News / Hamburg sees market share drift to rivals as draught restrictions begin to bite

The arrival of more 20,000 teu-plus megaships has resulted in “a steady shift of market share” from Germany’s hub gateway container port of Hamburg to western neighbours Rotterdam and Antwerp, and, to a limited extent, Wilhelmshaven.

The latest Global Port Tracker for North Europe is projecting a 5.1% decline in container imports for Hamburg in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period of 2018.

Hamburg is yet to publish its final throughput figures for 2018, but at the ...