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the port of Antwerp has archived item the first trimester with an increase of the traffic of +2.5%
the volume of the goods containerized has been attested 26,0 million to tons (+2.1%)
April 24, 2014
In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Antwerp has recorded an increase of +2.5% being piled to 48,2 million tons regarding 47,0 million tons in the period January-March of 2013.
In the single field of the goods containerized the traffic has been of 26,0 million tons (+2.1%) and is totaled with a container handling pairs to 2.146.392 teu (+0.9%). More consisting the increase of the traffic ro-ro, than has attested almost 1,2 million tons (+5,8). Handling of motors vehicle has been of 313 thousand unit (+2.5%). The volume of the goods conventional instead is diminished of -9,1% coming down to the 2,4 million one tons, of which almost 1,6 million tons of producing iron and steel (- 5.5%).
In the section of the liquid bulk tons (+6.2% are enlivened 15,1 million), of which 11,0 million oil tons of producing (to +9.9%), 2,7 million tons of chemicals (- 2.8%) and 1,2 million tons of oil crude oil (- 1.3%). The total volume of the bulk sand banks is diminished of -2,3% to the 3,5 million one tons to root cause of the reduction of the coal traffic that is come down of the -44,0% to 300 thousand tons; the minerals are piled to 795 thousand tons (+36.6%) and the volume of sand and gravel to 331 thousand tons (+39.6%).
In the first three months of the 2014 port of Antwerp it is climbed by 3.443 ships (- 4.0%) for a total of 80,4 million tons of tonnage (+0.7%).
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In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Antwerp has recorded an increase of +2.5% being piled to 48,2 million tons regarding 47,0 million tons in the period January-March of 2013.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
