	1716	1985	998	1374	21108
Northlink 2003	989	850	1777	1448	1920	2591	2992	3355	2568	2801	2330	2706	26327
Northlink 2004	1637	981	1898	3318	3032	3352	4311	4379	2968	3495	2121	2594	34086
Northlink 2005	1802	1883	2362	3436	3463	4031							13514
Lerwick/Hatston
Northlink 2002										693	288	239	1220
Northlink 2003	211	213	595	737	1274	2291	2858	3221	1555	823	441	350	14569
Northlink 2004	347	209	857	1228	1314	2558	3726	3543	1618	1178	361	341	17280
Northlink 2005	278	235	585	1138	1509	2575							6320
Scrabster/Stromness
P&OSF 1996	3491	3965	5906	11600	13654	17691	27648	31150	15285	12080	4645	4687	0
P&OSF 1997	4194	4238	7189	11015	15291	18767	26373	30626	15722	12889	4974	5615	156893
P&OSF 1998	4319	4435	6503	12080	14539	18252	26353	29867	15722	13315	5674	5886	156945
P&OSF 1999	4550	4040	7993	13817	14889	17583	27255	27696					117823
P&OSF 2000	5015	4876	6915	14655	13982	18083	26547	26856	15742	13422	5690	6060	157832
P&OSF 2001	4589	4355	6788	12225	11683	14468	18560	18786	11654	11729	6720	6490	128047
P&OSF/ Northlink 2002	4943	4949	8748	9527	9968	12741	16162	18057	9685	7475	4675	6238	113168
Northlink 2003	3572	4315	7237	9999	12746	15354	19878	22938	13784	12623	7261	6763	136470
Northlink 2004	5135	5563	8605	12143	11373	15152	21696	22646	13885	12791	6915	6980	142884
Northlink 2005	4927	5413	8784	10910	12741	15687							58462

NOTE
These figures do not include passenger carried across the Pentland Firth by Pentland Ferries and John o' Groats Ferries.
P&OSF did not separate out the carryings between Lerwick and Hatston.

Freight

		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	TOTAL
Lerwick/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005		10493	11640	12095	11180	11020	11900
Northlink 2004		12346	10744	14582	12747	12775	12233	11917	13268	14133	14236	16320	13598	158899
Northlink 2003		9072	8740	10343	10603	8430	13200	14000	13728	15941	16584	15679	13996	150316
P&OSF 2002	SPV	84	129	137	134	86	69	114	102	93	5269	4736	4729	15682
	CT	971	1086	1117	986	1114	1051	1020	1186	898	115	84	81	9709
	TC	94	126	161	167	143	121	104	123	138	949	1040	763	3929
P&OSF 2001	SPV	121	102	125	106	121	120	113	125	94	139	136	89	1391
	CT	600	655	728	657	779	705	769	762	829	162	120	87	6853
	TC	95	82	144	120	121	136	96	122	118	813	884	712	3443
P&OSF 2000	SPV	72	83	90	103	80	125	116	133	121	80	118	80	1201
	CT	557	624	674	644	664	642	640	668	672				5785
	TC	81	97	137	152	128	124	92	104	146				1061
Hatston/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005		2559	2368	2326	2408	2666	2543							14870
Northlink 2004		1400	1492	2171	3126	2476	1964	2089	1993	2473	2371	2013	2137	25705
Northlink 2003		300	300	413	380	474	2000	1890	1957	2144	2512	1995	1409	15774
P & O SF 2002	SPV	20	20	28	18	15	31	16	28	16	334	43	260	829
	CT	167	223	216	164	126	205	277	277	202	26	19	30	1932
	TC	15	19	32	18	15	32	57	46	28	144	130	128	664
P & O SF 2001	SPV	16	11	8	18	41	26	49	59	21	56	22	26	353
	CT	109	134	202	72	136	163	148	127	177	28	19	25	1340
	TC	18	18	34	27	33	60	36	27	45	93	111	114	616
P & O SF 2000	SPV	16	11	15	32	11	24	36	37	35	33	25	21	296
	CT	145	126	165	120	84	104	80	130	94				1048
	TC	15	22	42	51	17	58	35	51	31				322
Lerwick/Hatston
Northlink 2005		112	238	287	513	487	691							2328
Northlink 2004		275	298	516	650	300	150	245	496	162	598	462	152	4304
Northlink 2003		0	0	104	142	300	150	245	496	162	296	499	474	2868
Northlink 2002											65	61	301	427
Stromness/Scrabster
Northlink 2005		5915	5745	5396	6222	6038	6109							35425
Northlink 2004		5849	5414	7567	6659	6296	4884	4434	5907	6726	7549	7637	7104	76026
Northlink 2003		8030	8451	9633	7706	7953	7500	7647	7077	6856	8737	8080	8019	95689
P & O SF 2002	SPV	240	244	261	213	197	143	108	182	137	8778	7822	8215	26540
	CT	439	472	562	508	559	528	550	509	530	188	290	216	5351
	TC	58	66	64	52	42	35	32	24	45	405	430	419	1672
P & O SF 2001	SPV	141	198	155	175	187	139	136	153	160	74	63	50	1631
	CT	219	316	307	316	460	416	426	440	366	236	212	180	3894
	TC	25	43	44	64	86	46	52	34	42	316	316	307	1375
P & O SF 2000	SPV	137	205	215	251	293	232	292	252	230	80	69	38	2294
	CT	243	262	273	252	287	280	360	303	269				2529
	TC	34	56	66	55	177	69	63	48	70	12			650

