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22 Jul 2021 / Rotterdam, Netherlands

Port rebounds after corona dip

In the first six months of 2021, throughput in the port of Rotterdam was 231.6 million tonnes, a rise of 5.8% compared with the same period last year.

Despite this increase, throughput volume has not yet recovered from last year's corona dip. In the first half of the year, there was primarily an increase in incoming and outgoing flows of iron ore, coal and containers...

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR

  • Total throughput: 231.6 million tonnes (+5.8%).

  • Considerable increase in the throughput of iron ore (+34.4%), coal (+35.8%), break bulk (+10.1%) and containers (+8.7% in TEUs); fall in the throughput of agricultural bulk (-8.9%) and LNG (-4.7%).

  • Successful handling of post-Suez shipping blockage.

  • Concrete steps ahead in the energy transition, thanks in part to financial support (SDE++) for businesses that want to capture and store CO2 using Porthos, and extra production capacity for biodiesel.

  • Increase in Port Authority revenue by 7.5% to € 387.6 million; operating result 16.4% higher at € 174.9 million…

(For information about operations in the Netherlands, contact GAC Netherlands at [email protected])

Source: Extract from Port of Rotterdam news release dated 22 July 2021

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