Rotterdam narrows gap with Hamburg on Russian trade

THE Port of Rotterdam, having handled more than 40 per cent more containers than Hamburg in direct trade with Russia last year at 405,000 TEU, has now closed the gap between itself and its big rival.


Since 2007, Rotterdam's trade with Russia spiked in 2008 and caught up from its 40 to 50 per cent gap with Hamburg despite predicted growth in autumn along the deepened River Elb into the German port.


Direct Hamburg-Russia container transport from January to August 2010 amounted to 263,000 TEU, a 20.2 per cent increased compared against 2009, according to figures from the Dutch national bureau of statistics CBS.


A considerable number of containers from/to both Hamburg and Rotterdam were transhipped through Finnish ports, especially Kotka and Hamina and trucked into Russia.
(Source:http://www.schednet.com)