Traffic Port of Brussels up nearly 10% in first half

Total traffic rose to 3.378 million tonnes. Of this, 2.265 million tonnes (+6.3%) was own traffic and 1.113 million tonnes (+17.2%) transit traffic. Transit traffic experienced a serious rebound after the significant decline in recent years. Port authorities attribute this partly to the fact that there were no significant shipping interruptions on the Antwerp-Brussels-Charleroi axis and to the recovery of flows for blast furnaces.