Eurogate terminals top 10 million TEUs in 2003

Eurogate terminals top 10 million TEUs in 2003    The nine container terminals of the Eurogate port group, based in Bremen, handled 10.7 million TEUs in 2003, an increase of 12.5 percent over the 9.5-million-TEU traffic moved in 2002.
   Eurogate, which operates container terminals in Germany, Italy and Portugal, said that its highest growth rate last year was in the port of Hamburg. Hamburg terminals increased their throughput by 18.5 percent, to 2 million TEUs.
   The operator’s terminals in Bremerhaven handled 3.2 million TEUs in 2003, 6.2 percent more than in 2002.
   For the first time, Eurogate’s figures include the Cagliari terminal in Sardinia, Italy, which is operating alongside Gioia Tauro as the group’s second Mediterranean transshipment hub. Cagliari handled 292,841 TEUs last year, while Gioia Tauro in southern Italy saw its volume rise 6.3 percent last year, to 3.1 million TEUs. The container terminal in La Spezia, northern Italy, lifted its throughput by 8.8 percent, to 914,142 TEUs.
   Eurogate’s terminal in Lisbon, Portugal, increased its volume 16.3 percent last year, to 279,017 TEUs.