Last year the harbour terminals of Eurogate have enlivened 13,3 million container (- 0.1%)



Last year the harbour terminals that are under responsibility of the German group Eurogate have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs altogether almost 13,3 million teu, with a bending of 0.1% regarding 2011. The data of 2012 for the first time includes the traffic enlivened in the new German terminal of Wilhelmshaven, that it is operating from last September and that within the end of 2012 has enlivened 26 thousand teu, and the traffic in the terminal of the Russian port of Ust-Luga, assets from the end of 2011, where in the 2012 they are enlivened 11 thousand teu.

Last year the terminals of the group in the single German ports have enlivened beyond altogether 7,9 million container teu, with a decrease of 0.3% on the year precedence. The traffic in the port of Bremerhaven has totaled 6,1 million teu (+3.3%) and the terminal of Eurogate in the port of Amburgo has enlivened 1,8 million teu (- 12.0%). If the impact of the crisis of the shipowning carriers less is emphasized to Bremerhaven - it has explained the Eurogate group - the restructure measures and of rationalization of the schedule of the line services they have influenced in meaningful way the development of the volumes to the Eurogate Container Hamburg Terminal.

In the 2012 harbour terminal of the group in Italy, that Contship Italy between Eurogate (33.4%) and the compatriot Eurokai (66.6% are managed by joint venture), have totaled a traffic of beyond 4,5 million teu (+7.3%) ( on 10 January 2013).

In the new port of Tanger Med the traffic quickly has a strong contraction coming down of 34.7% to 551 thousand teu regarding 844 thousand teu in 2011. In the Moroccan port Eurogate it is present through joint venture TangerMedGate Management participated with 40% from Eurogate, 40% from Contship Italy and 20% from the Comanav Moroccan, than in its turn it stops 50% of Eurogate Tanger, the society that manages the homonymous container terminal that is participated also by the shipowning groups MSC (20%) and CMA CGM (20%) and by same Comanav (10%).

In Portugal, where Eurogate work in the port of Lisbon the container terminal of Alcântara Sul through joint venture Liscont Operadora de Contentores of which the remaining quota stops 16.34% of the capital (is in the hands of the portuguese group Mota-Engil), the traffic has been pairs to 226 thousand teu, down of 7.5% regarding 244 thousand teu in 2011.

In occasion of the today's spread of these data of traffic, the president of the group Eurogate, Thomas Eckelmann, has found that "the economic scene remains difficult. The market of the container - it has specified - is characterized by many uncertainties. The increase of the determined costs from the prices of the naphta and the electricity, the excess of ability caused from the delivery of new ships and the stagnation of the volumes of traffic goods deriving from the crisis of the debit gives little reasons to hope that 2013 will carry a long-lasting improvement".