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In the first three months of 2012 the Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 32.6 million tones, up 3.8 percent. At 2.2 million TEUs, throughput on the container handling was 5.2 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2011.
Compared to the main ports further West, Hamburg thus gained additional market share and strengthened its position as the Northern European hub for container traffic; Rotterdam’s throughput was down by 3.9 percent while Antwerp’s increase was comparatively minimal at 0.7 percent.
By comparison with the first quarter of 2011, general cargo throughput at the Port of Hamburg achieved a 7.9 percent advance to 23.1 million tonnes. Growth here was primarily powered by the strong trend in exports of containerised general cargoes.
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