News / Hamburg denies it will lose volumes in shipping alliance network shifts

The German container gateway of Hamburg won’t see a drop in throughput after the shipping alliance network reshuffles scheduled for 1 April, it was claimed today.

While the recently published east-west schedule for the Ocean Alliance was largely unchanged, a Hamburg call on its Asia-North Europe NEU5/FAL3 service will be swtched to Antwerp, raising fears that the German hub could lose up to 150,000 teu per year.

However, Axel Mattern, joint chief executive of Port of Hamburg Marketing, claimed those volumes would ...