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In the 2012 harbour taxes to Amburgo they will grow of 3.5%
They will only pay the portacontainer of ability until about 11.000 teu
December 19, 2011
The Harbour Authority of Amburgo has announced that, in spite of the remarkable increase of the number of portacontainer of great dimensions, in the within of the distance of stabilization of the harbour taxes decided from the agency it has established not to vary the limit of application of the taxes so that to pay them they continue to being the ships portacontenitori of tonnage until 110.000 tons, volume that approximately corresponds to full hand container of the ability to 11.000 teu. The objective of such decision is to maintain the attraction of the port regarding the ships of greater ability.
Moreover Hamburg Port Authority has announced that from next 1° January the harbour taxes will endure an increase of 3.5% such to exclusively recover the increase of the costs recorded in last the three years, period in which the taxes have been frozen and some taxes in the 2010 are diminished until 10%, an increment - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority – however inferior to the rate of inflation from 2009.
"From the 2010 - it has observed in charge of the field financial of Port Authority, Tino Klemm - Amburgo it has recovered market shares. With our politics of the prices we remain beneath of the medium rate of inflation of the last years. Our objective is to do so as that the resumption of last the two years continues".
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