Transhipment in the ports in the North Sea Canal area– Amsterdam, IJmuiden, Beverwijk and also Zaanstad– dropped by 10.7% to 48.7 million tonnes (2019: 54.6 million) in the initial 6 months of this year. The influence of the worldwide coronavirus situation on the transshipment numbers is clear.
Transshipment additionally dropped in the port of Amsterdam throughout the initial 6 months of 2020. The quantity decreased from 45.2 million tonnes in the initial fifty percent of 2019 to 39.8 million tonnes this year (-12%). This decline was additionally plainly an outcome of the coronavirus pandemic.
Vital facilities
Koen Overtoom, Chief Executive Officer of Port of Amsterdam, states, “For the first time in years we have seen a reduction in the transshipment in our port, and it is a significant one. However, we are not pessimistic. In the first half of the year, we have shown in difficult conditions how crucial the port is for the region and for the country. As vital infrastructure, we have continued to manage shipping traffic and to handle cargo flows, without letup . We have thereby contributed to keeping the country and the economy running.”
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“Our distribution clients in particular have had a strong six months, with the distribution of foodstuffs and packages. The market for transport fuels (petrol, kerosene etc.) is now recovering. It is hard to say what the second half of the year will look like. The fuels market is too fickle for that, and the impact of the coronavirus is uncertain. We do anticipate that in the current conditions the shortfall in volume for the year as a whole, will remain limited to the level that we have seen in the first six months,” states Overtoom.
Increases and also lowers
The decrease in Amsterdam in the initial 6 months was attributable to both fluid and also completely dry mass and also containers. The transshipment of fluid mass (mostly transportation gas) dropped by 5.1% to 24.7 million tonnes, contrasted to 26 million tonnes over the very same duration in 2014. Despite lowered aeronautics and also roadway website traffic, the quantities of transportation gas continued to be fairly continuous. This is because of the changing market for these freight streams, which leads to continuous activity.
The quantity of completely dry mass dropped by 21.2%, which remained in specific as a result of a significant decrease in coal to 4.6 million tonnes, contrasted to 8.2 million tonnes in 2014 (-43.6%). The unforeseen, non-structural development in 2014 magnified the decrease in coal quantity this year. The transshipment of grains additionally dropped (-15.4%), and also there was a decrease in break mass (-18.2%).
Sea and also river cruise ship additionally stopped as an outcome of the coronavirus pandemic. Port of Amsterdam chose, in assessment with the Amsterdam Amstelland Safety Region, to put on hold cruise liner from the port from mid-March onwards, in order to reduce the threat of infection. The port has actually been open to cruise liner once again given that mid-June, and also the variety of check outs from river cruise liner is enhancing gradually and also very carefully. There were 21 check outs in the initial fifty percent of the year, of which 18 in January and alsoFebruary The port of Amsterdam anticipates to invite even more river cruise liner in the 2nd fifty percent of the year. On the various other hand, currently the port does not expect sea cruise ship vessels returning in the 2nd fifty percent of the year either.
Container transshipment dropped by 31.6%.This freight circulation had actually expanded progressively in recent times, partially as an outcome of the emphasis of the port of Amsterdam on short-sea lines. The decrease can for that reason additionally be credited to the coronavirus, which caused arranged solutions being partially put on hold.
Varied image throughout the area
Transshipment in IJmuiden dropped a little, by just 3.4% to 8.76 million tonnes. In Beverwijk the transshipment quantity dropped by 44.3% to 194,000 tonnes, and also Zaanstad saw a 15.3% rise in transshipment to 84,000 tonnes.
Reference: portofamsterdam.com
