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The port of Rotterdam rinsalda the ties with Russia
Last year the Dutch port of call has increased own market share
March 10, 2011
In the 2010 port of Rotterdam the year has entirely recovered the volume of traffic directed with lost Russia precedence because of the economic crisis. The managing director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Hans Smits, taking part today to the Conference Container in course to Rotterdam, has announced that, second the preliminary data, last year the direct containerized trade of the port of Rotterdam with Russia has been pairs to about 405.000 teu, an analogous volume to that of the 2008 and advanced one of totaled 43% regarding 283.000 teu in 2009. Such resumption - it has explained - will probably diminish to 10% the difference with the port of Amburgo, that he is the leader of this market. The German port of call, in fact, in 2010 must have enlivened a traffic with Russia pairs to 450.000 teu regarding 329.000 teu in 2009 and to 725.000 teu in 2008.
While the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has communicated the nomination of Paul Smits to financial director of the agency with effect from the next 1° june. Paul Smits, that he is 47, has covered managing assignments in the Dutch society of telecommunications KPN.
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