EURO Gate’s container volumes rose by 4.2 per cent year on year to a record 14.8 million TEU in 2014, making it Germany's largest terminal operator.
A report by St Petersburg Port News said that within this total 8.1 million TEU were handled at the group's German terminals in Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven, up 3.5 per cent over the previous year.
This comes as the world's largest box ships, the 19,100-TEU CSCL Globe, called at the Hamburg container terminal, while the 19,224-TEU MSC Oscar is expected to visit the box terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
Eurogate chairman Emanuel Schiffer said the arrival of such enormous containerships "presents considerable challenges for the infrastructure of the seaports as well as the superstructure of the container terminal operators," however, the port said it is ready to handle them.
In a related development, the new 2M shipping alliance will route two scheduled services on the Far East-Europe trade lane and four feeder services via Wilhelmshaven.
Moreover, Maersk Line is introducing a third main ship scheduled service from March on the Middle East-India route augmenting rising demand among carriers to call at the port.
Throughput at the Ust-Luga Container Terminal was also described as being highly encouraging, registering an on-year increase of 68.1 per cent to 103,521 TEU despite the crisis in Russia over the annexation of Ukraine from Europe.
WORLD SHIPPING
20 February 2015 - 10:12
Euro gate's box volume rises to record levels in 2014
EURO Gate’s container volumes rose by 4.2 per cent year on year to a record 14.8 million TEU in 2014, making it Germany's largest terminal operator.
WORLD SHIPPING
20 February 2015 - 10:12
Euro gate’s box volume rises to record levels in 2014
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