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The Baltics were the fastest growing destination for containers moving through Hamburg.Hamburg’s container traffic shrank 0.7 percent in the first quarter on lower Asian shipments, widening the gap between the German port and its top rivals Rotterdam and Antwerp, which recorded growth in the quarter.Europe’s third-largest container hub handled 2.2 million TEU in the first three months of the year as loaded containers stalled at 1.9 million TEU while empty boxes declined 4.9 percent to 307,000 TEU.In sharp contrast, Rotterdam boosted traffic by 8.8 percent, its biggest ever quarterly increase, to 3.3 million TEU as surging transhipment traffic consolidated its position as Europe’s top container port.Second-ranked Antwerp’s traffic rose just 0.7 percent to 2.48 million TEU, ending a long run of market-beating increases that pushed it above 10 million TEU for the first time in 2016.Hamburg’s key Asian traffic was 3 percent lower at 1.2 million TEU, with trade with China, the port’s most impor... (JOC.com)
