Port of Rotterdam increase tariffs by 0.5pc in 2016
Time：2015-11-13
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Under the three-year agreement made last year between Deltalinqs, VRC, VNPI and the Port Authority on changes to the port tariffs, the parties agreed to allow an increase in tariffs equal to half of the inflation rate, with a maximum of 1 per cent per annum, for a period of three years. In addition, the Port Authority offers incentives to encourage specific sectors, such as container transshipment.
In the container sector, the Port Authority is aiming to boost the number of transshipment containers. After these containers arrive by sea-going vessel, they travel directly from the terminal to another European port by sea. The port tariff for such a container is about EUR8 (US$8.60) on average.
The current discount of EUR2.50 will be increased to EUR3.75 in 2016 per deepsea container. For feeder containers, the existing transshipment discount of EUR2.50 per container will remain in place for the coming two years.
"In this way, the Port Authority wants to encourage the market to ship a lot more transshipment cargo via Rotterdam. It also maintains the extra incentive for container vessels to call at Rotterdam twice whenever they visit Europe," the port said.
When deepsea container vessels (sailing between continents) visit the second time, the tariff is 25 per cent of the normal rate. This encourages the largest, heavily laden container vessels arriving in Northwest Europe to first call at Rotterdam to unload part of their cargo, then dock in a few other ports before returning to Rotterdam on their way back to Asia, so that they can leave Europe fully laden.
In conformity with the three-year agreement made with the VNPI, the tariff for tankers carrying crude oil will remain 1.5 per cent below inflation again in 2016. This means a 0.5 per cent fall in the tariff in 2016.
The existing discount for clean ships, the Environmental Ship Index (ESI), will be continued. Ships that score 31 points on the index receive a 10 per cent discount on the ship section of the port tariff. This discount is doubled if ships have relatively low nitrogen emissions. This means that a ship must score at least 31 points on the NOx emission section of the ESI.