The Port of Hamburg is exhibitor at the “BREAKBULK Europe Transportation Conference & Exhibition” in Antwerp (stand number 708)

The Port of Hamburg is Europe’s second largest container port and Germany’s premier universal port. The multipurpose terminals in the Hamburg port have longtime experience and modern equipment to handle break bulk or conventional and project cargo. Among the 110 million tons of cargo handled last year in the port, there were around 2,4 million tons of conventional cargo. This includes bagged or palletized commodities, metals, fruit, paper and other forestry products, potash and other chemicals, heavy lift cargo or oversized load – even complete plants, factories and industrial parts.

Hamburg’s eight multi-purpose terminals provide some 30 berths where break bulk and general cargo can be handled, and the port also has a range of heavy lift facilities including mobile and floating cranes for use in all parts of the port. Together with the Port of Hamburg Marketing association a number of these specialized operators for break bulk and project cargo from the Hamburg metropolitan region are exhibiting in Antwerp: Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH, Buss Ports, Paul Grimm GmbH & Co. KG, Rhenus Midgard GmbH & Co. KG and Wallmann & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG).

From ro-ro, con-ro facilities to special terminals for fruit handling, Germany’s largest seaport offers every cargo related service and diverse expertise including comprehensive warehousing, packing services, all kind of transportation from and to the seaport hinterland, storage, logistics and distribution services.

Even if Hamburg as a powerful industrial and trading centre located in the Elbe metropolitan region itself generates at least one-third of seaborne imports and exports, the bulk of cargoes handled in the port’s seaborne foreign trade are sent inland by rail, truck or barge service.

Tailormade Product Services for Green Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Spices, Nuts, Dried Fruit, Tobacco, Paper, Rubber, Steel and Project Cargo

Hamburg is the biggest import and export place for green coffee worldwide, and Germany’s biggest import place for commodities such as tea, cocoa and others. Nearly 1 million tons of green coffee, 254,000 tons of cocoa, more than 344,000 tons of tea and spices were handled by Hamburg based port companies last year. Most of Hamburg’s warehouse operators are registered with the London International Futures Exchange (LIFFE) and with the New York Board Trade (NYBOT) as proved warehouse keepers.

The International Cocoa Trading Organization (ICCO) uses Hamburg as a centre to store its buffer stocks. Other warehouse keepers in Hamburg are registered with the London Metal Exchange (LME). Most of these specialized warehouse operators offer services as cleaning, customs clearance, processing, sorting and delivery to final destination or to production.

Experts offer Export Packing Services in the Port

All Hamburg based seaport packing companies offer excellent facilities for intermediate storage, professional transportation and all kind of packing services, data transfer through EDI, ISO certification and membership with other German packing standard guidelines and associations.