News / Elbe solutions now urgent as the cost mounts up for port of Hamburg

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The port of Hamburg may have prevented further declines in the first half of 2017, but the delays surrounding the expansion of the Elbe Fairway continue to cost the German gateway.

Container volumes for the period were flat on last year’s at 4.45m teu, and while some saw this as a welcome respite after two years of decline, the port continued to lose ground.

Both Rotterdam and Antwerp – the latter has superseded Hamburg as Europe’s second-busiest container port – saw volumes grow by 9.4%, ...