The Port of Hamburg handled 9.9 million TEU, up 11.6 per cent a record year on year increase largely credited to the dredging of the River Elbe that opened the harbour to the burgeoning transshipment trade to the Baltic, RZD-Partner reports.
"After the last dredging, Hamburg's market share of the container traffic volume of the North Range ports in Europe has risen from 22 to 26 per cent," said the port marketing man Juergen Sorgenfrei.
Feeder links to the Baltic and eastern Europe outperformed other transport routes in 2007 with a growth rate of 21.2 per cent, port authorities said in a release.
Hamburg's container traffic with Russia amounted to 730,000 TEU, up 21.6 per cent over the previous year, making Russia Hamburg's third largest container trading partner.
Seaborne traffic between Hamburg and the Baltic Sea states generated a transhipment volume of 2.7 million TEU in 2007, up 11.7 per cent compared with 2006. Finland was Hamburg's fourth largest trading partner with 502,000 TEU, Sweden fifth with 390,000 TEU, and Poland seventh with 325,000 TEU. Singapore was ranked second with 749,000 TEU.
The volume of Hamburg's container traffic on the Asian sea routes rose by about 722,000 TEU from 2006 to 2007. This represents an increase of 14.9 per cent. East Asia and Southeast Asia each recorded double-digit growth rates in 2007, at 16.5 per cent (3.9 million TEU) and 12.2 per cent (1.0 million TEU), respectively.
In traffic with India alone, last year a volume of 150,000 TEU was handled in ocean-going trade via Hamburg, an increase of 48 per cent year-on-year. Last year, Hamburg's container terminals handled 3.2 million TEU in trade with China, up 23 per cent, making China Hamburg's top trading partner.
"After the last dredging, Hamburg's market share of the container traffic volume of the North Range ports in Europe has risen from 22 to 26 per cent," said the port marketing man Juergen Sorgenfrei.
Feeder links to the Baltic and eastern Europe outperformed other transport routes in 2007 with a growth rate of 21.2 per cent, port authorities said in a release.
Hamburg's container traffic with Russia amounted to 730,000 TEU, up 21.6 per cent over the previous year, making Russia Hamburg's third largest container trading partner.
Seaborne traffic between Hamburg and the Baltic Sea states generated a transhipment volume of 2.7 million TEU in 2007, up 11.7 per cent compared with 2006. Finland was Hamburg's fourth largest trading partner with 502,000 TEU, Sweden fifth with 390,000 TEU, and Poland seventh with 325,000 TEU. Singapore was ranked second with 749,000 TEU.
The volume of Hamburg's container traffic on the Asian sea routes rose by about 722,000 TEU from 2006 to 2007. This represents an increase of 14.9 per cent. East Asia and Southeast Asia each recorded double-digit growth rates in 2007, at 16.5 per cent (3.9 million TEU) and 12.2 per cent (1.0 million TEU), respectively.
In traffic with India alone, last year a volume of 150,000 TEU was handled in ocean-going trade via Hamburg, an increase of 48 per cent year-on-year. Last year, Hamburg's container terminals handled 3.2 million TEU in trade with China, up 23 per cent, making China Hamburg's top trading partner.