Today the Belgian Statistical Office announced that in the First quarter of this year the national ports have enlivened a traffic of 70.2 million tons of goods, with a decrease in -3.8% on the same period of 2022 which constitutes the third consecutive quarterly decline. In particular, goods exports, which have been decreasing for five quarters, are piled to 31,7 million tons (- 4.7%), while those imports, with 38.5 million tons, marked a reduction of -3.0% on the period January-March last year.

In addition, Statbel has communicated that passenger traffic in the Belgian port ports of call was 1.55 million people (+109.4%), of which 817 thousand on landing (+146.8%) and 737 thousand boarding (+79.3%).