China stays Port of Hamburg's most important trading partner

07 Mar '22

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Pic: Port of Hamburg

China is the most important trading partner of Germany's largest universal port Hamburg, according to the Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM), which recently said the decline in seaborne container throughput with China recorded in the first COVID-19 year of 2020 has been halted as an increase of 5.5 per cent year on year to 2.6 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) was logged in 2021.

With the new China Germany Express (CGX) service, the German international shipping and container transportation company Hapag-Lloyd will connect the port of Hamburg with the southern Chinese DaChan Bay Terminal, which belongs to the Port of Shenzhen, on a weekly basis from April, according to official Chinese media.

"This new container liner service will further expand the range of altogether 18 liner services linking Hamburg with Chinese ports and consolidate Hamburg's position as the leading China port," said Axel Mattern, HHM's chief executive officer.

More containers are also being transported via trains between China and Hamburg. Around 160,000 TEU were transported by rail between Hamburg and more than 25 destinations in China last year, an increase of 51 per cent, an HHM statement said.

Although the 12,000-kilometer journey between China and Hamburg takes around 20 days now for trains to complete, the land route via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is faster than by ship by sea, the port noted.

More than 290 train connections linking Hamburg with China are marketed by different providers.

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