EUROPEAN UNION lawmakers in their three legislative bodies - Council of Europe (member state leaders), European Commission (civil servants) and Parliament (elected members) - are moving to include shipping in their carbon emissions tax scheme rather than wait for the UN to devise global rules, a course the shipping industry prefers.
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam in 2021 matched the pre-pandemic level of 2019. Almost all goods types were up on last year; one of the sharpest rises was the increase in the throughput number of containers. An increase in revenue and lower costs led to an operating result before interest, depreciation and taxes of € 512.2 million (2020: € 477.5 million).