Photo: A container terminal is seen in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Michael Kooren/File Photo
There isn’t enough demand for halal logistics in Europe, officials of the region’s four busiest ports have told Salaam Gateway.
“The port authorities don’t have current or future plans regarding halal logistics,” Tie Schellekens, Press Officer for the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's busiest port by container traffic, told Salaam Gateway.
Port of Rotterdam had put in a lot of effort to promote halal warehousing in the early 2000s but has stopped offering it due to insufficient demand, according to Schellekens. “Ten years later, halal warehousing proved to be not successful,” he said.
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Ali Bahnasawy