News / Rotterdam and Antwerp ports tackle congestion, but it's 'too little, too late'

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Barge companies using the Benelux container ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam believe congestion there will get worse before it gets better, as North Europe’s two biggest hubs prepare to receive ultra-large ships brimming with peak season goods.

One senior manager of a Duisburg-headquartered barge operator told The Loadstar today that recent initiatives by the Antwerp and Rotterdam port authorities had been “too little, too late”.

He said: “We have been suffering with severe congestion all through the summer, and now in the last ...