Container volume reaches the 7 million TEU mark. Good results for conventional/breakbulk and ro/ro.
167,372,296 tonnes of cargo were loaded and unloaded in the port of Antwerp in 2006, an increase of 4.6% compared with the 160 million tonnes in 2005. Imports amounted to nearly 92 million tonnes (up 5.6%), while exports came to more than 75 million tonnes (up 3.3%).