Port of Hamburg continues to steer a course of records in 2014

Hamburg is growing faster than competing ports in Northern Europe and enlarged its market share of container traffic to 26.7 per cent

With total throughput of around 110 million tonnes, the Port of Hamburg set a new record in the first nine months of 2014. Almost all throughput segments contributed their share to this growth, which at 5.7 per cent was outstanding compared to the same period of the previous year. Container handling, which dominates in Hamburg as a universal port, also achieved a record mark of 7.4 million TEU.

“Hamburg is profiting especially from the double-digit growth in the container trade with Asia. With 12.8 per cent growth, China particularly contributed to the immense boost in seaborne foreign trade for the port. The Port of Hamburg handled 2.3 million TEU containers to and from China in the first nine months of 2014. In direct container trade with Indian ports, in the first three quarters of the year Hamburg achieved a 15.4 per cent advance to 176,000 TEU. Container trade with Africa also made excellent progress, increasing by 28.2 per cent. Here it is primarily the container trades with Northern and South Africa that are ensuring steep growth,” explained Axel Mattern, a member of the Executive Board of Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM).

General cargo throughput of 78.3 million tonnes was the main factor behind the steep rise of 7.9 per cent. Throughput in the conventional general cargo segment, 1.1 per cent higher at 1.44 million tonnes, also developed well in the first nine months. Here it was above all exports of iron and steel, paper and timber that generated throughput growth for Hamburg’s multi-purpose terminals.  At 31,600,000 tonnes, 0.7 per cent growth was reported for the bulk cargo sector.

For this year as a whole, Axel Mattern, a member of Port of Hamburg Marketing’s Executive Board, predicted: “If all goes well, in 2014 we could achieve a 3.6 per cent increase in seaborne cargo throughput and one of between 3.8 and 5.1 per cent on container handling.” This is conditional on further growth in container traffic with China and no further extension of the restraints on Russian trade caused by sanctions. For the Port of Hamburg, this would produce figures of around 144 million tonnes for cargo throughput generally, and of approximately 9.7 million TEU for container handling.

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