Subscribe to RSS feedRotterdam optimism despite 12% slump
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Roger Hailey, London
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Oct 22, 2009 03:30 PM
ROTTERDAM, Europe’s largest port by volume, saw total throughput fall 11.9% in the first nine months of 2009 to 283m tonnes but advised that the cargo downturn has stabilised.
In a general traffic decline affected all but the specialised oil sector, container volumes fell 13% to 7.2m teu while ro-ro traffic slumped 13% to 12m tonnes.
By contrast, the sole positive was in mineral oil products which increased...
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