{"id":7246,"date":"2004-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2004\/01\/01\/hamburg-threat-to-rotterdam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:31:44","slug":"hamburg-threat-to-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/hamburg-threat-to-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg threat to Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The improvements to the Park are complemented by the delivery of four Kalmar empty-handlers Thamesport is now able to stack empty containers up to seven high, which would not have been possible on the old surface.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg&#8217;s economics senator Gunnar Uldall reported a 14.8% growth in containers handled &#8211; which would mean about 6.1m TEUs compared with the 5.3m TEUs handled in 2002 &#8211; itself a rise of 14.6%. Hamburg has been growing faster in the sector than Rotterdam for some years and officials said the German port, which has the capacity to handle up to 13-14 million TEUs a year, would catch up with the Dutch facility inside a few years if current growth continued.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg also set another record in 2003, passing a 100m tonne mark in general handling that narrowly eluded it last year. That&#8217;s still a long way behind Rotterdam&#8217;s 328m tonnes. Officials said Hamburg&#8217;s strategic focus on Baltic and Asian markets had been responsible for much of the increase in container and general business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg passed the six million TEU container barrier last year, prompting port sources to say that if strong, above-average growth continued in the premier German port, it could soon be knocking at Rotterdams door as far as box handling is concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}