2015-10-09bloomberg.com

German exports slumped 5.2 percent in August from the previous month, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said on Thursday. That's the most since the recession of 2009. Imports slid 3.1 percent, shrinking the trade surplus to 15.3 billion euros from 25 billion euros.

Weakening trade with China and Russia prompted Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, which handles about three in four containers at the city port, to cut its 2015 earnings forecast on declining container volume. Germany's gateway to Asia serves as a major transfer hub for containers carried by deep-sea ships from the Pacific region and then reloaded onto smaller feeder vessels destined for Baltic Sea ports, including the Russian harbor of St. Petersburg.



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