LA/LB and Tanjung Pelepas celebrate as 2024 port 'winners and losers' revealed
**EDITED AT 14:00 BST 02/04/25 TO INCLUDE QUOTE FROM ANTWERP-BRUGES** Last year’s port throughput “winners and ...
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.
Chief executive Jacques Vandermeiren said: “2018 is already a peak year, not only because of the record figure we can present, but also because of the wave of investments in recent months.
“The significance of these investments [€2bn], ...
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Martyn Benson
November 04, 2018 at 1:36 pmLOST 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?????