In the first three months of 2012 the Port of Hamburg achieved total throughput of 32.6 million tons (+ 3.8 percent). At 2.2 million TEU (20-ft standard containers), throughput on the container handling that predominates in Hamburg as a universal port was 5.2 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2011.

During her maiden voyage the HANJIN SOOHO, the Korean shipping company HANJIN’s largest containership to date, berthed in the Port of Hamburg on 4 May 2012. With a slot capacity of 13,100 TEU (20-ft standard containers), this mega-containership was handled at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH).

Maersk Line, the world’s largest liner shipping company, has added the Port of Hamburg to the port rotation of its Maersk AE-6 Service. The MATHILDE MAERSK berthed at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH) as the first vessel on this liner service to call in Hamburg on 24 March 2012.

This year Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM) will be showcasing Hamburg‘s potential to around 45,000 trade visitors from industry, commerce and the logistics sector in South America by participating again in Intermodal South America in São Paulo. The fair is being held from 10th to 12th April 2012.

Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam satisfied with the European Parliament Environment Committee voting results. The Ports of Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam are satisfied with the European Parliament resolution to transpose international legislation regarding sulphur content in marine fuels into European legislation.

Following a slight downturn in 2010, volumes in container handling between the Port of Hamburg and Poland recovered notably in 2011. Feedership container traffic with Poland, for instance, grew by 33.3 percent to 238,000 TEU (20-feet standard containers) and with Eastern Europe as a whole by 38.7 percent to 1,07 million TEU.

Európa második legnagyobb konténer kikötője növekedésre számít 2012-ben. 2011-ben Németország legnagyobb univerzális kikötője összes 132.2 millió tonnás tengeri áruszállítási volument ért el, ami 9,1%-os növekedést jelent. 2011-ben a konténer volumen összes 90 millió húszlábas konténer (TEU) mennyiségű volt, ami 2010-hez képest 1,12 millióval több TEU-t jelent.

In 2011 Germany’s largest universal port achieved a seaborne cargo throughput totalling 132.2 million tons that represents an increase of 9.1 percent. Container throughput in 2011 totalled 9 million 20-feet standard containers (TEU), or 1.12 million TEU more than in 2010.

The global fleet of containerships may increase 8.3 per cent in 2012, the most in two years, prolonging an oversupply of vessels on all major trade lanes that could undermine efforts to raise rates, said Alphaliner.

Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM) is to open its own Port Representative Office in Hong Kong in January 2012. HHM’s existing cooperation with the German Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong will therefore cease at the end of 2011.

Year by year, the number of exceptionally large ships (known as AGFs in German) calling in the Port of Hamburg is growing and with it, the size of such ships.

Official opening of Hamburg Representative Office in Mumbai and inauguration of new, direct liner services. Within the EU the Port of Hamburg is one of India’s most important commercial partners in seaborne foreign trade.

Century Logistics Holdings Bhd (Century Logistics) has registered financial results within expectations, but will need to restructure its earnings drivers on the back of slowing demand for oil and gas (O&G) logistics services.

Direct Rail Services (DRS) has launched a revolutionary new service from PD Ports’ Teesport container terminal utilising a unique wagon that can transport high-cube boxes to areas of the UK previously inaccessible by rail.

The UK’s logistics industry has welcomed the opening of a new deepwater terminal at the country’s busiest container terminal, which is capable of handling the latest generation of container vessels.

Overnight from 25 to 26 September 2011, the GRANDE SIERRA LEONE docked at the Unikai terminal at the Port of Hamburg for the first time. It is the first sailing of the newbuild in the West Africa service operated by Grimaldi Lines.

Panalpina, one of the world’s leading providers of supply chain solutions, today announced the launch of three new direct Less than Container Load (LCL) services through its in-house carrier Pantainer Express Line.

In the first half of 2011, seaborne container traffic between Hamburg and Poland ex-perienced a particular surge by 38 per cent, to 114,000 TEU.

The Finnish Ambassador for the UK on Wednesday visited PD Ports owned Teesport, to see the facility’s latest cranes, purchased from a Finnish manufacturer.

The four new RTG (rubber-tyred gantry) cranes delivered to Teesport today are a key component of the current £16.7million expansion of the container terminals at Teesport and represent the biggest single equipment investment in the port since the container terminal opened in 2003.

Germany’s largest universal port profited from a strengthened world economy and achieved a strong advance with seaborne cargo throughput up by 9.4 percent. During the first half of the year the Port of Hamburg handled seaborne cargoes totalling 64.1 million tons.

Positive EBIT in adverse market environment. Intense competition putting pressure on rates. Cost increases due to high oil price. Weak dollar depressing result.

China Rongsheng Heavy Industries (RSHI) has announced that it has recently secured orders for 2+2 6600TEU containerships from a major European shipowner.

In 2010, the port of Liège handled 21.2 million tonnes of cargo, 15% more than in 2009. This brought Liège close to the level of 2008, 21.8 million tonnes, and gave it a strong third place again as European inland port after Duisburg and Paris.

The Port of Hartlepool today hosted a visit by Charles Hendry, Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and used the opportunity to call for more clarity in the Government’s renewable energy policy.

On 7 June 2011 the UMM SALAL, the biggest containership to date belonging to United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), tied up in the Port of Hamburg on her maiden voyage.