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In the third trimester the port of Antwerp has recorded increments of the traffics of container and bulk sand banks
, Instead, goods conventional, down rotabili and cargos liquids
October 17, 2019
In the third trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Antwerp has recorded an increment of +1.0% being piled to 58,2 million tons regarding 58,2 million tons in the period July-september of 2018. The light increase is generated by the increase of +9.4% of the goods containerized that have been attested 35,1 million to tons, with a handling of the containers that has turned out pairs to 3,0 million teu (+9.1%), and by the rise of +12.7% of the solid bulk that has totaled 3,4 million tons. Down, instead, it is the liquid bulk with 17,8 million tons (- 7.5%) are the goods conventional with 1,7 million tons (- 32.6%) that the goods ro-ro with 1,1 million tons (- 8.7%).
In the first nine months of the 2019 Belgian harbour port of call it has enlivened altogether 178,9 million tons of goods, with a progression of +1.1% on the period January-september last year. The containerized cargos are piled to 104,4 million tons (+5.7%) with a handling of the container that has turned out pairs almost 8,9 million teu (+6.4%). The traffic of the rotabili has marked a decrease of -2,1 coming down to the 3,9 million one tons and more emphasized it has turned out the conventional bending of the goods you attest yourself to 6,6 million tons (- 12.9%). The bulk sand banks is increased of +9.5% 10,3 million to tons, increment - it has specified the Harbour Authority of Antwerp - that is attributable mainly to the strong increase of the volumes of coal due to the temporary transfer of the flows of traffic caused from the low level of the water in the river Rhine. The liquid bulk is dropped of 6.2% to 54,1 million tons.
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