BERLIN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- For Germany's largest harbor, seaborne cargo handling in the first nine months of the year was "highly satisfactory", the port of Hamburg announced on Wednesday.
With seaborne cargo throughput up 3.2 percent at 104 million tons during the period, growth at Hamburg port "clearly exceeded the figures" from the major competitor ports in northern Europe, according to the port of Hamburg.
"The growth trend evident since the beginning of the year was maintained," it stated.
Container handling at the port was up by 6.9 percent to a total of 7 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). With a plus of 3 percent and 2 million TEUs, around 30 percent of all containers handled in Hamburg had been bound for China, a port spokesperson told Xinhua.
According to the port of Hamburg, one reason for the increase of container handling was four new transatlantic services since the beginning of the year, which connected Hamburg with ports in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
