Feature: Port of Hamburg witnesses prosperity of Sino-German trade

Staff unload containers from the freight train X8044 after the train from Hamburg of Germany arrived at Wujiashan railway container center station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Aug. 26, 2018. The trading partnership between China and German city of Hamburg can be traced back to the 18th century. After years of development, the Port of Hamburg is now one of the most important European hubs for trade with China. In 2018, the Port of Hamburg had a total seafreight volume of approximate 8.7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), of which some 2.6 million are related to China, according to the statistics released by the port. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)