Germany's Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) saidthroughput was 3.5m teu to 30 June.
The group’s revenue fell 5% to EUR 566.3m ($695m) following changes in accounting consolidationmethods.
But the operating result rose by 1.2 % to EUR 94.2m and the net profit wasup 21% to EUR 42m.
“In an increasingly gloomy globaleconomic environment, we increased throughput volumes at our containerterminals in the first half of 2012 and strengthened our competitive positionin Northern Europe,” said chairman Klaus-Dieter Peters.
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