PORT OF HAMBURG registers 2.9 per cent rise in handling bulk marine cargo

In the first nine months of the year, at 95.8 million tons (MT) the Port of Hamburg achieved a 2.9 per cent rise in seaborne cargo. Bulk cargo throughput advanced especially strongly, being 6.1 per cent ahead at 29.7 MT. Totalling 66.1 MT, in the first three-quarters general cargo throughput was 1.6 per cent ahead. The upward trend was maintained on container handling. A total of 6.5 million TEU-20-ft standard containers were hoisted across the walls of Hamburg’s container terminals, a 2.4 per cent gain. Axel Mattern and Ingo Egloff, HHM, Joint CEOs, Port of Hamburg Marketing, says, “At 709,000 TEU, the Port of Hamburg had recorded the highest quarterly total for containers transported.”