Antwerp eyes up French market
Speaking at a ‘Port Day’ organised by Antwerp in Paris at the end of last week, Bruyninckx said that in 2009 some 500,000 teu were carried to and from France and that the Antwerp port community wished to further increase this volume.
Around 16% of all container traffic through Antwerp has France as its origin or destination, with for the port are Lille-Roubaix-Valenciennes and Alsace-Lorraine being important trading regions.
More than half of this volume is carried by road, with the remainder fairly evenly split between barge and rail transport. The Rhine and Moselle in particular are important for barge freight.
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