Eurogate’s volumes remain flat

Volumes at Eurogate’s container terminals remained fairly flat in 2017 as throughput fell by 1.4% to just over 14.4m teu.

Losses at the operator’s Hamburg and Ust-Luga terminal, where container volumes dropped by 25.6% and 8.8% respectively, were evened out by gains of 25.9% and 22.9% in Lisbon and Tangier.

Wilhelmshaven also registered a good year with throughput growing by 15.1% to 554,449 teu with 2017 being the second year running the terminal has registered double digit growth.