Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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the port of Antwerp closes the first semester of 2013 with an increment of 2% of the traffic thanks to the rise of the liquid bulk
Bending of several the solid bulk and the goods
July 18, 2013
In the first half of the 2013 port of Antwerp it has enlivened a traffic almost 95,7 million tons of goods, with a progression of 2.0% regarding 93,8 million tons in the first six months last year. The increase is the result of an increment of 1.5% of the enlivened volumes of traffic in the first trimester of 2013 and of an increase of in the quarter next 2.5% and is ascribable essentially to the rise of the traffic of the liquid bulk.
In the first semester of this year the total volume of the bulk is piled to 36,5 million tons, in increase of 12.1% on the first half of 2012. The bulk sand banks is diminished of 31.6% coming down to 7,2 million tons, while the liquid bulk has grown of 33.1% to 29,2 million tons thanks to the entrance in activity of the new Sea-Tank Terminal 510 and the Independent Belgian Refinery, the refinery of Antwerp that recently is yielded by the Petroplus to the Cypriot group Gunvor, let alone to the increase of the volumes enlivened from the other cisternieri terminals of the Belgian port.
In the field of the containers the traffic is dropped of -3,7% to the 51,5 million one 4.291.219 tons that are totaled enlivening container from 20 ' (- 1.7%). The goods loose pairs to 5,3 million tons (- 0.4%) and the rotabili to 2,3 million tons (- 3.8% have been). Handling of motors vehicle has grown of 5.6% to 652.038 units.
In the first six months of the 2013 port of Antwerp it is climbed by 7.234 ships (- 1.7%) for a total of 163,5 million tons of tonnage (+3.5%).
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In the first half of the 2013 port of Antwerp it has enlivened a traffic almost 95,7 million tons of goods, with a progression of 2.0% regarding 93,8 million tons in the first six months last year. The increase is the result of an increment of 1.5% of the enlivened volumes of traffic in the first trimester of 2013 and of an increase of in the quarter next 2.5% and is ascribable essentially to the rise of the traffic of the liquid bulk.
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