In the first light trimester increase (+0.6%) of the containerized trade enlivened from the harbour terminals of the Eurokai



In the first three months of this year the harbour terminals that are under responsibility of the German group Eurokai have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 3,48 million teu, with an light increment of +0.6% on the same period of 2018. The contained increase is generated by the increase of the enlivened volumes of traffic in the German ports and those of Cyprus, Morocco, Portugal and Russia that have compensated the emphasized bending recorded in Italy that is produced by the important contraction of the traffic in the terminals of the ports of Gioia Tauro and Cagliari.

Altogether in the terminals of the German ports they are enlivened 1,99 million teu, with a rise of +5.1% on the first trimester last year, of which 1,25 million teu enlivened in the port of Bremerhaven (- 7.8%), 542 thousand teu in the port of Amburgo (+41.0%) and 205 thousand teu in the port of Wilhelmshaven (+28.6%). The recorded decrease to Bremerhaven is determined by the transfer at the beginning of this year of four services ocean-going liners operated from the company of German navigation Hapag-Lloyd from the Eurogate terminal Container Bremerhaven Terminal to terminal HHLA Containerterminal Altenwerder. The increment to Amburgo is produced by the arrival to January 2019 of the portacontainer of service FAL operated from the French company CMA CGM in the within of the Ocean Alliance, of the arrival in the course of 2018 of the ships of the service with the Far East operated from the South Korean company Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and from the increase of the volumes enlivened in port from the German company Hamburg Süd.

In Italy the traffic managed from the terminals operated from the Contship Italy, that it is participated to 66.6% from the Eurokai and 33.4% from the Eurogate German (in its turn participated to 50% from the Eurokai), has been pairs to a total of 970 thousand teu, with a decrease of the -10,0% on the first three months of 2018. The Medcenter branch Container Terminal (MCT), that it manages the entire containerized trade of the port of Gioia Tauro, has enlivened 476 thousand teu, with a reduction of -16,7%. We remember that last month MSC has become of entire property of the Terminal Investment Limited of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that has found 50% of the capital of the society stopped from the Contship Italy(on 18 April 2019). In the port of Cagliari the branch Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) has enlivened 30 thousand teu, with an important decrease of the -48,6% on the first trimester last year. In light bending also the traffic enlivened in the port of Ravenna from the Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) that it is piled to 43 thousand teu (- 0.9%). In increase, instead, the traffic enlivened in the port of from La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) and in the port of Salerno from Salerno Container Terminal (SCT), volumes that have attested respective to 328 thousand teu (+2.5%) and 93 thousand teu (+10.1%).

In the other terminals foreign countries that are under responsibility of the Eurokai group the traffic it has been pairs totally to 517 thousand teu (+6.6%), of which 378 thousand enlivened in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med (+12.6%), 93 thousand teu in the Cypriot port of Limassol (+5.5%), 30 thousand teu in the portuguese port of Lisbon (- 22.2%) and 15 thousand teu in the Russian port of Ust-Luga (- 30.8%).