Port of Hamburg publish strong first quarter figures

18 May 2011 - Terminal Handling

• Port of Hamburg publishes first quarter figures for year

• Port achieves growth of 18% container throughput

• Seaborne cargo throughput up 9.8%

In the first three months of 2011 the Port of Hamburg achieved above-average growth of 18.2 percent in container throughput and a 9.8 percent gain in total seaborne cargo throughput.

Whereas the Western ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp reported increases in container throughput for the same period of 2011 of 10.1 and 7.9 percent, respectively, with throughput of 2.1 million TEU growth for the Port of Hamburg reached 18.2 percent.

Hamburg accordingly regained market shares and extended its position as the Northern European hub for container traffic.

On 18 May Port of Hamburg Marketing, the port’s marketing organization, published throughput figures for the Port of Hamburg in the first quarter of 2011. Total seaborne cargo throughput in Germany‘s largest universal port reached 31.4 million tons (+ 9.8 percent).

 

“We are delighted by this excellent throughput figure for the Port of Hamburg and see the main reasons behind above-average growth in container throughput as being the unusually strong increase on the container trade routes to and from Asia as well as the Baltic region," explained Claudia Roller, CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing.

 

In the first three months of 2011, 1.3 million TEU (+ 15.7 percent) were handled in seaborne container traffic with Asia. This especially important region of our market therefore accounted for 56 percent of total growth in container throughput for the first three months of 2011,” Claudia concluded.