China is the most important trading partner of Germany's largest universal port Hamburg, according to the Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM), which recently said the decline in seaborne container throughput with China recorded in the first COVID-19 year of 2020 has been halted as an increase of 5.5 per cent year on year to 2.6 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) was logged in 2021.
With the new China Germany Express (CGX) service, the German international shipping and container transportation company Hapag-Lloyd will connect the port of Hamburg with the southern Chinese DaChan Bay Terminal, which belongs to the Port of Shenzhen, on a weekly basis from April, according to official Chinese media.
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