In the first trimester of the 2020 traffic of the goods in the port of Rotterdam it is dropped of the -9,3%, but the worse one must still come



In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Rotterdam has recorded a decrease of the -9,3%, bending that the Harbour Authority of the Dutch port of call has not attributed if not minimally to the more and more wide spread of the virus Covid-19, pandemic that, however, second the authority could have an impact very more negative on the activity of the port of call in the entire 2020: "the impact of a decrease of the question due to the crisis of the coronavirus - the managing director of the Port of Rotterdam has explained today Authority, Allard Castelein - will become obvious forward from April. He would seem very probable - it has emphasized - than on a yearly basis the decrease of the traffic volume can be of 10-20%. This - it has specified Castelein - will depend on how much time will remain in vigor the measures and from how much fastly they will resume world-wide the productive and commercial activities".

While in the first three months of the 2020 volume of traffic it has turned out of 112,4 million tons regarding 123,9 million tons in the same period last year, contraction that is generated by a bending of the -11,2% of cargos to the disembarkation, that they are piled to 77,0 million tons, and by a reduction of the -4,8% of those to the disembarkation, attesting to 35,4 million tons.

In the single field of the container the total traffic, in terms of weight, has remained stable to 37,9 million tons (- 0.3%), with a handling of containers that has turned out pairs to 3.549.670 teu, decreasing of -4,7%. Decreasing also the other goods conventional that has totaled 7,4 million tons (- 6.5%), of which 5,9 million tons of rotabili (- 7.3%) and 1,4 million conventional tons of goods (- 3.2%).

The liquid bulk is dropped of the -13,9% to 50,3 million tons, included 25,8 million tons of oil crude oil (- 8.0%), 14,2 million tons of producing oil refined (- 32.8%), 2,1 million tons of natural gas which liquified (+17.9%) and 8,3 million tons of other cargos liquids (+9.3%).

In the section of the solid bulk the total has been of 16,7 million tons (- 13.9%), of which 6,8 million tons of minerals and +15.7% scrap (), 4,5 million tons of coal (- 39.6%), 2,5 million tons of agricultural bulk (- 6.1%) and 3,0 million tons of other bulk sand banks (- 14.3%).

Relatively to previewed the next ulterior reduction of the traffic, the Harbour Authority has announced that in the field of the container the ability to the fleet employed on the routes between Asia and Europe is enduring a cut pairs to the -25% approximately and this will in the quarter have a meaningful impact on the activity of the port of Rotterdam in course. The traffic of the rotabili, instead, directly is influenced by the decline of the economic activities in existence in Europe and the harbour agency previews that soon the volumes enlivened in this segment from the Dutch port will be meaningfully more low sinché will remain in vigor the measures of block in vigor in various nations. Moreover the authority previews that also the volumes of traffics of coal and destined iron mineral to the industry German iron worker will diminish as a result of the fall of the question by the automotive industry and of the field of the constructions. At last the harbour agency considers that if smaller the question of transport of producing oil will reduce the necessity of crude oil supplyings, however the volatility in the oil market could in this field generate higher flows of traffic.