Cargo Services

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.

In future supply and demand in the Port of Hamburg should be matched even more efficiently. From today the new online shop-system PORTlog is online. Both German and international customers should immediately be able to locate the right service provider in the warehousing, logistics or transport fields for their imports and exports in Hamburg and the metropolitan region rapidly and precisely. More than 1000 warehousing and logistics companies operate in the Hamburg region alone.

The Port of Hamburg has reason to look to the future with optimism. At 32.8 million tons, total seaborne cargo throughput for the first three months of 2013 put the Port of Hamburg back on a growth course. The trend in bulk cargo handling, especially, fuelled the increase in seaborne cargo handling: In the first quarter of the year a total of 10.1 million tons of bulk cargoes were handled in Hamburg, corresponding to an increase of 6.3 percent.