the port of Rotterdam will last year close 2013 with a volume of analogous traffic to that



The port of Rotterdam will close this year with a volume of traffic of the goods analogous to that of 2013. In fact the Harbour Authority of the Dutch port of call previews last year that 2013 will be archived item with a total of about 441,5 million tons, quantitative identical to that. Such result is achieved graces to an light rise of the traffic recorded in the second half of the 2013 that has compensated the bending happened in the first half of the year, but above all thanks to the contribution of the traffic of the port of Dordrecht, port of call that it per year enlivens about three million tons and whose volumes of traffic are included in that total of the port of Rotterdam beginning from January 2013.

In the 2013 traffic of import enlivened from the port of Rotterdam it is piled to 310,4 million tons (+0.1%) and that of export to 131,1 million tons (- 0.2%).

The single field container has recorded a decrease of the -3,1% recording a total 121,6 million tons, that pairs to 11.664.195 teu (- 1.7% are realized with a handling of containers). Port Authority has announced that the oceanic containerized trade has shown a bending of -3.4% (in teu) and that feeder is diminished of the -11,5%, while the marine traffic of short sea shipping is increased of + 13.2%. The other goods several is dropped of -1,8% to the 23,3 million one tons, of which 18,5 million tons of cargos ro-ro (+3.5%) and 4,8 million conventional tons of goods (- 18.2%).

The section of the bulk sand banks, thanks to the increase of the volumes in all the merceologici branches, has recorded an increase of 12.7% to 88,0 million tons, of which 35,8 million tons of iron mineral and +9.4% scrap (), 29,6 million tons of coal (+17.1%), 10,3 million tons of agricultural bulk (+28.0%) and 12,2 million tons of other bulk sand banks.

In light decrease, instead, the total traffic of the liquid bulk, come down to 208,5 million tons (- 2.6%), because of the contraction of the -7,3% of the oil traffic crude oil that is piled to 91,1 million tons (volume that constitutes an historical minim for the port of Rotterdam). The oil produced ones have grown of +1.8% to 83,3 million tons and the other liquid bulk is dropped of -0,2% to the 33,4 million one tons.

"The things - the managing director of the Port of Rotterdam has commented Authority, Hans Smits - have gone exactly to the opposite one last year. If in the 2012 - it has explained - produced oil and oil crude oil they have offered an increase, this year has not happened. Now in particular coal, minerals and scrap irons and agricultural bulk are increased. The traffic of the container is in light decrease. The main reason of the increase lack is the continuous economic crisis. In last the three years, traffic is increased of 1%, but this has this year not happened although the fact that the second half of the year has been better of the first".

"The total market share of the port of Rotterdam - it has continued Smits - has remained stable. The market share of the solid bulk is increased remarkablly, but the containers have shown an light bending. I attend a small change in the next year because new the container terminal to Maasvlakte 2 the end of 2014 will be operating beginning from. In consideration, between the other things, of the macroeconomic forecasts by the central Office of planning and OCSE, esteem that in the 2014 total traffic to Rotterdam will increase of about the 1-1,5%".

In the solo fourth trimester of the 2013 Dutch port has enlivened about altogether 109,1 million tons of goods, almost identical volume to that of the correspondent period last year.