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Published by Port of Hamburg Marketing, the new 2013/2014 edition of “Port of Hamburg Liner Services” (78 pages) provides a comprehensive overview of direct liner connections from Germany’s largest seaport. This magazine-format Special contains a listing of the Port of Hamburg’s services under liner, feeder and short-sea categories. Sailings from Hamburg’s partner ports of Cuxhaven and Lübeck are also included.

With the new edition of the “Port of Hamburg Handbook 2013”, Port of Hamburg Marketing provides an insight into the variety and range of services of the Port of Hamburg. In various articles the new issue provides port customers and all those with an interest in the Port of Hamburg useful information in German and English on the range of services of the mainly small and medium-sized firms, or Mittelstand that constitute the bulk of all businesses in the port, and of partner ports in the region.

Hafen TV wins Award for best Port Communication

Hafen TV has won the Port Communications Award 2013 for the world’s best port communications project. The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) awarded the TV series co-produced by the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) for the successful communication between ports, calling it an outstanding example. Geraldine Knatz, President of the IAPH, presented the HPA’s Managing Director, Jens Meier, with the Gold Award within the scope of the world ports conference in Los Angeles.

Copenhagen, April 2013: Boundaries in the head are slower to disappear than frontiers between countries. This was the realization of the mid-term event participants of the EU logistics project Amber Coast Logistics (ACL), held at the end of April in Copenhagen, Denmark. The potential for growth in the flow of goods between Western Europe and the Baltic Sea region nonetheless remains high.

Around 50 companies from the port, transport and logistics sector in Hamburg and the region will be presenting their services under the joint “Gateway Hamburg” banner at transport logistic 2013, the world’s largest logistics trade fair being held in Munich from 4 to 7 June.

Only delivered at the end of February, the recently completed containership COSCO BELGIUM will be berthing in Hamburg on 11 April. Operating under the Hong Kong flag, this ULCC is 366 metres long, 51 metres wide and when fully loaded has a draft of 15.5 metres. She is the first of altogether eight 13,380 TEU (20-feet standard container) vessels ordered by COSCO from the Chinese NACKS shipyard in April 2008. Designed to fulfill the latest environmental standards, this series of newbuildings represents the largest ship type so far built by any shipyard in China.

Infrastructural bottlenecks in port hinterland traffic are becoming increasingly acute, irrespective of the mode of transport, and are fuelling growing alarm among all the players involved. Such was the universal feeling at the parliamentary evening in Berlin organized by Port of Hamburg Marketing and attended by Peter Ramsauer, Germany’s Minister of Transport, and around 150 high-ranking representatives of the world of politics, business and trade associations.

Russia is the second-most important trading partner for the Port of Hamburg in terms of seaborne container handling. With a total volume of approx. 675,000 standard containers (TEU) handled between Hamburg and the Russian ports, the volume of container traffic was up by a further 13.3 per cent in 2012, consolidating the lead in foreign trade with Europe and overseas via Hamburg. This positive trend is also attributable to Russia’s decision to join the WTO, resulting in associated simplifications in commercial law as well as the dismantling of trade barriers.

In 2012 the Port of Hamburg’s seaborne cargo throughput reached 130.9 million tons (- 1.0 percent). General cargo throughput at 91.5 million tons was just below the previous year‘s (- 1.2 percent). Bulk cargo throughput at 39.4 million tons (- 0.4 percent) also remained just below the 2011 total. At 8.9 million TEU (20-ft standard containers) in 2012 total container handling predominating in Hamburg was slightly lower (- 1.7 percent).