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In the 2016 harbour taxes to Rotterdam they will endure an increase of +0.5%
It is pairs to half of the recorded rate of inflation last year
November 9, 2015
The Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has announced that the next year will apply an increase of +0.5% of the harbour taxes, percentage - it has emphasized the authority - that it is pairs to half of the rate of inflation last year as established from the agreement which signed from Port Authority with Deltalinqs, the association of the harbour, logistic and industrial companies of the port of Rotterdam, with VRC (Vereniging van Rotterdamse Cargadoors), the association of the shipping agents of Rotterdam, and with the Netherlands Petroleum Industry Association (VNPI). The triennial understanding previews in fact that the increase of the taxes is pairs to the half of the inflation rate, with the maximum annual rise of +1%.
The Harbour Authority has confirmed that measures will be maintained specific in order to stimulate the traffic in determined fields of activity, between which that of the transhipment of the container. The agency has remembered that for this container, than reached in the terminals of the Dutch port they are reshipped by the ship to another for being advanced towards another port, is applied a harbour rate that is in average pairs to about eight euro for every container. Currently in this field of activity a reduction in price of 2,50 euros is applied that the next year will be raised to 3,75 euros.
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