News / Duisport races to add more box capacity despite sluggish port growth on the coast

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The world’s largest inland container port, Duisport, is preparing for new growth by expanding its annual handling capacity by a million teu.

Despite flatlining volumes last year at its two main source ports, Rotterdam and Antwerp, the German hinterland port saw its container throughput grow to 3m teu, up 16% on the number of boxes handled in 2012.

Duisburger Hafen chief executive Erich Staake said: “This impressive growth shows that one can generate growth with integrated transport and logistics concepts, even when ...