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the port of Antwerp has closed the first semester and according to trimester of 2017 with record of traffic of the container and the liquid bulk
Altogether in the first half of this year the Belgian port of call has enlivened 111,4 million tons (+2.8%)
July 18, 2017
In according to trimester of the 2017 port of Antwerp has enlivened almost 57,1 million tons, volume that the new record of absolute quarterly traffic of the Belgian port represents and that 2016 with the 55,0 million one tons are advanced of +3.6% regarding the precedence record established in according to trimester of.
the new quarterly record is recorded thanks to the absolute peak of containerized trade is in terms of tons that of teu enlivened, figures that have been pairs to 31,5 million tons and 2.662.373 teu, with increments respective of +3.0% and +2.9% regarding the precedence records obtained in according to trimester of 2016.
the record marked in according to trimester of 2017 is reached graces also to the absolute peak of the liquid bulk traffic that has been attested 18,4 million to tons, with an increase of +4.0% on the precedence record established in according to trimester last year.
Besides these volumes record is recorded increases also of the conventional traffics of goods, that they have totaled 2,8 million tons (+17.4%), and of rotabili cargos, that pairs to 1,3 million tons (+8.7% have been), while in decrease of the -4,4% has turned out the traffic of the solid bulk that is come down to 3,0 million tons.
Also the entire volume of traffic of the goods enlivened in the first semester of 2017, pairs to 111,4 million tons, constitutes the new absolute semiannual record of the port of Antwerp and is advanced of the +2,8 regarding the precedence record of 108,3 million tons marked in the first half of 2016.
Also the new semiannual record is determined by the new absolute peaks of traffic of the container and traffic of the liquid bulk, that they have exceeded the precedence stable records in the first six months of 2016 and that they have turned out pairs for containerized cargos to 61,3 million tons (+2.6%) and 5.143.305 teu (+1.9%) and for cargos liquids to 36,0 million tons (+1.8%).
In the first half of the 2017 traffic of the goods conventional has grown of +13.1% to 5,4 million tons, that of the rotabili is increased of +9.2% 2,6 million to tons and in rise it has turned out also the traffic of the bulk sand banks that are piled to 6,1 million tons (+1.1%).
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In according to trimester of the 2017 port of Antwerp has enlivened almost 57,1 million tons, volume that the new record of absolute quarterly traffic of the Belgian port represents and that 2016 with the 55,0 million one tons are advanced of +3.6% regarding the precedence record established in according to trimester of.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
