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Every Vessel Hunter story on Throughput: 8 stories, from 11 August 2026 to 12 September 2026. Newest: "Port of Tauranga Wins Fast-Track Nod for Stella Passage". Each story links to the ships and ports it names, so a name in the text opens the record behind it.

Container terminal with ship-to-shore cranes at sunset
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Port of Tauranga Wins Fast-Track Nod for Stella Passage

Port of Tauranga's Stella Passage development has been approved under New Zealand's Fast-track Approvals Act, subject to conditions and remaining appeal rights.

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Container ships loading at quays in the port of Rotterdam
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Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges still dwarf every other EU port on tonnage

Rotterdam handled 397.3 million tonnes in 2024 and Antwerp-Bruges 243.7 million, with third-placed Hamburg on 97 million as the gap collapses below the top two.

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Container ship loading at a terminal, illustrating global terminal operations
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COSCO Shipping Ports Handles 80.16m TEU as Overseas Volume Rises 18%

COSCO Shipping Ports reported first-half throughput of 80.16m TEU, up 7.9%, with EBITDA climbing 20.6% to $536m and an interim dividend of 2.360 US cents per share.

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Aerial view of yantian container terminal china
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Ningbo-Zhoushan Overtakes Singapore as Second Busiest Box Port

Ningbo-Zhoushan has edged past Singapore to become the world's second busiest container port, growing at nearly twice the Singaporean rate in the first half.

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Terminal modernisation and lower petroleum imports weigh on a 56.1m tonne result
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Port of Hamburg Throughput Falls 3.1 Percent in First Half of 2026

Hamburg handled 56.1 million tonnes in the first half of 2026, down 3.1 percent, with container volumes of 4.0 million TEU and a marked 13.5 percent fall in cargo handling with the United States.

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Container terminal cranes at the Port of Hamburg at dusk
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Hamburg Container Throughput Falls In A Difficult First Half

The Port of Hamburg handled 56.1 million tonnes in the first half of 2026, down 3.1 percent, with container volumes falling 3.8 percent during terminal modernisation work.

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Orange ship-to-shore gantry crane at a container terminal
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Bahrain Terminal Operator's First-Half Profit Falls Seventy-Two Percent

APM Terminals Bahrain reported a seventy-two percent fall in first-half net profit, with second-quarter earnings down more than ninety percent.

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Aerial view of a container ship under way in coastal water
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Shanghai Sets Single-Day Container Record Of 203,881 Boxes

The port of Shanghai handled 203,881 containers in a single day on 1 August, beating its previous record by close to nine percent as it cleared a typhoon backlog.

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