Edinburgh's international transport links
Edinburgh International Airport is one of five main airports in
Scotland, and the nation's busiest, carrying 9m passengers and
10,250 tonnes of air cargo per year.
More than 40 airlines
fly to over 100
destinations worldwide.
These include other European hubs providing onward connections,
such as Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels and Copenhagen.
Direct long haul routes include New York (JFK), Newark and
Toronto. Within an hour's drive, Glasgow Airport's direct route
to Dubai links into the Middle East with connections to the Far
East and Australasia.
The Forth
estuary is also the largest freight port area in Scotland,
accounting for roughly a third of total Scottish freight
traffic.
The estuary is dominated by Grangemouth Port, with further
smaller ports across Edinburgh City Region and the east coast at
Rosyth, Leith, Burntisland, Methil and Dundee.
These ports
provide easy access to the main ports of northern Europe, with
further freight facilities available in the north-east of England
from the Port of Tyne, Tees, Hartlepool and Hull.
A Norfolkline
ferry connection runs from Rosyth to Zeebrugge in Belgium, with
three departures from each port every week.
