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Eemshaven / Delfzijl (dpa / lni) - The ports on the Dutch side of the Ems estuary had to cope with a sharp drop in handling last year.
In Eemshaven and Delfzijl, throughput fell to around ten million tons, as the operating company Groningen Seaports announced on Friday.
In 2019 the ports had to cope with a decline with almost 13 million tons of handling.
The port company cited the reasons for the 2020 slump that, among other things, power plants supplied with coal had switched to other energy sources.
The two ports, which are used as bases for the construction and maintenance of wind farms in the North Sea, also want to benefit from the further expansion of offshore wind energy in 2021, as well as from the settlement of ecologically oriented industrial companies.
The ports see themselves being thwarted by the Dutch package of climate protection measures much more than by the Corona crisis.
Companies were hesitant to make planned investments because there is still no national regulation on the acquisition of emission rights for nitrogen, it said.
At the nine seaports in Lower Saxony, handling in 2019 was just under 53.5 million tons.
The figures for the past year will be published in a few weeks.
The Seaports-of-Niedersachsen-Gesellschaft includes the ports of Brake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade and Wilhelmshaven.
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PM Groningen Seaports, Dutch