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Container volumes continue to grow at unprecedented rates at North Europe’s busiest ports, with Antwerp on course for a sixth successive record year.

In the nine months to September, the Belgian port saw its box volumes climb 6.7% year on year to more than 8.3m teu.

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  • Martyn Benson

    November 04, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    LOST IN TRANSLATION.
    In August the port of Rotterdam handled 136,000 tonnes – a record month??????
    Did they only work one day?
    What were they doing in August in previous years – that represents around 1,000 container loads !

    Surely the Press Office of Rotterdam have got that wrong and they meant to say 136,000 TEUs?????

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