Almost one quarter of the freight discharged from containers in the port of Rotterdam originates from China, according to Statistics Netherlands. The number of containers arriving from the world’s second-largest economy rose by 9% last year. Despite the decline in the Chinese economy, this increase is continuing this year, Statistics Netherlands says.
In the port of Rotterdam a total of 54 million tonnes of freight was discharged from containers in 2014. After China (12.2 million tonnes) come Singapore (3.2), the United States (3.0), the United Kingdom (2.8), Russia (2.2), Brazil (2.2), Ireland (2.0), Malaysia (1.7), Sweden (1.6) and Hong Kong.
The total volume of container freight is placed on the quays at Rotterdam in almost four million containers. This means the total number of containers has increased by more than 6% compared with 2013. The number of containers from China rose by 9% in 2014, forming one quarter of all containers that were discharged in Rotterdam.
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