‘Merkel wants to ban British travelers for Delta variant’ • Goods throughput not so low since crisis crisis

The arrival and departure of goods in Dutch seaports fell to almost 558 million tons last year. That was 8 percent less than in 2019 and the largest decrease since the economic crisis of 2009. This is according to new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS).

Due to the corona crisis, the transport of dry and liquid bulk goods in particular decreased. This involved, for example, crude oil and oil products such as heating oil, gas oil and diesel. There was less demand for this due to less flying and generally less travel due to the pandemic. For example, coal from the United States and ores from Brazil were also supplied less. Steel production in Germany had fallen sharply due to the crisis.

Transhipment in the port of Rotterdam has now picked up somewhat, the Port of Rotterdam Authority reported in April. Recovery already started in the first quarter of this year, for example because there was a demand for energy due to the cold winter. But the company expected early this year did not mean that trade would return to pre-pandemic levels this year.

Almost 98 percent of the containers in the Netherlands are unloaded and loaded in the port of Rotterdam.

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