Mega container ships boost the Eurogate Group’s business

Eurogate Group saw the highest handling volume in the company’s history; World’s largest container ship MSC Oscar sets the course for Wilhelmshaven
The Eurogate Group increased its container handling volumes across Europe by 4.2 per cent to 14.8 million TEU in 2014. This is the highest handling volume to date in the company’s history. 8.1 million TEU were handled at the German terminals in Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven, equivalent to a rise of 3.5 per cent overall. Eurogate thus underpinned its position as Germany’s largest terminal operator.

Operating activities at the international Eurogate locations developed positively overall. The Italian container terminals managed slight growth of 0.3 per cent. Eurogate Tanger, located directly on the Strait of Gibraltar, raised volumes by a substantial 33.2 per cent. The throughput at the Ust-Luga Container Terminal was also highly encouraging, recording an increase of 68.1 per cent to 103,521 TEUs despite the Russian crisis situation.

The trend among shipping lines to deploy ever larger vessels is continuing. On 16/01/2015, the CSCL Globe (19,100 TEUs) called at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg. On 06/03/2015 the MSC Oscar (19,224 TEUs), currently the largest container ship in the world, is expected at the Eurogate Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven.

Emanuel Schiffer, Chairman of the Eurogate Group Management Board: “The forecasts have proved correct. Our customers are calling at our container ports with ever larger container vessels. In the meantime, orders to build container ships with transport capacities of 22,000 TEU are on the point of being contracted out. We are expecting this trend to continue. It presents considerable challenges for the infrastructure of the seaports as well as the superstructure of the container terminal operators. In the EUROGATE Group we positioned ourselves accordingly several years ago. Something which is highly valued by our customers.”

Quelle: LogEastics
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