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the port of Antwerp gets ready to close the 2014 with a traffic record
Increase of the goods containerized and the liquid bulk. Decrease of the rotabili, the goods conventional and the bulk sand banks
December 30, 2014
The port of Antwerp is getting ready to record the 2014 with a traffic record of 198,8 million tons, with an increment of +4.2% regarding 2013, year in which - with an enlivened total of 190,8 million tons - the precedence was established traffic record.
This year the goods in container is increased of +5.6% attesting itself to a new record of 108,1 million tons and handling of the containers has been pairs to the figure record of 8,96 million teu (+4.5%). Down, instead, the traffic of rotabili that is come down of -1,2% to the 4,51 million one tons to root cause of the reduction of the traffic of enlivened car that it has been pairs to about 1,2 million unit (- 7.8%). Decreasing also the conventional cargo traffic, that it is piled to 9,75 million tons (- 3.3%).
In the 2014 total volume of the liquid bulk it has established a new record being it are pairs to 62,7 million tons, in increase of +5.4% record of compared to the previous 59,5 million tons recorded in 2013. Particularly consisting it has turned out increase (+17.8%) of the liquid bulk exports, while the imports have remained almost stable.
The traffic of the solid bulk has totaled 13,67 million tons, with a contraction of the -4,9% regarding 2013 mainly caused from the continuous decrease of the coal imports determined from the closing of a series of electric power plants to coal in the region.
In the 2014 Belgian port it is climbed by 13.978 ships (- 1.7%) for a total of 334,68 million tons of tonnage (+1.5%).
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The port of Antwerp is getting ready to record the 2014 with a traffic record of 198,8 million tons, with an increment of +4.2% regarding 2013, year in which - with an enlivened total of 190,8 million tons - the precedence was established traffic record.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
