Rotterdam throughput soars

The number of containers handled at Rotterdam increased by 10.1% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2017.

Europe’s biggest container port handled 10.2m teu in this period with the increase coming mainly from full rather than empty containers.

In a statement, the port attributed the growth to a number of factors: “These include solid autonomous growth in Europe combined with Rotterdam’s favourable position within the new sailing schedules recently adopted by the major alliances, increased productivity and throughput volumes at the Maasvlakte 2 terminals”.