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The port of Rotterdam says its throughput in 2021 matched the pre-pandemic level of 2019. Almost all goods types were up last year; one of the sharpest rises being in containers, which reached a record 15.3 million teu.
Total throughpuyt at the port, across all container and bulk segments was up 7.3%.
There were 10% fewer visits by large container vessels but they unloaded an average of 20% more containers on each ...
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The port of Rotterdam said on 7 May that it had process almost all the vessels caught up in the Suez Canal after the grounding of the Ever Given on 23 March. The port authority said that 54 vessels had now been processed, with two ongoing, three cancelled, one is ...
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Port of Rotterdam Authority has appointed Boudewijn Siemons as chief operating officer and joins the executive board. Until recently, he was president of Royal Vopak’s Americas division. and succeeds Ronald Paul at the port authority.
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority is to publish a request for tenders to operate an internal rail system between its container terminals, using a purpose-built line. The successful company would both supply hybrid traction and operate the actual transport.
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The European Commission is determined to push through measures to increase competition for a range of services in the port sector - though not cargo handling - in its new ports package published on 23 May.
The package would apply to the 300 or so ports that are designated as part ...
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