News / Anxious Hamburg lags further behind rival ports as it waits for a deeper Elbe

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The port of Hamburg is continuing to lose ground to its North European container competitors, with another year-on-year decline in first-half results.

Throughput for the German port fell 2.7% on 2017 and, despite the port’s best efforts to shrug off the drop, it finds itself lagging behind Antwerp and Rotterdam.

However, joint chief executive of marketing Axel Mattern pointed to Hamburg’s position as “Europe’s leading rail port” as a positive.

“Our share of loaded containers remained stable in a competitive field, and our [place] as ...