{"id":27699,"date":"2021-07-23T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/trade-recovery-port-of-rotterdam-freight-volumes-rise\/27699\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:59:48","slug":"trade-recovery-port-of-rotterdam-freight-volumes-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/trade-recovery-port-of-rotterdam-freight-volumes-rise\/27699\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Recovery: Port of Rotterdam Freight Volumes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Freight volumes in the port of Rotterdam rose 5.8% on a yearly basis in the first half of 2021, as international trade recovered from its coronavirus slump, Europe&#8217;s largest sea port said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Traffic took a big hit from COVID-19 in the first half of 2020, and despite its recovery, throughput is still not back at levels seen before the outbreak of the pandemic, port authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Improvement was most notable in the shipment of iron ore and coal, which increased more than a third from a year ago on strong demand from steel factories in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Container freight was up almost 9%, despite problems caused by the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week in March, disrupting global trade.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Traffic to and from Rotterdam is set to increase further in the coming months as economic growth recovers across the globe, the port said, although the coronavirus remained a cause of concern.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Edmund Blair)<\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freight volumes in the port of Rotterdam rose 5.8% on a yearly basis in the first half of 2021, as international trade recovered from its coronavirus slump, Europe&#8217;s largest sea port said on Thursday. Traffic took a big hit from COVID-19 in the first half of 2020, and despite its recovery, throughput is still not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2164,953,1520,1575,275,2221,1259],"class_list":["post-27699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-freight","tag-port","tag-recovery","tag-rise","tag-rotterdam","tag-trade","tag-volumes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/27700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}