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Good performances for Le Havre port traffic with + 27.8 % for containers
2007-12-07
At the end of the first ten months of the year 2007, Le Havre port traffic records good performances with, especially, a 27.8 % growth of containerised tonnage at 22.0 Mt and more globally speaking, a 6.0 % rise of all tonnage handled with 65.4 million tonnes (provisional figures including bunkering and ship stores).
Container trade recorded excellent results in October 2007, with a 34.8 % rise in tonnes against the same month in 2006 (that is 2.5 Mt against 1.8 Mt in 2006). In number of TEU, a monthly record was reached with, for the first time, 250,000 TEU handled (+ 29.2 % against October 2006). Since the beginning of the year 2007, container traffic accounts for 2.22 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEU), that is + 26.4 % against the corresponding period in 2006. This is a result higher than the yearly traffic for 2006 both in tonnage and in number of TEU.
Another component of Le Havre port business, dry bulks saw their tonnage rise by + 21.8 % to 3.8 Mt including 2.0 Mt of coal (+ 15.4 %). As for liquid bulks, they record a fall by 4.2 % to 37.7 Mt at end October 2007, mainly owing to the impact of the five-year scheduled stoppage of the Normandy refinery on the business for the last two months. Trades of crude oil and refined products then record a respective decrease by 5.1 % and 3.9 % in tonnage with 27.0 Mt and 9.1 Mt after the first ten months of 2007.
Cross-Channel traffic remained very sustained with a number of passengers rising by 34.9 % against the corresponding period in 2006 to reach 326,000 passengers at end October 2007.
Container trade recorded excellent results in October 2007, with a 34.8 % rise in tonnes against the same month in 2006 (that is 2.5 Mt against 1.8 Mt in 2006). In number of TEU, a monthly record was reached with, for the first time, 250,000 TEU handled (+ 29.2 % against October 2006). Since the beginning of the year 2007, container traffic accounts for 2.22 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEU), that is + 26.4 % against the corresponding period in 2006. This is a result higher than the yearly traffic for 2006 both in tonnage and in number of TEU.
Another component of Le Havre port business, dry bulks saw their tonnage rise by + 21.8 % to 3.8 Mt including 2.0 Mt of coal (+ 15.4 %). As for liquid bulks, they record a fall by 4.2 % to 37.7 Mt at end October 2007, mainly owing to the impact of the five-year scheduled stoppage of the Normandy refinery on the business for the last two months. Trades of crude oil and refined products then record a respective decrease by 5.1 % and 3.9 % in tonnage with 27.0 Mt and 9.1 Mt after the first ten months of 2007.
Cross-Channel traffic remained very sustained with a number of passengers rising by 34.9 % against the corresponding period in 2006 to reach 326,000 passengers at end October 2007.