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Throughput at port of Rotterdam up 1 pct in 2014

Xinhua, January 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

The throughput at the port of Rotterdam went up by around 1 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, the Port of Rotterdam Authority announced on Monday.

The total throughput was 444.7 million tonnes, compared to 440.5 million in 2013. The Port of Rotterdam saw the volume of the container sector go up by 5.8 percent and breakbulk go up by 12.1 percent.

However oil products fell by 8.1 percent and had a downward effect on the growth of the port. Crude oil grew by 4.8 percent and dry bulk fell by 0.7 percent.

"In 2015 we expect the same growth in throughput as last year at 1 percent," Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, said in a press release.

"This year the new container terminals on Maasvlakte 2 will be busy starting up," he added. "From 2016 onwards, however, there will actually be extra capacity for further growth."

The port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe. Its neighboring rivals Antwerp and Amsterdam reported a bigger growth percentage recently.

The Belgian port of Antwerp was expected to handle a total of 198.8 million tons of freight by the end of 2014, an increase of 4.2 percentage compared with 2013.

The total transshipment in the port of Amsterdam amounted to 79.7 million tonnes in 2014, an increase of 1.4 percent compared to 2013. Enditem