In the first three quarters of 2018, total throughput in the port of Rotterdam was 0.4% lower than in the same period the previous year.
Container volumes continued to grow at a markedly higher pace than the first nine months of 2017 – even recording a new all-time high in August. Wet and dry bulk, however, showed a decline in volume – although LNG and biomass were two positive outliers within these product segments.
All in all, 350 million tonnes of cargo was handled in the port of Rotterdam, a...