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In 2019, the Port of Vancouver set its new historic container traffic record
New peak also of cruises
March 2, 2020
Overall, the traffic of goods moved last year year from Canada's main port on the Pacific is instead decreased by -2.0% to 144.16 million decrease, which was generated by the reductions in -25.5% of liquid bulks, at 8.60 million -5.7% of conventional goods, which have 17.16 million tonnes, and -1.2% of traffic 420,000 vehicles. Bulks were up 0.9% with a total of 91.14 million tons
Last year, the total traffic of goods at the landing was 30.15 million tonnes (up 0.4%) goods 114.01 million tonnes (-2.6%).
The new containerized traffic record obtained from the port Vancouver essentially produced itself in the first half 2019 as in the second half of the year in all main product segments were marked Bending. In the July-December period of 2019, in fact, the airport handled a total of 71.66 million tonnes of goods, with a contraction of -4.4% over the same period of the year 12.95 million tonnes of goods containers (-3.6%) container handling of 1,700,483 teu (-3.3%), 45.87 million tonnes of solid bulk (-1.0%), 4.30 million tonnes of liquid bulk (-24.7%), 8.34 million tonnes of conventional goods (-10.2%) and 192 thousand tonnes of cars (up 2.4%).
In the whole of 2019, the Canadian port has set another record historical: that of cruise traffic which, with a total of less than 1.1 million passengers, saw an increase in 20.4% in 2018.
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