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Rise of the traffic of the goods in the Swiss ports on Reno
Handling of the container has been pairs to 31.860 teu (+48.3%)
May 9, 2018
In the first trimester of the 2018 traffic of the goods enlivened in the Swiss ports on the Rhine it is piled to 1,33 million tons, with an increment of +13.7% regarding 1,17 million tons in the first three months last year. The increase is consequence also of the comparazione with a period - the first trimester of 2017 - in which the traffic had marked a decided decrease of the -29,5% caused from the low level of water of the river and from the increase of the competition capacity from the rail shipment. The traffic enlivened in the first three months of this year decreasing turns out of the -19,8% if compared with the first trimester of 2016.
In the first three months of 2018, between the main types of goods enlivened by the Swiss fluvial ports of call, the oil produced ones are piled to 555 thousand tons (+1.1% on first trimester 2017 and -31,2% on first trimester 2016), the stone cargos, lands and materials from construction to 226 thousand tons (+50.0% on first trimester 2017 and +1.5% on first trimester 2016), food to 114 thousand tons (+14.5% on first trimester 2017 and -27,1% on first trimester 2016) and chemicals to 81 thousand tons (+9.7% on first trimester 2017 and -1,6% on first trimester 2016).
In the field of the container the traffic has been pairs to 31.860 teu, with a progression of +48.3% on the first trimester of 2017 and +10.8% on the first trimester of 2016.
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