{"id":28597,"date":"2021-12-22T23:05:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-rotterdam-expects-container-traffic-to-remain-high-in-2022\/28597\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:05:43","slug":"port-of-rotterdam-expects-container-traffic-to-remain-high-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-rotterdam-expects-container-traffic-to-remain-high-in-2022\/28597\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Rotterdam Expects Container Traffic to Remain High in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Container traffic at the Port of Rotterdam has reached a record level this year and is expected to be high again in 2022, Europe&#8217;s largest sea port said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The port said that it had received 15 million containers this year up until Wednesday, marking the first time a European port had reached that level.<\/p>\n<p>Container freight, measured in the equivalent of twenty-foot long containers (TEU), has increased at least 5% in 2021 from last year, when transport was heavily disrupted for months during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The number of containers handled in Rotterdam dropped 3% in 2020, following the record of 14.8 million TEU set in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect Rotterdam&#8217;s container terminals to remain busy in 2022&#8221;, the port&#8217;s commercial director Emile Hoogsteden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The international fleet of container ships and terminal capacity are not growing enough to meet demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rotterdam received its first container in 1966, and reached the level of 1 million TEU for the first time in 1974. Traffic increased to 5 million containers in 1997 and doubled to 10 million a year in the decade that followed.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Bernadette Baum)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Container traffic at the Port of Rotterdam has reached a record level this year and is expected to be high again in 2022, Europe&#8217;s largest sea port said on Wednesday. The port said that it had received 15 million containers this year up until Wednesday, marking the first time a European port had reached that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597","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=28597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}