Port of Rotterdam Suffers from Economic Downturn
NRC Handelsblad is reporting that container traffic in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, is down 15% and overall shipping traffic down 13.4%. The downturn is expected to continue through the remainder of the year.
This is, or course, reflective of the overall downturn in shipping. The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of the cost of shipping goods, is down to a quarter of what it was a year ago.
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