Port of Hamburg Magazin 03 - Hafen Hamburg

Port of Hamburg semi-annual results 2010 < Special
Grafik: HHM
Foto: Hasenpusch
Global foreign trade shows a constant growth trend and brings Germany’s biggest seaport a strong plus in the handling of
seaborne cargo. The result of the first half-year 2010 shows an 8 per cent growth of total cargo handling.
In the Port of Hamburg a total of
58.6 million tons of seafreight
was handeled over in the first halfyear
2010. This comes up to a plus
of 8.1 per cent compared to the previous
year. Especially the strong
growth of imports, which reached a
total of 33.7 million tons, made for
a higher-than-average growth by
12.3 per cent. Exports reached 24.9
million tons in the first half-year
and, thus, increased by 2.9 per cent
compared to the previous year.
Claudia Roller, chief executive officer
Port of Hamburg Marketing e.V.,
the marketing organization of the
Port of Hamburg, reported at the
half-year press conference that both
Foto: Hasenpusch
the handling of seaborne cargo with
a plus of five per cent to 38.8 million
tons and the handling of bulk cargo
with a plus of 14.8 per cent to 19.7
million tons came along pleasingly
positively. „The cargo handling
figures confirm the clear upward
trend in cargo throughput of the
Port of Hamburg“, Claudia Roller
commented. „Also the container
handling that was hit especially
hard in the year of crisis 2009 has
again an upward tendency and
reached with a volume of 3.7 milli -
on TEU in the first half-year a
plus of 4.3 per cent. In June, with
a plus of 16.5 per cent compared
to the previous month following
up on precrisis amounts, we even
could register the best result of
container handling since December
2008.“ The oversea traffic, that
is very important for Hamburg,
shows a considerable increase.
So, container traffics with North
and South America reached a
total of 380,000 TEU and, thus,
a growth by 11.6 per cent. Asia
traffics, that are of special impor -
tance to the Port of Hamburg,
amounted to 2.2 million TEU and,
thus, increased by 6.9 per cent.
Container handling with African
countries climbed up to 96,000
TEU and, thus, reached a plus of
14.7 per cent.“ >>>
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