Port of Hamburg expects also moderate growth for 2012
Seaside trade with Asia, America and the Baltic countries makes Port of Hamburg confident about the future:
Even if the world trade may slow down somewhat, Claudia Roller sees 2012 as producing a moderate upward trend for the Port of Hamburg. “China, Asia, America and the Baltic countries, all of them particularly important foreign markets for Hamburg, do not currently lead us to expect that any collapses in seaborne foreign trade are in the offing,” explains Claudia Roller, CEO of Port of Ham-burg Marketing e.V., when announcing the throughput figures of the first nine months 2011.
A slackening of domestic demand in Europe and the problems of the financial sector, are of European significance as Hamburg’s port industry states, but need not have any direct bearing on forecasts of how worldwide foreign trade as a whole will develop. This goes in line with a call for continued rapid expansion of infrastructure along with the water, rail and road traffic axes. “We cannot afford to lose any time in the tough competition against ports further west and must systematically build up and secure Hamburg’s attractiveness both as a port and a logistics region for the future,” Claudia Roller emphasises.
At 99 million tons, in the first nine months of the year 2011 throughput in the Port of Hamburg advanced by around 11 percent compared to last year. Totalling 6.8 million TEU (up 15.3 per cent), container throughput in Hamburg grew distinctly faster than in the west ports of Antwerp (up 3.1 per cent) and Rotterdam (up 7.7 per cent).
Quelle: LogEastics
Portal: www.logistik-express.com
