By Rolf Zamponi 14th August 2010, 08:48 clock
The half year result is above the level of 2009. Hamburger Port and Logistics AG works from nearly nine percent more containers.
Hamburger harbor and Logistics AG manufactures from nearly nine percent more containers in Vergeich to the previous year.
Hamburger port and Logistics AG manufactures from nearly nine percent more containers in Vergeich to the previous year.
Hamburg. The Port of Hamburg has made the turn at the envelope. Once after the first quarter, the number of containers handled was still around four percent below the previous year, was exceeded by the end of June the previous year. Thus, according to information from the Evening Gazette in the first six months of the year more than 3.7 million standard containers (TEU loaded), after it had 3.6 million TEUs last year. Also the total throughput increased year on year from 54.2 million to more than 58 million tons. On Monday, the Port of Hamburg will provide marketing data for January to June. In the Rotterdam container throughput increased by 18 percent in the half year to 5.4 million in Bremerhaven by 11.9 percent to 2.4 million TEUs.
The increase in container handling goes to the Hamburger Hafen und Logistic's AG (HHLA back). It achieved a growth of 8.9 percent to 2.633 million TEUs - a significant growth after the end of March only through participation in Odessa a plus of 0.5 percent. "Now put the terminal in Hamburg," said spokesman Mark HHLA Krümpel.
Increasing growth is boosting the port business
Eurogate is true with 1.1 million TEUs in the first half still in the minus 3.8 percent. Spokeswoman Corinna Romke is certain: "Hamburg is catching up again." The Harbour Group Buss expects that 2010 will exceed the 105 000 TEU of 2009. "Global growth has now applies to international trade," Burkhard Lemper, director at the Bremen Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) - and get the forecast values. For example, the International Monetary Fund now expects a rise of 4.6 instead of 4.2 percent previously.
Overall, container traffic increased in the first half of the year by 17 percent. The engine of growth for China is Hamburg. Thus the increased turnover in the ports of the Middle Kingdom by 20 percent, says the semi-annual report of the HHLA. CEO Klaus-Dieter Peters expects, "despite a highly competitive market, with sales over last year".
So far he has succeeded. With € 505.1 million is Hamburg's largest port operations by 0.8 percent over the previous year. This year is now over one billion Euro (previous year 990.7 million) was achieved. The operating profit of 81.4 million is indeed still 0.2 percent below the previous year, but after taxes, HHLA has earned 44.9 million euros, 2.7 percent more for 2009. Peters is aiming for the full year, an increase of ten percent in the envelope. This could, experts believe, also create the entire harbor. After the seven million TEUs in 2009 seem to 7.7 or even eight million TEUs possible.
Especially as the HHLA assumes that moving now no feeder services for the Baltic Sea more redistribute the container from overseas. "If rising transportation costs, Hamburg to Rotterdam again benefited from its favorable location on Eastern Europe," said spokesman HHLA Krümpel.
New connections in the Baltic Sea in Hamburg
Thus, the French shipping company CMA / CGM has announced that traffic to get back from Zeebrugge to Hamburg. It is followed with Team Lines, now the largest feeder shipping company in Hamburg. Thus, from September to three services to Poland, Russia and Finland, Hamburg and Bremerhaven, will not go, but Rotterdam. "It is the largest cargo ship that can pass through the Kiel Canal," says Hans-Christian Mordhorst, commercial director at Team Lines. And the reasons for the new course, "The overseas owners wanted more starts in Hamburg."
