The main driver of the rising volumes was the consolidation of especially the Asian deep sea liner services due to the 2009 crisis, in the port of Rotterdam. In the second half of 2010, because of the the high prices of heavy fuel oil and charter rates of feeder vessels started to gradually pushing back cargo to the northern German ports.
Container trade between Rotterdam and Baltic countries (x 1,000 TEU)
- 2009 2010 Difference +
- Russia 283 446 57%
- Finland 165 224 36%
- Poland 105 141 35%
- Estonia 14 20 46%
- Lithuania 26 36 36%
- Latvia 17 45 159%
- Total 1 610 912 50%
- Sweden (*) 160 234 46%
- Total 2 770 1146 49%
(*) The source of the figures, the Dutch national bureau of statistics, CBS, does not allow to distinct Stockholm from the non-Baltic Swedish ports.