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Pre-Corona impact hits Hamburg
Blank sailings to and from China left their mark.
In the port of Hamburg, seaborne cargo throughput in the first quarter of the year amounted to 31.9 million t, 7.9% down on 2019. At 2.2 million teu, container handling was less affected, but still recorded a 6.6% decline.
At 579,000 teu, the total number of containers Hamburg handled in Q1/2020 for China, its most important trading partner, was 14.6% lower.
Yet, holding second place in the ranking of Hamburg’s container partners, USA accounted for 146,000 teu in Q1/2020 and still generated a 20.7% growth. In third place with 111,000 teu, Singapore also achieved an improvement in the first three months of the year.
By contrast, the transhipment sector, or container throughput between ocean-going and feeder vessels, was especially affected by the corona crisis with a decline of 10.8% to 772,000 teu. (mw)