Belgium's key port of Antwerp has posted its fifth consecutive year of record cargo volumes.
It handled 223.6m tonnes of freight in 2017, an increase of 4.4% from 2016.
Container volumes rose 4.3% to 123m tonnes, while liquid bulk cargoes such as oil derivatives increased 5.7% to 73.1m.
Conventional breakbulk such as steel was up 4.8% at 10.3m tonnes, while ro-ro growth was 10.5%
