Hamburg reports no growth in container traffic

The Port of Hamburg, Germany, has announced that its container volumes remained stable in the first nine months of 2016.

Throughput went down by a negligible 0.1%, almost unchanged from the 6.7m teu handled in the first nine months of 2015, with containerised cargo going up by just 0.4% to 69.3 tons.

Axel Mattern, joint CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing, said that the lack of significant growth was primarily attributable to fewer transhipment services with ports in Poland and Sweden.