Last year the traffic of the goods in the port of Rotterdam is piled to 444,7 million tons (+1.0%)



In the 2014 port of Rotterdam it has enlivened 444,7 million tons of goods, with an increment of +1.0% on the year precedence. If the several container and the other goods have recorded sensitive increases of the traffics, the volume of the bulk has shown a contraction totally of -1,7%.

Last year the Dutch port has moved a containerized trade pairs a127,6 million tons (+5,2) with a handling of the containers that has been pairs to 12.297.570 boxes from 20 ' (teu), in increase of +5.8% on 2013. According to the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam, this meaningful increase can be explained is from the improvement of the economies of the nations of the Eurozona and of the United Kingdom, with emphasized increments of the volumes on the routes towards Asia and the America North, it is from the first effects of the increase of the dimensions of the portacontainer, with Rotterdam that is equipped in order to receive more and more large ships.

Between the other goods several, the rotabili have grown of +12.1% to 26 million tons, chargeable improvement above all to the rise of the performances of the British economy, and the other goods several, between which steel, not ferrous metals and project cargo, has recorded an increase of +28.1% to beyond six million tons.

In the 2014 bulk sand banks they are diminished of -0,7% to the 88,6 million one tons. The Port of Rotterdam Authority has explained that because of various factors, between which the iron and steel renewal of systems in Germany, the Dutch port has enlivened a mineral volume and scraps inferior of the -5,2% regarding the year precedence. Moreover the coal traffic is dropped of the -0,9%, while the agricultural and food- bulk is increased of mainly +9.2% thanks to the greater volume of exports of grain and imports of maize and soybean. The volume of the other solid bulk that consists above all of raw materials for the construction industry and the industry has grown also that have recorded an increment of +6.8% for effect of the resumption of the total economy.

The total volume of the liquid bulk is diminished of the -2,1% and is come down to 202,5 million tons. The oil traffic crude oil is increased of +4.8% graces to a decrease of the stopped ones for maintenance of the refineries and a greater one I use of the systems. Instead the oil produced ones they are dropped of mainly the -8,1% for the increase of the competition of new active cisternieri terminals in the ports and to a bending of the naphta traffic, that it is important for the chemical industry.

The managing director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Allard Castelein, has explained that for 2015 a total increase of the traffic goods analogous to that last year and hauled is attended from the field of the container.