At 99 million tons, in the first nine months of the year throughput in the Port of Hamburg advanced by around 11 percent. This excellent, above-average result on throughput enabled the Port of Hamburg to recover market share in competition with the major ports in Northern Europe.
Totalling 6.8 million TEU (20-ft standard containers), throughput in Hamburg grew at a double-digit (15.3 percent) rate and hence distinctly faster than in the West ports of Antwerp (up 3.1 percent) and Rotterdam (up 7.7 percent).
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg gained the prestigious European Green Capital title on the recommendation of a panel of environmental experts. They gave it top marks, ranking it above the 34 other European cities in the competition – no mean achievement!
Das zweisprachige, vierteljährlich erscheinende Magazin für Kunden und Partner beinhaltet News und Special Reports des jeweils vergangenen Quartals. Die zweite Ausgabe im Jahr 2011 informiert insbesondere über transport logistic Messe München 2011
Hamburg as a universal port can handle goods of virtually every type. Thousands of service providers operate day and night, ensuring smooth operations in the Port of Hamburg, on the Elbe and in the wider port area.
With the new ‘Port of Hamburg Handbook 2011’ (142 pages), Port of Hamburg Marketing presents the whole spectrum of services from Hamburg’s port sector and its partner ports in the region. The focus here is on all modes of transport.
The Port of Hamburg is the most important European seaport for Chinese foreign trade in the field of containerised transport. Today more than half of Germany’s foreign trade with the People’s Republic of China goes through the Port of Hamburg.
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).
Over 50 guests took advantage of the invitation extended by Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) to attend a presentation entitled “European Aid Programmes for ‘Motorways of the Sea’ Projects” at the Hafen-Klub Hamburg on 21 April.
