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The port of Rotterdam will close the 2018 with a traffic container record of 14,5 million teu (+5%)
In the 2019 harbour taxes they will increase of +1%
December 20, 2018
The port of Rotterdam will close the 2018 with a traffic container record pairs to about 14,5 million teu, with an increment of +5% on last year when the precedence was marked the historical maximum peak with beyond 13,7 million teu. It has announced last night the managing director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Allard Castelein, taking part to "the day of the port", the traditional prechristmas encounter with the harbour community that has held to the Nieuwe Luxor Theater di Rotterdam.
Specifying that the traffic of the bulk has instead recorded a bending with a -2% of cargos liquids and a -3% of those solid ones, Castelein it has confirmed the congestion problems that are characterizing the activity of the due port of Rotterdam essentially to the increase of the containerized trade, criticality - it has specified - than are being faced and that they are caused by the arrival of portacontainer more and more large with an ability to beyond 20 thousand teu and that they are also the implication negative of a positive increase that - it has emphasized - has allowed with Rotterdam to conquer market shares between the ports of north-western Europe.
While the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has confirmed that in the 2019 harbour rates they will increase of +1%, as expected from agreed tariff program 2018-2020 in 2017 with the representatives of the harbour operators and the enterprises. Last year the agency has embedded altogether 289,6 million euros of harbour taxes to which they join 14,4 million euros of relative taxes to the carried out activities of inland port from the port of call.
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The port of Rotterdam will close the 2018 with a traffic container record pairs to about 14,5 million teu, with an increment of +5% on last year when the precedence was marked the historical maximum peak with beyond 13,7 million teu. It has announced last night the managing director of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Allard Castelein, taking part to "the day of the port", the traditional prechristmas encounter with the harbour community that has held to the Nieuwe Luxor Theater di Rotterdam.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
