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Precision needed
Not everything traded with China fits into a container. Polish-Chinese shipping com- pany Chipolbrok regularly calls the Port of Hamburg to tranship project cargo to and from Asia. On the MS ‘Chipolbrok Moon’, loading four cable tanks from an inland wa- terway craft called for precision handling. With the shipboard crane able to handle up to 320 tons, handling these items was no major challenge. But lifting two tanks simul- taneously, while not breaking their cable link, truly was. That required massive concentra- tion from the crane operators, and brought moments of great tension for ship’s master Huang Yizhou, his freight officer and the ship- ping line’s most experienced supercargo, Cap- tain Robert Kobylecki. He was on board to su- pervise planning and the ship’s movement. All went like clockwork and so the freighter sailed
off on her long voyage free of any cares.
©Chipolbrok
Chinese language and
culture in Hamburg
Learn Chinese or simply take a taster course, experience Chinese art through exhi- bitions or readings in the teahouse, take a course in calligraphy or attend a games evening – Hamburg University’s Confucius In-
stitute offers all those opportunities, and more,
including many briefing and networking ses- sions for adults, as well as children’s activities. Revived by the government of the People’s Republic of China, Confucius Institutes go back centuries. Unlike Germany’s Goethe In- stitutes, however, these are run in cooperation with an institution in the host country. In most cases, these are high schools with estab- lished China specializations. In Hamburg the Institute takes the public stage very often – for example at the final concert of ‘China Time in Hamburg’. www.ki-hh.de
© Konfuzius-Institut Hamburg/ Stefanie Urban