Duisburg increases throughput by 13%

Container throughput at the world’s biggest inland port, Duisburg, grew by 13% in 2014 to 3.4m teu.

Terminal operator Duisport’s head of communications Julian Böcker told CM this was down to the port’s links via the river Rhine, rail and road.

The port has 360 weekly train connections to more than 80 destinations and it works with, rather than competes against, ports like Antwerp and Rotterdam.