Port of Antwerp ready to make another record throughput
Throughput continues to grow in the Port of Antwerp, as the total throughput after nine months is 177,026,550 tonnes, a 6% increase compared with the same period last year. With these results, the port is on track for the sixth consecutive record year.
Throughput continues to grow in the Port of Antwerp, as the total throughput after nine months is 177,026,550 tonnes, a 6% increase compared with the same period last year. With these results, the port is on track for the sixth consecutive record year.
Container traffic grew by 7.1%, while in terms of TEUs, throughput increased by 6.8%.
Throughput for the largest shipping area, Europe, registered the strongest growth: 12.4%. Throughput for North America grew by 8.2% and for Asia by 2.2%. Imports from China are more or less the same, while exports are 6.7% less.
In addition, the breakbulk throughput is recovering and has recorded a slightly positive figure.
The total Ro-Ro grew by 5.6%, with the number of passenger vehicles shipped after nine months being more by 4.1%.
The conventional breakbulk cargo still reported a loss of 6.5%, but the loss on an annual basis was limited to 2.7%. The reason for this is a recovery in iron and steel imports.
Iron and steel exports were up by 4.9% after 9 months, with iron and steel exports to the US up by 8%. The total throughput of iron and steel increased by 1.9%.
As for liquid bulk it increased 5.7%. Imports grew by 9.1% and exports by 0.5% which is a considerable recovery after a reduction of 12.2% in the first quarter.
The throughput of crude oil was less by 7.1%, while that of petroleum derivatives (+6%) and chemicals (+10.1%) spurred the liquid bulk.
The throughput of dry bulk was more by 1%, due to the bigger transhipment of fertilizers (+11.2%), sand and gravel (+23.9%) and coal (+3,3%), because the other traffic are currently posting a drop.
Finally, 10,901 seagoing vessels (+1.9%) called at the Port of Antwerp in the last 9 months. The gross tonnage of vessels that called at Antwerp increased by 2.3%.
