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Foreword by Joint CEOs
Dear Readers,
2019 was a successful year for the Port of Hamburg: Seaborne cargo throughput rose to 136.6 million tons and container handling at 9.3 million TEU achieved strong growth of 6.1 percent. Up by over ten percent, transport of 2.7 million TEU by rail set a fresh record.
Yet however favourable this sounds, any retrospect as we publish the Annual Report of Port of Hamburg Marketing – HHM is problematical. This year 2020
is currently so strongly impacted by the coronavirus and its consequences that even when looking at last year, it is impossible to ignore these. Instead of making it complete, comprehensive and accurately detailed account, we should like to use it to trigger hope by showing what HHM stands for in the first place, namely togetherness and mutual support.
It is especially because we are currently having to forego events of particular importance for our work that we have deliberately selected this keynote topic. Instead, we shall seek to flesh out new ways of togetherness and mutual support, remaining very creative in doing so. For instance, we are communi- cating more online so as to continue to let members have data and to conduct an interchange with them. For some time, digitalization has been a major topic in the Port of Hamburg. We were already expanding our online activities last year, filling new channels
with interesting content. We receive the substance of this partly from our members, who profit from its dissemination via our platforms.
We have listed the additional advantages of mem-
bership of Port of Hamburg Marketing in this Annual
Report. These are very far-reaching and so of inter-
est, not just to potential and new members, but also » for existing ones.
In looking back on numerous superb events held last year, we aim to remember these but also to give you encouragement, because times like these will come again. Apart from the largest event in 2019, the transport logistic trade fair in Munich, there were many other, also extremely successful events facilitating making and maintaining contacts, as well as exchanging expertise. Last year’s topics were varied. These ranged from the New Silk Road and the start of work on the fairway adjustment on the Lower and Outer Elbe, to Brexit and digitalization, to topics such as the hinterland and sustainability, and far beyond. The present report aims to provide you with a picture – in the truest sense of the word – of all this.
As mentioned above, 2019 was a successful year for the Port of Hamburg. Several factors contributed, first and foremost the work of our members. Toge- ther, we surmounted many challenges. Here again, we should like to mention togetherness as a factor.
Instead of making it complete, comprehensive and accurately detailed account, we should like to use it to trigger hope by
showing what HHM stand«
s for
in the first place, namely together-
ness and mutual support.