Excerpts from the Journal of Commerce:
The port of Rotterdam will triple the discount on tariffs for deep-sea containers that are transshipped to other ports in Europe over the next three years in a move likely to trigger a response from its main rival Hamburg.
”This stimulates the largest, heavily loaded container ships to call at the port of Rotterdam first when they arrive in Northwest Europe so they can unload part of their cargo, then call at various other ports before coming back to Rotterdam in order to leave Europe fully loaded before their return to Asia,” the authority said.