Falling transit traffic worries Port of Brussels

Looking only at its own traffic, the Port of Brussels recorded a fine year in 2019. The record figure of 5.2 million tonnes of own traffic of 2018 was maintained in 2019. But the contrast with transit traffic – the goods coming through Brussels without being loaded or unloaded there – is very large. That took a hit of -31.8% in 2019, causing total traffic to drop 9%: from 7.2 million tonnes in 2018 to 6.6 million tonnes in 2019.