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The Authority for Economic Affairs, Transport and Innovation (BWVI) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) welcome the upgrade of the rail line between Stendal and Uelzen. At the turn of the year, Deutsche Bahn and the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs signed the relevant agreement. The two parties intend to invest a total of around 57 million euros in the rail line. Upgrading the route to a double track line sets an important signal for the Port of Hamburg.

Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH, a company of the SCHRAMM group, also continued its successful development in 2011. Thanks to its broad positioning as a universal port group with its mainstays of general cargo, bulk and liquid cargo in the three ports in Brunsbüttel, it was possible to boost the transhipment volume to over 10 million tons for the first time. The transhipment of liquid goods in the NOK ports of Ostermoor and Ölhafen (oil port) increased substantially compared with the previous years.

China

In 2011, the Chinese foreign trade surplus saw a decline to approx. 150 billion US dollars. Lars Anke, Port of Hamburg Marketing Representative from Shanghai, be-lieves that the adjustment of import and export flows in maritime trade will continue in 2012 owing to exchange-rate developments and restructuring processes within the Chinese industry. This will also have an influence on the composition of merchandise flows.

No increase in charges in 2011 / introduction of a volume-based fee in the summer

Year by year, the number of exceptionally large ships (known as AGFs in German) calling in the Port of Hamburg is growing and with it, the size of such ships. With the call by the “CSCL Mars”, visiting Hamburg this week for the first time on her maiden voyage, the Hanseatic City welcomed one of the very largest containerships currently serving the Port of Hamburg. With a capacity of 14,074 TEU (20-ft standard containers) and operated by China Shipping Container Lines, this vessel is one of the AGF class of exceptionally large containerships and bulkers.

Starting in November 2011, two new feeder line services will be scheduled for regular sailings between the Port of Hamburg and Russia. The shipping company Team Lines will be using the RUS 2 Service in the Hamburg – St. Petersburg – Hamburg – Bremerhaven – Hamburg rotation to augment its RUS 1 service handled by its own vessels with capacities of OOCL for containerised shipping to this key market region. The first ship will be sailing from Hamburg on 7 November. The Swan Container Line has also included Hamburg in its weekly schedule for its St. Petersburg service. On the Hamburg – St.

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and the rail operator Polzug Intermodal have opened a hub terminal near the Polish city of Poznán. The cuttingedge site – the first of its kind in Poland – now allows daily shuttle trains to be run between the North European sea ports and Poznán. This reduces transport times between Hamburg and Poznán alone by about a third.

On 7 June 2011 the UMM SALAL, the biggest containership to date belonging to United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), tied up in the Port of Hamburg on her maiden voyage. The giant container ship, with a capacity of 13,100 TEU (20 foot standard containers) was handled at Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH).

The UMM SALAL is 365.5 metres long, 48.40 metres wide and is equipped with over 1,000 reefer slots, making it the first of nine ships of this size to be completed in 2011 and 2012.

On Wednesday, 27 April 2011 at 18:00 hours, the “NYK Lodestar” docked at the HHLA Container-Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). Her cargo included containers shipped directly from Vietnam, to be unloaded in Hamburg. The “NYK Lodestar” was the first vessel of the Grand Alliance consortium of shipping companies to call at the Vietnamese deep-water port of Cai Mep, located about 60 kilometres southeast of Ho-Chi-Minh City, as part of their Asia-Europe service.

Hamburg as a universal port can handle goods of virtually every type. Thousands of service providers operate day and night, ensuring smooth operations in the Port of Hamburg, on the Elbe and in the wider port area.

With the new ‘Port of Hamburg Handbook 2011’ (142 pages), Port of Hamburg Marketing presents the whole spectrum of services from Hamburg’s port sector and its partner ports in the region. The focus here is on all modes of transport.