Container shipping from Belgium to neighbouring countries up 2.7%

According to the Central Rhine Navigation Commission’s (CCNR) market survey, the total inland waterway transport performance in the EU was almost 145 billion tonne-kilometres in 2016. This is a 1% decrease compared to 2015. In Belgium, transport performance remained almost the same. The European Rhine riparian countries Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany represent 85% of the total transport performance of inland navigation in the EU. Belgium’s share of the European inland waterway transport performance is 7%, compared to 37% for Germany and 34% for the Netherlands.