The representatives from politics, associations and port management could not have found weightier arguments, and therewith a better date, for the subject of “Urgency of deepening the fairway of the Lower and Outer Elbe”.
Sea cargo handling at the Port of Hamburg increases again with a total of 28.6 million tons for the first quarter of 2010, representing 4.6 per cent growth.
Cargo handling in March 2010 tops the 10-million ton mark for the first time since November 2008 and reaches 10.5 million tons (up by 10.7 per cent).
Just in time for the start of the Port of Hamburg’s trade fair appearances in 2010, Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM) has issued an up-to-date overview of liner services from the Port of Hamburg. Whether you are interested in seagoing vessels, feeder services, inland waterway connections or rail links – Port of Hamburg Liner Services 2010/2011 gives a complete listing over 218 pages of regular seagoing services from Hamburg, with something like 920 destinations in 177 countries.
Hamburg is often called the gateway to the world. And in fact, shipping lines connect the city to more than 900 other ports in 177 countries around the world. About 12.000 seagoing ships call at the Port of Hamburg every year.
The inaugural arrival on 28 April 2010 at the Port of Hamburg meant that the number of Far East–Northern Europe liner services operated by the “Grand Alliance” – a consortium of the shipping companies Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL – once again totals four.
The container shipping line United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), based in Kuwait, has reinstated its second Europe–Far East service. The first arrival of the AEC-1 scheduled liner service at the Port of Hamburg took place on 27 April 2010 with the docking of the container ship ABU DHABI.
