52220 Service activities incidental to water transportation

Activities ONS lists under 52220

The ONS index assigns these 54 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

• Berthing activities
• Bunkering services
• Canal maintenance
• Canal operation
• Cargo superintendent
• Cargo terminal
• Diving contracting (non leisure)
• Dock authority
• Floating bridge company
• Gas liquefaction for water transportation purposes
• Harbour authority
• Harbour operation
• Health and safety activities for waterway maintenance work
• Ice breaking services
• Landing stage
• Lighter lessee or owner
• Lighterage activities
• Lighthouse activities
• Lighthouse Authority
• Lightship
• Local authority canal services
• Local authority docks and harbours
• Local authority lighthouse service
• Marine cargo lighterage
• Marine cargo superintendent
• Marine salvage
• Navigation activities
• Offshore positioning services
• Passenger terminal services
• Pier operation (not amusement)
• Pier owner or authority (not amusement)
• Pilotage activities
• Port Authority
• Port of London Authority
• Salvage activities supporting water transport activities
• Shore base (sea transport)
• Terminal facilities operation (water transport)
• Towing services for distressed freight vessels in inland waters
• Towing services for distressed freight vessels on sea and coastal waters
• Towing services for distressed passenger vessels in inland waters
• Towing services for distressed passenger vessels on sea and coastal waters
• Trinity House
• Tug boat service for inland waterways
• Tug boat service for offshore installations
• Tug boat service for sea barge or off-shore well
• Tug boat service for sea barges on domestic coastal routes
• Tug lessee or owner for inland waterways service
• Tug owner or lessee for in port service or salvage
• Vessel laying up and storage services
• Vessel registration services
• Water transport (supporting activities)
• Waterway locks operation
• Wharfinger
• Wreck raising

Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.

What changes in SIC 2026

ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (52.22) to:

"1:1" means the class carries over unchanged in scope; other link types mean it was split or merged. Companies House still uses SIC 2007, so keep filing with 52220 until it announces a switch.

Source: ONS correspondence table, SIC 2007 to SIC 2026.

Closest US NAICS codes

Matched through the shared international class (ISIC Rev. 4). Treat these as a starting point and read the definition before using one.

• 488310Port and Harbor OperationsNAICS
• 488330Navigational Services to ShippingNAICS
• 488390Other Support Activities for Water TransportationNAICS

Similar codes to compare

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• 52242Cargo handling for air transport activities
• 52243Cargo handling for land transport activities
• 52290Other transportation support activities