Hamburg marginally up in Q1-Q3

News 19 Nov 2016 by WCN Editorial

At 104.9 Mt, total seaborne cargo throughput for the first three quarters of 2016 was 0.3% up on the previous year

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“Seaborne cargo throughput in the Port of Hamburg has stabilised and for the first three quarters of 2016 again increased, said Axel Mattern, Joint CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing. "Seen separately, the third quarter with a 2.7% upturn to 34.7 Mt underlines the upwards trend. Both general and bulk cargo volumes developed positively for Germany’s largest universal port.”

The successful trend for seaport-hinterland rail transport was also maintained. “By comparison with other leading European ports, in the first three quarters of 2016 Hamburg further expanded freight volumes transported by rail. Transporting 35.5 Mt of freight and 1.8 Mt TEU, representing gains of 3.1% and 1.9%, rail once again achieved a substantial advance,” said Ingo Egloff, the other Joint CEO of Port of Marketing.

In the first nine months of the year container throughput as a whole remained almost at the previous year’s level. Whereas containerised cargo volume advanced 0.4% to 69.3 Mt, at 6.7M TEU the number of boxes handled was down just 0.1%, or almost unchanged. The container traffic with Asia grew by 1%.

Despite the increase in import containers and an overall 0.5% advance for loaded containers, reaching 5.7M TEU in the first three quarters, the slight downturn in TEU terms "is primarily attributable to fewer transhipment services with ports in Poland and Sweden,” said Mattern.