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In the 2012 added value produced from the ports Belgian it is diminished of 2%, while the occupation is increased of 1%
the direct places of work are gone up to 116.960
October 14, 2013
Last year the added value produced from the ports Belgian is diminished of 2% being is pairs to 16,1 billion euros regarding 16,5 billion in 2011 and instead is increased of 1% the occupation generated from national the harbour ports of call that are gone up to directed 116.960 places of job regarding 115.539 in the year precedence. It today evidences a relationship on the importance of the ports for the economy of diffuse Belgium from National Bank of Belgium (NBB).
The contraction of 2% of the added value regarding 2011 - the study specifies - is due mainly to the reduction of the added value in the clusters not legacies to the marine field in the ports of Ghent and Liège: in fact - the NBB explains - after an exceptional year, in the 2012 added value in the fields of the energy it is returned to record turned out less spectacular and that produced from the industry iron worker it has continued to be reduced. In the marine cluster the added value generated from the shipowners has been confirmed once again rather low, while a fort increment is recorded in the field of the dredgings and is continued also the increase of the added value in cargo handling.
By the point of view of the occupation, that exactly it has grown altogether of 1% on 2011, in the marine cluster a bending happened in the ports of Liège and Brussels is compensated by an increase of the occupied ones in the ports of Ghent and Ostenda, while in the not marine cluster the single harbour complex of Liège has recorded a fall of the occupation caused among other things from the reduction of the staff in the ArcelorMittal group; instead the port of Ostenda it has totaled the elevated increment more of the occupation and the port of Ghent has benefitted of the new tasks in the automotive field.
In the 2012 ports Belgian they have totally enlivened a traffic of 278.261.000 tons of goods, with a decrease of the -3,9% regarding 289.450.000 tons in the year precedence. The port of Antwerp has enlivened 184.135.000 tons (- 1.6%), Zeebrugge 43.544.000 (- 7.3%), Ghent 26.303.000 (- 3.3%), Liège 16.477.000 (- 15.3%), Brussels 4.606.000 (- 5.1%) and Ostenda 3.197.000 (- 16.8%).
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Last year the added value produced from the ports Belgian is diminished of 2% being is pairs to 16,1 billion euros regarding 16,5 billion in 2011 and instead is increased of 1% the occupation generated from national the harbour ports of call that are gone up to directed 116.960 places of job regarding 115.539 in the year precedence. It today evidences a relationship on the importance of the ports for the economy of diffuse Belgium from National Bank of Belgium (NBB).
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