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A comparison of Belgian and Dutch ports. Rotterdam is busiest, with 12.3m teu throughput in 2016, but is growing more slowly than Antwerp – 1.2% last year against 4% at the Belgian container port, which handled 10m teu.
“…Antwerp reaped the full benefits of the reshuffling in strategic alliances in liner shipping, including an increase in Far East service calls,” notes the article. It looks at how the alliance shifts have impacted the ports – and gives a comprehensive overview of the numbers involved.
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Dawid Lisowski
February 17, 2021 at 9:32 amport of Rotterdam – especially maasvlakte 2 is so much modern than Antwerp