Flemish ports do better together than in 2008

Last year, Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend and Zeebrugge (according to still partly provisional figures) together handled more than 269 million tonnes of maritime cargo. That is over 2 million tonnes more than the nearly 267 million tonnes the four ports recorded in 2008. That was the end point of a steep climb that had given them as much as 50 million tonnes of additional maritime throughput in four years (in 2004, the combined tally stood at almost 217 million tonnes.