Cosco Rotterdam volume doubles, while Hamburg cargo plummets

COSCO has doubled its throughput in Rotterdam this year, discharging 80 per cent of its total in the Dutch port while its volume through Hamburg fell to 20 per cent, reported the Berlin daily Die Welt.

Cosco president Wei Jiafu told a recent Chinese-German economic conference in Xian that the River Elbe through which ships go to Hamburg must be dredged to accommodate larger ships now entering service, according to the report that was translated and published in the Port of Rotterdam official newsletter.
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