In the 2012 produced direct added value from the six ports Belgian it is diminished of -0,5%



The produced direct added value from the six ports Belgian is begun to drop in 2011 and the contraction is continued in 2012 but in measure more light (- 0.5%). It evidences the last annual report on the economic importance of the marine ports of Flanders (Antwerp, Gand, Ostenda and Zeebrugge), of the harbour complex of Liège and the port of Brussels that is introduced yesterday by Banca Nazionale of Belgium (NBB) and that it indicates in 16,40 billion euros the realized direct added value in the 2012 from the six ports regarding 16,48 billion euros in the year precedence.

In the period between the 2007, when such direct added value was piled to 16,86 billion euros, and 2012 annual medium decrease of the direct added value it turns out pairs also it to -0,5%.

The relationship emphasizes that the produced direct added value from the single marine cluster is increased instead of +8.2% graces mainly to the activity of cargo handling and the activities of construction and dredging in the ports, while that realized from the not-marine cluster is diminished of the -3,2%, with recorded decrease is in the field of the commerce is of the industry, with the greater reductions concentrated in the industrial sections of the energy and chemistry.

The precise study that the results of the several ports are however rather different: in the 2012 produced direct added values from the ports of Antwerp and Ostenda they have grown respective of +3.3% and +3.1%; moreover the value produced from the port of Brussels has remained stable (+0.1%), while that producing from the port of Zeebrugge is dropped of the -1,5% and still more emphasized it has been the bending of the added value of the ports of Gand (- 4.8%) and Liège (- 16.1%).

Altogether the produced indirect added value in 2012 from the six ports has grown of +0.4% to 13,47 billion euros. Therefore the added value total, directed more indirect, is dropped totally of the -0,1% to 29,87 billion euros.

In the 2012 quota the direct added value of the national ports on the Gross Domestic Product one of Belgium it is diminished of -0,1 points percentages attesting itself to 4.4%, while the added value total of the ports is come down of -0,2 points percentages to 7.9% of the GDP national.

Sul forehead of the occupation, instead, the relationship reveals that, after two consecutive years of the reduction recorded totally in the six ports Belgian, in the 2012 tendency she is invert and the direct occupation has grown of +1.6% even if such increment has had to the not-marine cluster exclusively since the occupation in the marine cluster has turned out tinning.

The total occupation is increased in five ports, with the port of call of Ostenda that has recorded the more important increment with +7.8% continuation from the port of Brussels with a +3.8% and therefore from Gand (+1.9%), Antwerp (+1.5%) and Zeebrugge (+0.8%), while the harbour complex of Liège is the only port to have recorded a contraction of occupation (- 2.1%).

In the 2012 quota the ports on the national total direct occupation of Belgium he has remained stable to 2.9%. Considering also of the indirect occupation such quota one has confirmed pairs to 6.4%.

At last in the 2012 direct investments in the ports Belgian they have recorded a decrease (- 3.0%) for the fourth consecutive year coming down to 3,30 billion euros regarding 3,40 billion euros in the year precedence. The relationship of the precise NBB that both the clusters, marine and not-marine, have accused a decrease, but in the course of the 2012 that manufacturer it has recorded stopping of the bending of the investments and also an light increase.

Sul forehead of the traffic of the goods, after the contraction in 2011, the 2012 all Flemish ports has totaled a reduction of the traffic, that it is piled to a total of 257,2 million tons (- 3.0%), with decrease that go from the -1,6% of the port of Antwerp, that it has enlivened 184,1 million tons regarding 187,2 million in the year precedence, to the -16,8% of the port of Ostenda. Moreover the harbour complex of Liège has lost the -15,3 of its traffic, that it is come down to 16,5 million tons, and in the port of Brussels the decrease of the -5,1% being is enlivened 4,6 million tons of goods.