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 ■ BREAKBULK
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 Wallmann cranes can hoist several hundred tons in tandem operation
Tradition meets innovation
The Wallmann Terminal in Hamburg represents a long tradition of handling conventional general cargo. Acquisition of the company will provide packaging and supply chain specialist Deufol with the knowhow to further expand its range of services.
- Maximum draft: 13 m
- Multimodal infrastructure
- Maximum crane capacity: 400 tons - Shed capacity: 51.000 m2
- Open-space capacity: 45.000 m2
 Recent years have brought considerable change in the conventional general cargo market. On the one hand, many cargoes have been switched over to containers. On the other, customers wish for active support in the transport process at all levels. “In the last few years we have increasingly seen a change in how we handle our activities. Many customers want more services above and beyond the normal handling
process plus storage,” says Hubertus Ritzke, a member of Wallmann’s Man- agement Board, adding that: “With the takeover by packaging and supply chain specialist Deufol, in precisely that area we shall now have far more to offer and are looking positively to the future.”
Wallmann was in fact ready well posi- tioned in the breakbulk business with the terminal. At up to 400 tons, for a long time the lifting capacity of the four cranes was alone sufficient to ensure full orderbooks for these heavy cargo specialists. In addition, all outsize and bulky shipments simply found their way to the terminal on account of its multimodal links. These consist espe- cially of gigantic generators, or industri-
al plant that can be delivered direct to the terminal by inland waterway craft, to be further readied for deeps- ea transport. Other project shipments arrive at the ter- minal by road or by rail.
Requiring a high degree of expertise, this essential section of the supply chain for heavy or bulky cargoes is extremely complex and time-consuming. Not every
  Deufol digitalizes many processes with its own supply chain solution
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