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Also for the port of Antwerp 2017 have been the year of the records
New historical peaks of the traffics of container, liquid rotabili and bulk
January 17, 2018
Thanks to volumes record of traffic of the goods enlivened in the course of all the year the port of Antwerp it has archived item 2017 celebrating the own new best one turned out anniversary than traffic that it has been pairs to 223,6 million tons, with an increment of +4.4% regarding 2016 when the precedence was achieved record anniversary with 214,1 million tons.
The new historical peak is established thanks to the levels anniversaries record of traffics of the container, the rotabili and the liquid bulk. In the field of the containers the total has been of 123,0 million tons and is realized with a container handling pairs to 10.450.897 teu, with increases respective of +4.3% and +4.1% regarding the precedence record of 117,9 million established tons and 10.037.341 teu in 2016.
Last year in the segment of the rotabili the five threshold is exceeded for the first time million tons enlivened, with an increase of +10.5% regarding the 2016 and with an increment of +5.3% compared to the previous record established in 2012.
The new record in the section of the liquid bulk is of 73,1 million tons, with a rise of +5.7% record of on the previous 69,2 million tons of 2016.
In 2017 the traffic of the goods has marked an increase also conventional that is piled to 10,3 million tons (+4.8% on 2016), while the traffic of the bulk sand banks is dropped of -3,7% attesting itself to the 12,2 million one tons.
The new record obtained absolute anniversary in 2017 is yields also of the new historical record of semiannual traffic realized in the second half of the year with 112,2 million tons, advanced to the precedence record of 111,4 million tons achieved in the first six months of 2017, and the new record of relative traffic to the fourth trimester with 56,5 million tons, total that constitutes an increment of +7.6% record of on the previous 52,5 million tons recorded in the fourth trimester of 2016.
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Thanks to volumes record of traffic of the goods enlivened in the course of all the year the port of Antwerp it has archived item 2017 celebrating the own new best one turned out anniversary than traffic that it has been pairs to 223,6 million tons, with an increment of +4.4% regarding 2016 when the precedence was achieved record anniversary with 214,1 million tons.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
