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Antwerp port throughput record

  • Author:JK
  • Source:CN156
  • Release Date:2016-01-20
AntwerpPort cargo in 2015 passed the first200 million tons markOver the previous year, an increase of nearly 5%. andContainer throughput growth7.5%, to 9.6 million teu. Container and container tonnage quantity showed the biggest growth. In tonnage terms, container throughput by the end of 2015 increased by 4.6% to 113.3 million tons. Ro-ro cargo also rose by 4.1 percent to 4.7 million tons. The traditional dry bulk cargo remained at the same level, an increase of only 1.2%, to 10 million tons.
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Oil derivatives and chemicalsIt helped boost the port's liquid bulk cargo throughput rose 6.1 percent overall to 66.7 million tons, but imports of crude oil fell by 3.4 percent to 4.8 million tons. Port side said, Total, ExxonMobil and investment enhancement Evonik Antwerp's position as Europe's largest integrated petrochemical industrial cluster. Dry bulk cargo in the year grew by 2.2%, to 13.8 million tons. Coal handling increased by 11.8 percent, reaching 1.6 million tons.
A report earlier this month, Hackett and shipping logistics consulting jointly announced economic representation, Antwerp will be one of the few in Europe during 2016 to achieve growth in container traffic port, while the other port shipments will continue to decline. The report predicts that in the next six months, the northern part of the range of port throughput will decrease by 4.1%, compared with the same period in 2015, a decrease of 5.2%. At the same time, the EU is in violation of the Port of Antwerp EU state aid rules, reducing the payment of compensation of its two container terminal operators, in order to enable terminal operators to obtain unfair advantage of more than competitors, to carry out an in-depth investigation. Two operators were PSA and Antwerp portal. In the concession agreement with PSA and Antwerp in the portal, including the minimum requirements for the number of containers handled annually in this port.
2009-2012, PSA and Antwerp Gateway did not meet these minimum requirements of tonnage, according to the agreement obliged to compensate the Port Authority. In March 2013, Antwerp Port Authority retroactively lowered the minimum tonnage requirements, thus reducing the amount of approximately 80% of the compensation paid by the PSA and Antwerp portal.