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In the first trimester of the 2011 traffic in the port of Antwerp it has grown of 12.7%
New records of the container and the liquid bulk
April 15, 2011
In the first trimester of the 2011 traffic of the goods in the port of Antwerp it has recorded same the important trend of increase of the first three months of 2010. In the period January-March of this year the Belgian port of call has enlivened in fact 47.374.451 tons of goods, with a progression of 12.7% regarding 42.053.678 tons in the correspondent period of the 2010 (trimester in which the traffic was increased of 12.7% regarding 37.301.039 tons enlivened in the first three months of 2009).
In the first trimester of this year the liquid bulk and container traffics have established the new quarterly records of the port of Antwerp having exceeded those totaled in 2008. The managing director of the Antwerp Port Authority, Eddy Bruyninckx, has emphasized as the port has exited from the recession, even if the conventional volumes of goods and bulk sand banks are not still to the levels pre-crisis: "both fields - it has explained today - have suffered heavy in the course of the recession, but they are slowly recovering. Moreover the resumption simply is not correlated with the state of the economy".
In the first three containerized months of the 2011 volume of goods record of 26.240.633 tons (+7.8% on first trimester 2010 is piled to the figure). In terms of container from 20 ' (teu) such traffic has been pairs to 2.172.323 units (+7,9%).
In the section of the goods conventional the traffic has been of 2.926.057 tons (+11.7%), with an increase particularly supported (+41.8%) of the iron worker that have been attested to 1.947.487 tons; in increase also the fruit (338,552 tons, +3.7%) and the granite (82,526 tons, +15.6%), while the volumes of paper and cellulose are diminished (191,901 tons, -47,3%) and of not ferrous metals (70,841 tons, -9,6%).
The traffic of the rotabili has been of 1.001.865 tons (+24.1%) and the number of motors vehicle enlivened from the Belgian port of call has been of 252.532 units (+27.9%).
The bulk is piled altogether to 17.205.896 tons (+20.4%). The liquid bulk has grown of 23.8% to the level record of 11.952.276 tons, with 7.818.893 tons of derivative of oil (+34.6%) and 2.759.198 tons of chemicals (+16.9%). The solid bulk traffic is increased of 13.3% to 5.253.620 tons, with an increment of 9.7% of fertilizers to 1.338.050 tons and a progression of 63.5% of minerals to 946.923 tons.
In the first three months of this year the port of Antwerp is scaled by 3.741 ships (+6.9%) for a tonnage of tonnage pairs to 77,2 million (+15.5%).
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In the first trimester of the 2011 traffic of the goods in the port of Antwerp it has recorded same the important trend of increase of the first three months of 2010. In the period January-March of this year the Belgian port of call has enlivened in fact 47.374.451 tons of goods, with a progression of 12.7% regarding 42.053.678 tons in the correspondent period of the 2010 (trimester in which the traffic was increased of 12.7% regarding 37.301.039 tons enlivened in the first three months of 2009).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
