The port of Rotterdam has concluded the 2017 with a traffic record of 467,3 million tons (+1.3%)



Last year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Rotterdam is piled to 467,3 million tons, that it constitutes the new record historical anniversary of the Dutch harbour port of call being advanced to the precedence record of 466,4 million tons established in 2015. The traffic enlivened in 2017 represents an increase of +1.3% on the 2016 that is generated by the rise of +3.9% of the volumes enlivened in the first half of 2017 - and in particular from marked +5.8% in according to trimester - to which an light bending of the activity that in the second half of the year it is diminished of the -1,2%, with a -0,6% totaled in the solo is continuation fourth trimester.

In the 2017 total traffic to the disembarkation it has been pairs to 323,9 million tons (+0.9% on the 2016) and that to the boarding to 143,4 million tons (+2.5%).

The increase of the obtained total traffic in the entire 2017 is produced by the increase of the volumes enlivened in the field of the goods several, with the containerized trade that has marked the own new record anniversary being is pairs to 142,6 million tons (+12.3%) and is realized with a handling record of containers pairs to 13.734.334 teu (+10.9%), advanced figures to the precedence records obtained respective in 2014 with the 127,6 million one tons and 2016 with 12.385.168 teu and that they confirm the port of Rotterdam to the eleventh position in the ranking of the main world-wide ports container. Moreover last year the new record of traffic of the rotabili with 23,8 million tons is established also, with a progression of +6.2% record of on the previous 22,4 million tons of 2016. The other goods several tons (+9.8% have been attested almost 6,5 million).

In the 2017 traffic of the liquid bulk it is dropped of -4,1% to the 214,3 million one tons, of which 104,2 million tons of oil crude oil (+2.3%), 79,2 million tons of producing oil (- 10.8%), 2,0 million tons of natural gas which liquified (+16.5%) and 28,9 million tons of other cargos liquids (- 7.3%).

In the section of the solid bulk the traffic is piled to 80,2 million tons (- 2.6%), with 31,2 million tons of minerals and scrap (- 0.2%), 25,7 million tons of coal (- 9.5%), 11,1 million tons of agricultural bulk (+6.6%) and 12,1 million tons of other solid bulk (- 0.6%).

In the solo fourth trimester of the 2017 Dutch port has enlivened altogether 115,8 million tons of goods, with a bending of the -0,6% regarding 116,5 million tons in the period October-December of the year precedence. The goods to the disembarkation pairs to 79,3 million tons (- 2.4%) and those to the boarding to 36,5 million tons (+3.5% have been). The total traffic of containerized cargos has been of 36,8 million tons (+13.9%) and is totaled with a container handling pairs to 3.535.511 teu (+13.4%), while the general traffic of the other goods is gone up of +0.8% to 7,3 million tons, of which 5,9 million tons of rotabili (+5.1%) and 1,4 million tons of other cargos (- 13.7%).

In the last trimester last year the liquid bulk has been 52,7 million tons (- 4.0%), of which 25,3 million tons of oil crude oil (- 1.4%), 19,5 million tons of producing oil (- 8.8%), 694 thousand tons of natural gas which liquified (+86.1%) and 7,3 million tons of other liquid bulk (- 3.7%). In the field of the solid bulk the total has been of 19,0 million tons (- 13.6%), with 7,7 million tons of minerals and scrap (- 2.8%), 5,9 million tons of coal (- 26.9%), 2,3 million tons of agricultural bulk (- 15.9%) and 3,1 million tons of other bulk sand banks (- 5.4%).