Port Hamburg steers a growth course again
Container handling at Port of Hamburg grew 12.7 per cent to 7.9 million TEU in the year 2010
Germany’s biggest universal port Hamburg leaves the global financial and economic crisis behind. With 121 million tons in 2010, the reference figure of the previous year was exceeded by almost 10 per cent. The pleasant development of Germany’s economy and the recovery of the market regions in the Baltic Sea and in Eastern Europe in the course of the year 2010 led to important increases on 2009 in general cargo as well as bulk cargo handling. As for container traffic 7.9 million TEU (up 12.7 per cent) went across Hamburg’s quays in the reporting period. Liner traffic with Asia accounted for 4.7 million TEU thereof (up 14.1 per cent). Conventional general cargo handling rose 5.4 per cent to 2.6 million tons. In particular exported project loads and vehicles contributed with 1.1 million tons thereof (up 19.5 per cent). Bulk throughput grew 9.5 per cent to 40.3 million tons. Claudia Roller, CEO Hafen Hamburg Marketing e.V. (HHM): „The global economic and financial crisis led to a fierce decline of sea cargo throughput in 2009 in Hamburg. In 2010 we could not attain the volumes we targeted and in spite of the good recovery in the second half of the year 2010, we did not yet reach the pre-crisis level in container traffic. Due to available economic data we expect to tie into the record figures from 2008 in the first half of the year 2012.“ For 2011 Hamburg’s port industry expects the growing external economy in Eastern Europe and Russia combined with a growing German external economy will lead to a positive development in sea cargo throughput at the Hamburg universal port. Moreover the Peoples Republic China, the most important foreign trade partner of the Port of Hamburg in container traffic, has been providing growing goods flows in sea traffic since 2010. Quelle: LogEastics |