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In the first half of the 2014 traffic in the port of Amsterdam it has grown of +4.3%
Altogether to Amsterdam, Beverwijk, Ijmuiden and Zaanstad are enlivened 51 million tons (+5.4%)
August 20, 2014
In the first semester of the 2014 traffic of the goods enlivened from the harbour system of Amsterdam, that it is constituted by the ports of call of Amsterdam, Beverwijk, Ijmuiden and Zaanstad, it is piled to 51 million tons, with an increment of +5.4% regarding the first half last year. The single port of Amsterdam has enlivened 42,1 million tons (+4.3%), while to Beverwijk the traffic has been of 112 thousand tons (+25.6%), to Ijmuiden of 8,6 million tons (+10.7%) and to Zaanstad of 118 thousand tons (+9.0%)
In the harbour port of call of Amsterdam the increase is produced mainly by the increase of the oil produced ones, that they are gone up of +6.8% to 21,2 million tons. Moreover the coal traffic has grown of +5.1% to 10,3 million tons and that of the container is increased of +4.8% to 353 thousand tons (for a handling of containers pairs to 32.600 teu). The other goods, included the rotabili, has recorded an increment of +13.1% to 1,3 million tons. In the field of the agricultural bulk, that it includes fertilizers, the traffic is diminished of -2,7% to the 4,7 million one tons. The other bulk sand banks is dropped of -5,0% to the 2,9 million one tons, while the other liquid bulk has remained stable to 1,4 million tons.
In the first six months of this year to Amsterdam 55 cruise ships are landed, nine in less regarding the same period of 2013. The Harbour Authority of Amsterdam has explained that such bending is due to the reduced dimension of the locks that do not allow the transit with the new cruise ships.
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In the first semester of the 2014 traffic of the goods enlivened from the harbour system of Amsterdam, that it is constituted by the ports of call of Amsterdam, Beverwijk, Ijmuiden and Zaanstad, it is piled to 51 million tons, with an increment of +5.4% regarding the first half last year. The single port of Amsterdam has enlivened 42,1 million tons (+4.3%), while to Beverwijk the traffic has been of 112 thousand tons (+25.6%), to Ijmuiden of 8,6 million tons (+10.7%) and to Zaanstad of 118 thousand tons (+9.0%)
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
