Traffic with ports in China—3.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)—accounted for just over a fifth (20.7 per cent) of container throughput in German sea ports in 2021, according to Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The container throughput in German sea ports totalled 14.8 million TEUs in 2021, which was 5.9 per cent more than in 2020.But the figure was 1.5 per cent less than in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 crisis started.
Shanghai alone accounted for a throughput of 968,000 TEUs. Shanghai’s most important German partner port was Hamburg with 449,000 TEUs received and 315,000 TEUs shipped.
Traffic with ports in China—3.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)—accounted for just over a fifth (20.7 per cent) of container throughput in German sea ports in 2021, according to Germany's Federal Statistical Office. The container throughput in German sea ports totalled 14.8 million TEUs in 2021, which was 5.9 per cent more than in 2022.#
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