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%.
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