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In according to trimester of this year traffic of the goods in the port of Amburgo it has grown of +0.7%
Stable the containerized cargos. Increase of the liquid bulk and decrease of those sand banks
August 16, 2016
The port of Amburgo, graces to an light rise of the traffic in according to trimester of this year, has contained to the -0,9% bending of the volumes enlivened in the entire the first half of 2016. The increase of +0.7% recorded in the period April-june, in which tons of goods are enlivened altogether 35,4 million, is determined by the increment of +5% of the goods in import that tons have totaled 20,2 million, while those in export are diminished of the -4% and are come down to 15,3 million tons.
The total of the goods several enlivened in according to trimester of 2016 has turned out stable being piled to 23,6 million tons (0%), of which 23,2 million containerized tons of goods (0%) pairs to 2,2 million teu (+1%) and 400 thousand totaled with a handling of containers conventional tons of goods (- 10%).
In according to trimester of this year bulk they have been attested to a total of 11,8 million tons (- 1%), of which 3,5 million tons of liquid bulk (+9%) and 8,4 million tons of bulk sand banks (- 2%) constituted by 2,5 million tons of agricultural bulk (- 4%) and 5,9 million tons of bulk enlivened with bucket (- 2%).
In the first six months of the 2016 traffic total of the goods it has turned out pairs to 70,2 million tons regarding 70,8 million tons in the first half last year. The goods to the disembarkation is increased of +3.5% 29,9 million to tons, while those to the boarding are diminished of -6,3% to the 40,3 million one tons.
The total volume of the goods several in the first semester of this year is dropped of -0,6% to the 46,9 million one tons, of which 46,1 million tons of goods in container (- 0.5%) realized with a handling of containers pairs to beyond 4,4 million teu (- 1.2%) and 820 thousand conventional tons of goods (- 6.9%). If the containerized trade with China has marked a reduction of the -1,0% being is pairs almost 1,3 million teu, the traffic with Russia has marked an increment of +2.3% to 216 thousand teu and in increase they have turned out also the containerized traffics with the USA (180 thousand teu, +7.3%), with India (128 thousand teu, +9.9%) and with the United Kingdom (120 thousand teu, +13.1%). The Harbour Authority of Amburgo has specified that the contraction of the -1,2% of the total traffic of the container is attributable mainly to the reduction of coming and directed transfers of container to the ports of Poland and the Sweden that are served by a greater number of directed marine lines. Altogether in the first semester the bending of handling of container with Scandinavia has been pairs to the -5,6%, while the traffics with Poland and the Baltic Sea States are dropped of -5,7%.
Also the bulk has closed the first six months of 2016 having recorded a bending being is pairs to 23,3 million tons (- 1.4%), of which 7,2 million tons of liquid bulk (+6.5%), 4,8 million tons of agricultural bulk (- 10.2%) and 11,3 million tons of cargos enlivened with bucket (- 1.8%)
"The marine traffic of the goods enlivened in the port of Amburgo in the first half of the year - the managing director of the Port of Hamburg has commented Marketing, Axel Mattern - has turned out in light decrease, but the trend has been remarkablly stabler. With an increase of 1.9% regarding the three months precedence, according to trimester of 2016 an obvious tendency to the rise has already shown. This positive trend is confirmed also by confronts between according to trimester of 2016 and the 2015 that reveals an increase of 0.7%".
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