Port of Hamburg: Up 6.3 percent in container throughput

Growth trend in the Port of Hamburg continued in third quarter 2013; throughput of empty containers has also been rising

As the Port of Hamburg Press Service announces, growth trend in the Port of Hamburg has maintained throughout the third quarter 2013. Container throughput has been rising 6.3 per cent in this period, to 2.4 million TEU. In the first three quarters of the year, container throughput at around 7 million TEU grew only half as strongly with a gain of 3.6 per cent.

The container trades mainly responsible were those with the Baltic, where the feeder trades profited from the East Asia trade’s return to growth. In the first nine months of 2013 around 2.9 million TEU of transhipment cargo was handled in Hamburg for large containerships and feeders. That represents growth of around 10 per cent and a 42 per cent share of all container throughput.

In container handling, the export side totalling 3.3 million TEU (+ 3.8 per cent) produced a faster advance than imports, which at 3.6 million TEU were up by 3.3 per cent. Both on imports and exports, the trend on handling of loaded containers was in general very good: the total of 6 million TEU represented a 4 per cent increase. In the first three quarters of the year, throughput of empty containers rose 0.7 per cent to 938,000 TEU, representing 13.5 per cent of all containers.

Axel Mattern, Port of Hamburg Marketing’s CEO, has positive expectations for 2013 as a whole. On the basis of the current trend in the Port of Hamburg, up to 9.3 million TEU could be handled in the container trade in his view, making 4 per cent growth a possibility for this year.

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