{"id":9433,"date":"2015-10-15T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/10\/15\/antwerp-bucks-downturn-trends\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:51:09","slug":"antwerp-bucks-downturn-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/bulk-handling\/antwerp-bucks-downturn-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp bucks downturn trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a steady growth in the volume of container freight, and liquid bulk up 7.9%, the port is poised to close the year with a total volume of 200 tonnes. <\/p>\n<p>The container volume rose by 7,265,577 teu and Antwerp is winning the market share on all trading routes. The ro-ro volume was up by 2.5% to 3,463,315 tonnes, although the number of cars handled was down by 9.7%.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of liquid bulk volume rose during the past nine months by 7.9% to 49,791,570 tonnes. The strongest growth during the first three quarters of the year was achieved by the chemicals sector which rose 23.7%.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the first nine months the dry bulk volume had risen by 2.4% to 10,481,166 tonnes. Sand and gravel rose a strong 27.7%, while the coal volume struggled within the second quarter, but still managed a growth of 12.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the port saw a total of 10,786 seagoing ships call through within the past nine months, which is 2.5% more than at the same period last year. This increases the gross tonnage for this area by 7.7%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Antwerp looks to be in line for a record breaking year, having handled 156,515,552 tonnes of freight in the first nine months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulk-handling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}