Antwerp up 3.3% in first nine months

“We do not sell these products ourselves; it is the demonstrators themselves that decide who they partner up with,” the port said in the statement to WorldCargo News.

The relative good behaviour will be related to the EUR 1,000 per person fine that Antwerp-Bruges and North Sea Port have secured before court earlier this week.

Tuesday (13 February) saw disgruntled farmers use their tractors to blockade roads around Europe’s second largest container port, Antwerp, severely disrupting traffic flows into the port and affecting overall cargo-handling operations.

Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges, which are Europe’s two largest container ports, have both suffered declines in their throughputs for the first nine months of 2023. Overall traffic at both ports was also down on the same period of 2022.

The Netherlands and Colombia are preparing a treaty to intensify bilateral cooperation in the fight against drugs trafficking.

Combined throughput of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, which were formally merged in April 2022, was just 0.7% down on their throughputs in 2021, although container business suffered