Container throughput increased by 6.4% in the first nine months of this year at the Port of Antwerp, with the Belgian hub handling 8.87m teu.
Growth mainly came from transhipment volumes, while imports and exports were also on the rise. All trading regions apart from Latin America recorded positive growth.
The recent adjustments to the MSC feeder network, a network of smaller ships that take on freight from larger units in the port for onward transport, were favourable for Antwerp.
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