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In the first nine months of this year the traffic goods in the Swiss Rhenish ports is increased of 23.8%
Collaboration of nine ports on the Rhine in order to develop the fluvial transport
October 23, 2012
In the first nine months of this year the Swiss Rhenish ports have enlivened a traffic of 5.435.318 tons of goods, with an increment of 23.8% regarding the correspondent period of 2011. The association of the fluvial ports of call Rhenish Swisses Schweizerische Rheinhäfen (SRH) has specified that such increment is produced mainly by the increase of the oil produced ones, that they constitute the volume of traffic more consisting enlivened from the ports and that in the period January-september of 2012 is piled to 2,7 2,7 million tons (+22.5%). SRH has explained moreover that the data is compared to a period of 2011 in which the fluvial traffic on the Rhine repeatedly is interrupted.
In the first nine months of the 2012 single containerized trade it has been pairs to 77.694 teu (+8.1%), of which 46,738 container teu full (+9.1%) and 30,957 empty containers (+6.6%).
While the Swiss Rhenish ports of Basel, Mulhouse and Weil are participating with the fluvial ports of Strasbourg, Kehl, To overwhelm, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Karlsruhe to an European project, begun last month and that it will be completed on December 31, 2014, that it initially previews to identify the strengths and of weakness of the nine ports on the Rhine in order then to plan the activities of cooperation and the investments necessary to create synergies between the various ports to the aim to reach a common objective: to realize an infrastructure more efficient than intermodal transport of the goods long the advanced course Rhenish.
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In the first nine months of this year the Swiss Rhenish ports have enlivened a traffic of 5.435.318 tons of goods, with an increment of 23.8% regarding the correspondent period of 2011. The association of the fluvial ports of call Rhenish Swisses Schweizerische Rheinhäfen (SRH) has specified that such increment is produced mainly by the increase of the oil produced ones, that they constitute the volume of traffic more consisting enlivened from the ports and that in the period January-september of 2012 is piled to 2,7 2,7 million tons (+22.5%). SRH has explained moreover that the data is compared to a period of 2011 in which the fluvial traffic on the Rhine repeatedly is interrupted.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