NOTE
1. These figures do not include freight carried by Pentland Ferries across the Pentland Firth in 2001-2004, nor freight carried by Norse Island Ferries between Lerwick and Aberdeen between September 2002 and June 2003.
2. P&OSF did not separate out the carryings between Lerwick and Hatston.
3. The table below lists categories of dangerous goods carried in a sample week in January 2005

Route	Description	Quantity	Class	UN Number
AB - KI	Contains Tetrachloroethylene	4 Cartons (132kgs)	6.1	1897
AB - KI	Flammable Liquid NOS (contains aromatic naphtha)	1 IBC(000 litres)	3	1993
AB - KI	Compressed Oxygen	24 Cylinders (872Kgs)	2.2	1072
AB - KI	Compressed Gas Oxidizing NOS	4Cylinders (72kgs)	2.2	1072
AB - LE	1x12 Tonne Propane Tanker	11500kgs	2.1	1978
AB - LE	1x12 Metre Semi Trailer / Tanker Liquid Nitrogen	23500kgs	2	1974
AB - LE	1x12 Tonne Propane Tanker	11500kgs	2.1	1978
AB - LE	Sodium Hydroxide Solution	4 x 25 Litre Drums	2	1824
AB - LE	Caustic Soda	32 x 205 litre Barrels (8000kgs)	3	2211
AB - LE	Formic Acid	6 x 1000 litre IBC's (7200kgs)	3	1779
AB - LE	Haysblend No3 (Corrosive)	3 x 1000 litre (3570Kgs)	2	1760
AB - LE	Organic Peroxide	7 Plastic Kegs(175Kgs)	5.2	3105
AB - LE	Resin Solution	70 Steel Drums(14000Kgs)	3	1866
AB - LE	Marine Paint & Thinners	9 Tins (45 Kgs)	3	1263
AB - LE	Polymeric beading (expandable)	9 Octabins (9000Kgs)	3	2211
KI - AB	Carbon Dioxide	1 Cylinder	2.2	1013
KI - AB	Nitrous Oxide (refrigerated liquid)	1 Cylinder	2.2	2201
KI - AB	Calor Gas Trailer 12 Metre	56 (19kg) Cylinders	2.1	1978
KI - LE	Round Straw Bales	12x500kgs (6000Kgs)	4.1	1327
LE - AB	Environmentally Hazardous Substances Solids( NDS)	24 x 1 Tonne Bags		3077
LE - AB	1 Trailer Carbon Dioxide Refrigerated Liquid	Residual/Nominal empty	2.2	2187
SC - ST	Road Tanker Of Fuel Oil	24000 Litres	3	1202
SC - ST	Paint Related Material	1 Pallet (150kgs)	3	1263
SC - ST	Demolition Charges	9.53 Kgs	1.1D	0048	(Carried under MOD Exemption)
SC - ST	Detonator Dems	2.5 Kgs	1.4S	0455 &0456	(Carried under MOD Exemption)
SC - ST	Dive Supervisors Pack	2.5 Kgs	1.4G	0312	(Carried under MOD Exemption)
ST - SC	Alcoholic Beverages	60 Casks	3	3065

