News / Hamburg overtaken by Antwerp and relegated to third place in European box port rankings

11/02/2016

The port of Hamburg saw the number of containers processed at its terminals in 2015 decline by 9.3%, demoting it to third-place in theNorth European container port rankings, behind Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Hamburg handled 8.8m teu last year compared with Rotterdam’s 12.2m teu and Antwerp’s 9.6m teu.

Axel Mattern, from Hamburg’s ...

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