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AUTOMATIC DETECTION UNITS FACILITATE STILL BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT RAIL OPERATION IN THE PORT
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Hamburg Port Railway – Handling by the minute
The Port of Hamburg is Europe’s largest rail freight hub. The Hamburg Port Railway network handled more than 60,000 freight trains with 46.78 million tons of freight and 2.44 million standard containers in 2018 alone.
This handsomely topped 2016 as previous record year and strengthened Hamburg’s position as Europe’s leading rail port. Apart from the especially heavy and out-of-gauge conventional cargoes trans- ported by rail via the universal port of Hamburg, 38 percent of all freight trains moving on the German rail network have the Port of Hamburg as their star- ting point or destination.
“The positive figures for the Port Railway are a suc- cess achieved along with our partners in recent years. We can be truly proud of this achievement,”
says Jens Meier, Chief Executive Officer of Ham- burg Port Authority - HPA.
AT THE READY ROUND THE CLOCK
Both the tremendous throughput/transport volumes of the port and the vast number of transport companies, operators and service providers involved in rail ship- ments are organized in a cutting-edge IT-based oper- ating system. Each of the customers involved receives the data required for planning and implementation of the logistics process. Day and night, operations on the
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