LIVESTOCK		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	TOTAL
Lerwick/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005	Cattle	61	155	131	195	255	63							860
	Sheep	226	950	232	601	257	2086							4352
Northlink 2004	Cattle	63	109	147	139	145	47	25	54	158	454	263	13	1617
	Sheep	728	502	184	944	340	213	4707	18215	55183	35309	7873	1392	125590
Northlink 2003	Cattle	94	16	37	2	86	19	72	16	101	312	52	0	807
	Sheep	239	222	295	238	80	393	364	414	48,419	42483	1579	1050	95,776
P&OSF/NorthLink 2002	Cattle	69	47	44	307	195	58	85	60	108	0	6	55	1034
	Sheep	1975	60	304	1019	240	123	45	450	54739	0	208	1060	60223
P&OSF 2001	Cattle	55	15	0	62	320	75	36	50	94	621	38	134	1500
	Sheep	635	95	0	0	0	100	27	200	49718	47161	12863	5728	116527
P&OSF 2000	Cattle	77	40	144	239	227	85	70	93	81	590	175	12	1833
	Sheep	345	300	231	470	191	73	52	785	57638	34954	3830	2248	101117
Hatston/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005	Cattle	801	930	1214	742	1099	292							5078
	Sheep	1968	1057	520	288	239	138							4210
Northlink 2004	Cattle	1012	1402	1099	704	807	197	267	813	4628	2994	719	785	15427
	Sheep	268	910	1077	248	278	154	278	115	1012	3134	1100	961	9535
Northlink 2003	Cattle	850	859	1535	1067	548	5	870	1302	4149	3232	886	655	15958
	Sheep	677	884	1283	481	968	299	350	978	2832	1840	1356	850	12798
P&OSF/NorthLink 2002	Cattle	948	1324	1200	916	720	420	519	850	3582	0	534	388	11401
	Sheep	1279	1040	701	370	850	605	491	400	1981	0	1344	398	9459
P&OSF 2001	Cattle	54	261	0	340	1100	241	366	1300	3298	3567	843	646	12016
	Sheep	0	0	0	0	800	860	438	500	1931	8349	4394	705	17977
P&OSF 2000	Cattle	178	282	364	361	548	140	230	360	1676	2552	281	4	6976
	Sheep	6	0	25	232	27	0	54	0	860	2914	1299	70	5487
Lerwick/Hatston
Northlink 2005	Cattle	25	40	51	71	28	12							227
	Sheep	0	10	98	0	0	0							108
Northlink 2004	Cattle	9	3	88	45	46	29	20	26	10	7	20	16	319
	Sheep	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	341	1206	521	70	2139
Northlink 2003	Cattle										12	13	7	32
	Sheep										1937	380	15	2332
Northlink 2002	Cattle
	Sheep
Stromness/Scrabster		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	TOTAL
Northlink 2005	Cattle	14	36	38	30	46	68							232
	Sheep	28	0	110	92	320	408							958
Northlink 2004	Cattle	9	8	119	22	32	16	35	118	295	111	57	15	837
	Sheep	0	68	493	43	270	353	45	519	766	301	15	1017	3890
Northlink 2003	Cattle	16	26	41	45	44	35	38	8	542	382	3	0	1180
	Sheep	0	0	524	381	122	8	167	1	237	969	646	252	3307
P&OSF/NorthLink 2002	Cattle	216	212	154	211	210	91	73	250	613	0	0	12	2042
	Sheep	3966	2986	1114	331	520	257	119	200	4735	0	0	27	14255
P&OSF 2001	Cattle	757	614	0	0	140	40	76	200	704	343	117	30	3021
	Sheep	2372	633	0	0	350	0	0	300	1265	7235	4692	6992	23839
P&OSF 2000	Cattle	573	675	744	595	411	204	509	379	1143	1150	421	327	7131
	Sheep	2463	1633	1654	676	582	375	335	1417	5774	9126	7423	2069	33527

NOTE
These figures do not include livestock carried by Orcargo between Hatston and Aberdeen in 1999-2001, by Pentland Ferries across the Pentland Firth in 2001-2004, nor by Norse Island Ferries between Lerwick and Aberdeen between November 2002 and June 2003.
P&OSF did not separate out the carryings between Lerwick and Hatston.

