Steep growth in Hamburg’s container throughput for Poland

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Following a slight downturn in 2010, volumes in container handling between the Port of Hamburg and Poland recovered notably in 2011, the port authority has reported.

Feedership container traffic with Poland grew by 33.3 percent to 238,000TEU and with Eastern Europe as a whole by 38.7 percent to 1.07 million TEU. Feeder connections between Hamburg and the Polish ports were further expanded during 2011. Altogether five new feeder services commenced operation between Hamburg and Baltic ports in 2011.  

The Polish ports of Gdansk, Gdynia, Swinoujscie and Szczecin are served from Hamburg by eleven feeder services with a total of 20 sailings per week. In addition, Hamburg with its rail connections and autobahn network fulfils an essential hub function for traffic with its East Europe hinterland. Provisional estimates from Port of Hamburg Marketing indicated that between Hamburg and Poland a comparable transport volume to 2010 of approximately 240,000 TEU was reached on truck and rail container traffic.

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