LOCATION

Prestwick Airport

PIK

27th

IMPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£1.3B

IMPORT VALUE 2018

21st

EXPORT VALUE RANK 2018

£1.2B

EXPORT VALUE 2018

INDICATIVE PRICE

Insufficient data for an indicative price

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is an airport serving the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 mi (51 km) from the city centre of Glasgow. It is the second busiest of the two airports serving Glasgow, with the busiest being Glasgow Airport which is situated within the Greater Glasgow conurbation itself (located in the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire). It is set to become the European hub for commercial space flights, and is Scotland's main candidate for development into the first UK Spaceport.

Glasgow Prestwick is Scotland's fourth busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic, after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Airport, and Aberdeen Airport, although it is the largest in terms of land area. Passenger traffic peaked at 2.4 million in 2007 following a decade of rapid growth, driven in part by the boom in no-frills airlines, particularly Ryanair which uses the airport as an operating base.

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TOP 10 IMPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Engines and motors, non-electric (other than those of groups 712, 713 and 718); parts, n.e.s., of these engines and motors more info £1.2B
2 Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques more info £35M
3 Aircraft and associated equipment; spacecraft (including satellites) and spacecraft launch vehicles; parts thereof more info £32M
4 Arms and ammunition more info £5.7M
5 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically-propelled; specially designed and equipped transport containers more info £4.7M
6 Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings more info £3M
7 Pigments, paints, varnishes and related materials more info £2.1M
8 Manufactures of base metal, n.e.s. more info £2M
9 Measuring, checking, analysing and controlling instruments and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £1.6M
10 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves more info £1.5M

TOP 10 EXPORTED COMMODITIES BY VALUE 2018

Rank Description Total
1 Engines and motors, non-electric (other than those of groups 712, 713 and 718); parts, n.e.s., of these engines and motors more info £1B
2 Aircraft and associated equipment; spacecraft (including satellites) and spacecraft launch vehicles; parts thereof more info £83M
3 Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves more info £13M
4 Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques more info £10M
5 Transmission shafts (including camshafts and crankshafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gearboxes and other speed changers (including torque converters); flywheels and pulleys (including pulley blocks); clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints); articulated link chain; parts thereof more info £10M
6 Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically-propelled; specially designed and equipped transport containers more info £9.7M
7 Measuring, checking, analysing and controlling instruments and apparatus, n.e.s. more info £5.7M
8 Manufactures of base metal, n.e.s. more info £5.1M
9 Other machinery and equipment specialized for particular industries; parts thereof, n.e.s. more info £4.7M
10 Civil engineering and contractors' plant and equipment; parts thereof more info £4.4M