CAR NUMBERS	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Lerwick/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005	814	704	1114	1447	1327	1782							7188
Northlink 2004	778	607	1048	1326	1382	1953	2409	2077	1530	1454	976	970	16510
Northlink 2003	630	576	937	1192	1225	1649	1822	2210	1382	1407	946	942	14450
P&OSF 2002	552	414	711	844	1151	1401	1878	1753	1087	1387	704	736	12618
P&OSF 2001	483	373	529	822	927	1198	1894	1711	1132	1115	628	660	11472
P&OSF 2000	511	303	663	829	1104	1393	1909	1731	1018	1027	632	565	11685
P&OSF 1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11254
P&OSF 1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11531
P&OSF 1997	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12006
P&0SF 1996	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11254
Kirkwall/Aberdeen
Northlink 2005	286	285	402	454	498	538							2463
Northlink 2004	295	166	333	438	453	458	560	557	474	492	260	342	4828
Northlink 2003	199	168	320	378	364	370	407	470	414	394	391	418	4293
P&OSF 2002	106	80	228	118	240	458	624	634	232	413	165	276	3574
P&OSF 2001	73	0	59	139	200	489	678	660	251	233	41	-	2823
P&OSF 2000	52	16	101	194	171	554	679	612	300	181	97	159	2936
P&OSF 1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3173
P&OSF 1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3317
P&OSF 1997 P&OSF 1996	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3364
Lerwick/Kirkwall
Northlink 2005	71	46	111	165	274	341							1008
Northlink 2004	69	27	128	185	208	408	537	470	259	234	62	73	2660
Northlink 2003	52	16	110	144	193	426	245	496	162	166	79	56	2145
Northlink 2002	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	92	67	62	221
Stromness/Scrabster
Northlink 2005	1613	1772	2795	3127	3803	4453							17563
Northlink 2004	1541	1599	2625	3378	3156	4062	5547	5985	4032	3780	2238	2262	40205
Northlink 2003	1170	1449	2395	2700	4027	4197	5623	6338	4202	3992	2391	2237	40721
P&OSF/Northlink 2002	1695	1652	2752	2712	2970	3655	4372	5064	2688	2342	1828	1872	33584
P&OSF -2001	1462	1331	2085	3535	3661	4063	4879	5023	3346	3464	2400	2157	37406
P&OSF- 2000	1570	1511	2069	3956	4363	5603	7692	7681	4816	3940	1931	1956	47088
P&OSF 1999	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
P&OSF 1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
P&OSF 1997	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	44842
P&0SF 1996													42312

NOTE
* - (No Figures Available)

COACH/ MIDI NUMBERS	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Lerwick/Aberdeen
2005(Coach)	-	2	1	6	21	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	62
2005( MIDI)		4	4	4	1	9							22
2004(Coach)	-	-	2	9	14	23	24	26	20	4	0	3	125
2004 ( MIDI)		1	1	2	4	5	4	2	5	1			25
2003(Coach)	-	2	3	6	22	28	28	24	16	4	1	2	136
2003( MIDI)	1	-	1	8	2	12	6	9	2	2	-	2	45
2002 (Coach)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	3	5
2002( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	4
Kirkwall/Aberdeen
2005(Coach)	-	-	-	3	3	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	9
2005( MIDI)	-	-	-	2	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
2004 (Coach)	-	-	-	1	3	3	2	1	1	-	-	-	11
2004( MIDI)	-	1	-	3	1	2	-	1	2	-	-	-	10
2003(Coach)	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1	-	-	3
2003( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	8	2	1	0	-	-	-	11
2002(Coach)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lerwick/Kirkwall
2005(Coach)	0	1	0	2	8	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	27
2005( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
2004(Coach)	-	-	-	3	6	11	32	20	-	1	-	-	73
2004( MIDI)	-	-	-	2	2	2	4	0	-	-	-	-	10
2003(Coach)	-	-	-	-	7	12	17	14	7	1	-	-	51
2003( MIDI)	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	5	1	1			12
2002(Coach)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
2002( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	3
Scrabster/Stromness
2005(Coach)	-	1	4	16	20	36	-	-	-	-	-	-	77
2005( MIDI)	-	-	2	10	9	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	38
2004(Coach)	-	-	-	3	6	11	32	20	12	13	-	-	97
2004( MIDI)	-	-	-	2	2	2	4	0	1	-	-	-	11
2003(Coach)	-	-	-	7	17	24	40	31	21	1	-	-	141
2003( MIDI)	5	2	4	6	10	17	14	6	6	-	-	-	70
2002(Coach)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	7
2002( MIDI)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	7	3	13

NOTE
* - (No Figures Available)

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