Sea-borne cargo handling at the Port of Hamburg – 1958 to 2009
Sea-borne cargo handling – imports and exports
Container throughput in 2009
Handling of conventional general cargo in 2009
Overview of cargo handling
Bulk cargo handling at the Port of Hamburg
Container handling, breakdown by continent
Container handling, breakdown by trading area
Sea-borne cargo handling at partner ports
Container port throughput in a global comparison
Top 10 partners in maritime container trade
Total port container handling
Calls at the Port of Hamburg
Inland navigation
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Project cargo is especially large or bulky cargo that cannot be transported in a container. Examples are parts of cranes or wind power stations, turbines, or ship propellers.
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The Port of Hamburg has 320 berths.
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The port covers an area of 7,399 hectares, of which 4,331 hectares are land area. An area of 919 hectares is planned for port expansion. The urban area covers 755 square kilometres.
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“Loco” refers to the part of the cargo traffic that has its destination in the area around the port. It is not transported to the hinterland.
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In addition to container handling, a universal port is geared to all forms of non-containerised cargo like project cargo, suction cargo, liquid cargo, grab cargo and bulk cargo.

Trend for the volume of sea-borne cargo handling at the Port of Hamburg, shown in five-year intervals.
Trend for the volume of sea-borne cargo handling at the Port of Hamburg for the years 2008 and 2009, showing imports and exports separately.
Trend for the volume of container handling at the Port of Hamburg.
Overview of the handling volume in the conventional general cargo segment.
The overview shows the figures for the segments of bulk cargo, liquid cargo, suction cargo, grabbable cargo, conventional general cargo and containers for recent years.
Bulk cargo handling for the year 2009.
Diagram showing container handling figures broken down by continent.
Trend in the volume of container handling, broken down by trading area.
Evaluation of volume trends in sea-borne cargo handling at Hamburg’s partner ports in the region for the years 2008 and 2009.
Container throuput at the world’s leading container ports: select up to 10 ports, or view the top 10 ports in the world.
The most important market partners for container handling at the Port of Hamburg in the year 2009.
You will find the container port handling in a global comparison here.
11.899 vessels callled the Port of Hamburg in 2008 overall. Thereof 7.155 were containerships.
Container transport by environmentally friendly inland waterway vessel grows by 29 percent.





















