Record first nine months of the year for Hamburg

Europe’s second busiest port, the Port of Hamburg, has posted record figures for the first nine months of the year, with container handling throughput at 7.4m teu, a 6.4% rise.

Driven by trade with Asia, and more specifically China, the German port enlarged its market share of container traffic in Northern Europe from 26.1% to 26.7% over the period from January to September.

The figures compare to overall container handling growth of 4% over the given timeframe in Northern Europe. Total throughput increased by 5.7% in Hamburg to 110m tonnes, which surpassed the regional equivalent of 1.9%.