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In the 2017 harbour terminal of the German group Eurogate they have enlivened 14,4 million container (- 1.4%)
In the fourth trimester an increase of +1.0% is recorded
February 1, 2018
Last year the harbour terminals that are under responsibility of the German group Eurogate have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 14,4 million teu, with a decrease of the -1,4% regarding 2016, contraction of the activity that has been produced essentially in the first half of 2017 with first and according to trimester closed ones respective with decreases of the -2,0% and of the -4,5% that totally are not compensated by the recovery of the traffic realized in the two next archived item trimesters with increases of +0.3% and of +1.0%.
In the 2017 single German harbour terminal of the group they have enlivened a total pairs to 7,8 million teu (- 5.5%), of which 5,5 million teu enlivened in the port of Bremerhaven (+0.9%), 1,7 million teu in the port of Amburgo (- 25.6%) and 554 thousand teu in the port of Wilhelmshaven (+15.1%). Eurogate has explained that the important recorded decrease to Amburgo is effect of the impact on the activity produced from the reorganization of the alliances between the navigation companies that have involved the loss of customers and of the impact of the failure of the Hanjin Shipping South Korean who was one of the historical customers of the German group.
According to the consuntivo anniversary introduced from Eurogate, last year in the Italian harbour terminals, than the group it manages through the participation of 33.4% in the Contship Italy(on 23 January 2018), they are enlivened more than 4,6 million teu, with a decrease of the -7,5% on 2016.
Last year in the other terminals of the group the traffic has been almost 2,0 million teu, with an increase of +46.4% that is effect mainly of the new activity in the Cypriot port of Limassol, whose container terminal is managed by the second half of 2016 from a consortium participated to 60% from Eurogate(on 26 April 2016), where they are enlivened 345 thousand teu, let alone from the increments of +35.9% and +22.9% of the traffic enlivened from the terminals in the portuguese port of Lisbon (195 thousand teu) and in that Moroccan of Tanger Med (1,4 million teu), while the traffic in the Russian port of Ust-Luga is diminished of the -9,8% coming down to 74 thousand teu.
Last year the operated intermodal traffic from the German group is increased altogether of +5.2% 1,0 million teu, of which 658 thousand teu enlivened in Germany (+2.0%), 301 thousand teu in Italy (+10.9%) and 59 thousand teu in Portugal and Brazil (+14.5%).
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