News / Hamburg bucks Euro hub trend of falling volumes, but faces 'many challenges'

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Despite the war in Ukraine and industrial action at its container terminals in June, the port of Hamburg bucked the trend of North European hubs by growing its volumes over the first half of the year.

Throughput edged up year on year by 0.9%, to 4.4m teu, which compares with the 4.4% fall at Antwerp-Bruges, to 6.8m teu, and 6.2% drop at Rotterdam, to 7.3m teu.

A year-on-year 5.8% increase in Chinese imports and exports, to 1.3m teu, and a 3.9% rise ...