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the port of Antwerp has closed the first semester of 2014 with a traffic record
Enlivened 98.229.046 tons of goods (+2.7%)
July 14, 2014
In the first six months of this year the port of Antwerp has enlivened 98.229.046 tons of goods, volume that the new semiannual record of traffic of the Belgian port of call and an increment of +2.7% regarding the first half of 2013 represents. In the single field of the container the traffic has been of 53.553.954 tons (+4.0%) totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 4.416.132 teu (+2.9%) that in single March it has recorded a new record salary. In the segment of the rotabili 2.346.506 tons are enlivened, with an increase of +1.3% on the first semester of 2013, while the traffic of the motor vehicles is diminished of the -1,4% to 643 164 units. Down also the volume of the goods conventional, that it is come down of the -6,0% to 5.028.876 tons. About the bending of conventional cargos, the Harbour Authority of Antwerp has evidenced that this decrease is imputable mainly to the fact that the fruit traffic falls back gradually in measure smaller in this sent segment being more and more in the container.
In the first six months of the 2014 traffic of the liquid bulk it is increased of +4.0% to 30.429.085 tons, of which 2.363.517 tons of oil crude oil (- 7.4%), 22.380.646 tons of producing oil (to +7.8%) and 5.484.968 chemicals tons of (- 4.2%).
The volume of the bulk sand banks is piled altogether to 6.870.625 tons, with a decrease of the -5,0% regarding the first determined semester of 2013 above all from the reduction of the -30,5% of the coal volume that is come down to 839 642 tons; the minerals are piled to 1.361.762 tons (+9.2%) and sandblast and gravel to 646 062 tons (+23.9%).
In the second solo trimester of the 2014 Belgian port has enlivened a total of 50.062.240 tons of goods, with an increment of +2.9% on the same period of 2013. The goods containerized has been pairs to 27.549.383 tons (+5.9%). Conventional Rotabili and goods have recorded both decreases of the -3,0% coming down respective to 1.161.898 tons and 2.621.150 tons. The volume of the liquid bulk is increased of +2.0% to 15.334.026 tons, while that of the solid bulk is dropped of the -7,6% to 3.395.783 tons.
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In the first six months of this year the port of Antwerp has enlivened 98.229.046 tons of goods, volume that the new semiannual record of traffic of the Belgian port of call and an increment of +2.7% regarding the first half of 2013 represents. In the single field of the container the traffic has been of 53.553.954 tons (+4.0%) totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 4.416.132 teu (+2.9%) that in single March it has recorded a new record salary. In the segment of the rotabili 2.346.506 tons are enlivened, with an increase of +1.3% on the first semester of 2013, while the traffic of the motor vehicles is diminished of the -1,4% to 643 164 units. Down also the volume of the goods conventional, that it is come down of the -6,0% to 5.028.876 tons. About the bending of conventional cargos, the Harbour Authority of Antwerp has evidenced that this decrease is imputable mainly to the fact that the fruit traffic falls back gradually in measure smaller in this sent segment being more and more in the container.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
