{"id":1485,"date":"2009-03-16T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2009\/03\/16\/strong-amsterdam-figures-re-affirm-need-for-second-lock\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:41","slug":"strong-amsterdam-figures-re-affirm-need-for-second-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/strong-amsterdam-figures-re-affirm-need-for-second-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Amsterdam figures re-affirm need for second lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study into the proposals for a second lock has just been completed and the project has now moved into cost and finance investigations, said a spokeswoman for the port authority.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The study underlined the need for the second lock both locally and nationally,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Amsterdam Port Area, including the ports of Velsen\/Ijmuiden, Beverwijk, Zaanstad and Amsterdam, turned in a strong performance for 2008, with throughput up 8.2% to 94.8m tonnes. The Port of Amsterdam led the way with an increase of 11.6% to 75.8m tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation of the definitive figures for November and December came as a pleasant surprise, said Mr Gerson. &#8220;Both the Amsterdam Port Area and the Port of Amsterdam achieved the strongest growth in Europe in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how the recession will affect the various sectors of the port, he said. &#8220;But the general expectation is that the Port of Amsterdam will weather the economic storm fairly unscathed. That optimistic forecast is based on recent investments in terminal capacity, particularly in the energy sector, as well as the broad spectrum of goods passing through Amsterdam.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The urgent need for a second large sea lock in Ijmuiden is making itself felt ever more acutely, according to Port of Amsterdam chief executive Hans Gerson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}