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In the first trimester of this year the traffic of the goods in the port of Amburgo has grown of +6.0%
The container pairs to 2,3 million teu (+6.4% have been)
May 20, 2019
In the first trimester of the 2019 traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Amburgo it is piled to 34,6 million tons, with an increase of +6.0% regarding the first three months of the 2018 (period in which era recorded a decrease of the -7,5% on the correspondent trimester of 2017). The increase is generated is from the rise of the several volumes of goods, than they have been attested 23,9 million to tons (+5.4%), is of the traffic of the bulk, that it has totaled 10,7 million tons (+7.5%).
In the single field of the container the traffic has been pairs to 2,3 million teu, with a progression of +6.4% on the first trimester last year that terminal HHLA Containerterminal Altenwerder of four services is produced by the transfer to the container removed ocean-going liners to the container mainly Eurogate terminal Container Bremerhaven Terminal of the port of Bremerhaven, diversion of the ports of call that has involved a decrease of the containerized trade in this last harbour port of call(of the 15 and 17 May 2019). The Harbour Authority of Amburgo has specified that this transfer has produced for example the quadruplication of the traffic with the United States that has been pairs to 121 thousand teu, placing the USA which according to commercial partner of the port of Amburgo relatively to the segment of the container.
"The four new services ocean-going liners of THE Alliance and the return of a greater volume of bulk traffic - it has emphasized Axel Mattern, director marketing of the harbour authority - are carrying the port on an increase distance. Amburgo has become hub for the traffics with the United States, Mexico and Canada, with a marine traffic of about 5,5 million tons that are unloaded and loaded every year in the port with Amburgo and that besides the goods several it includes also bulk".
The Harbour Authority has evidenced also the success obtained in the first three months of this year from the port of Amburgo which hub of distribution of the container towards other European harbour ports of call, with a traffic enlivened from portacontainer feeder that in the period it has turned out pairs to 865 thousand teu (+3.8%).
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