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The port of Amburgo has closed 2018 with an light decrease of the -1,0% of the traffic thanks to the rise of +6.5% in the last trimester
This year THE Alliance will carry ulterior 500 thousand container in the German harbour port of call
February 18, 2019
Last year the port of Amburgo has enlivened 135,1 million tons of goods, with a contained bending of the -1,0% on 2017 determined from the recovery happened in the last trimester of the year when - with 34,3 million tons - an increase of +6.5% on the fourth trimester of the 2017 that the marked decrease of the -7,6% in the first trimester of 2018 has almost entirely compensated and that of the -2,3% in the quarter next one is recorded to which a volume of stable traffic in the third trimester is followed.
In entire the 2018 traffic of import it is piled to 79,7 million tons (+1.7%), of which 38,5 million in first semester (- 3.0% on first semester 2017) and 41,2 million tons in second half of the year (+6.5% on the second half of 2017), and the traffic of export to 55,4 million tons, of which 28,0 million tons in the first semester (- 7.6%) and 27,4 million tons in second half of the year (- 1.1%).
In the year the 2018 single traffic of the goods several is piled to 90,9 million tons (- 0.9% on 2017), of which 89,4 million tons of goods in container (- 1.0%) totaled with a handling of containers pairs to 8,7 million teu (- 1.0%), included 7,6 million container full (0%) and 4,6 million empty (- 0.6%), and 1,5 million conventional tons of goods (+5.8%). In the segment of the bulk the traffic has been pairs to 44,2 million tons (- 1.2%). In the field of the cruises 2018 are closed with 901 thousand fleeting (+10.8%).
The Harbour Authority of Amburgo previews that in the 2019 containerized trade it will grow mainly thanks to the contribution, estimated in total 500 thousand teu, of the traffic generated from the four services of line that give to the beginning of this year shipowning consortium THE Alliance, constituted from companies Hapag-Lloyd, ONE and Yang Ming, has transferred from the port of Bremerhaven to that of Amburgo(on 23 October 2018).
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