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■ BREAKBULK
on equipment that is partly transported direct to Hamburg by sea.
At the same time, construction equipment goes from the Port of Hamburg to Canada and the USA, mainly using Unikai. Last year, 26 Ro/Ro shipments went through this terminal. A further conventional shipment went from Süd-West-Terminal. In total, Liebherr handled some 3.6 million tons. This includ- ed seven excavators, five crawler cranes, five drilling machines and eleven other machines or spare parts. This year too, handling is continuing. By the end of April, a crawler crane, five drilling machines and three more large segments were loaded. As last
year, in the first four months of this year, most of the loading was handled at Unikai.
The desirability of Liebherr machines and equip- ment has continued to increase. With the launch of the first battery-powered crawler crane in the world – the LR 1250.1 unplugged, the company has smoothed its path into the future and presented a further innovation. With this, the company is con- tinuing on its way (compare the Info level: Mile- stones in...). The Port of Hamburg will remain an important hub for exports, as well as for mainte- nance and repair of the most varied of construction equipment. ■ Liebherr/Johanning
Port of Hamburg Marketing: Well established in Vienna for 70 years
The Port of Hamburg’s Representative Office in Vi- enna was founded in 1951. At the time, the annual volume of trade between Austria and Hamburg to- talled about 80,000 tons. Good cooperation with companies in Hamburg, and support through the Vi- enna Representative Office’s activities, enabled the milestone limit of one million tons to be reached for the first time in 1965. To this day, in the container sector Hamburg has remained the top port for over- seas shipments to and from Austria without a break. Along with containers, breakbulk cargo is also
Alexander Till, Head of the Representative Office in Vienna
shipped to and from Austria via the Port of Hamburg. Many former breakbulk shipments have been con- tainerized down the years due to product adaptation. These include those for Andritz, Doppelmayr, Waag- ner Biro and Siemens, for example. Current break- bulk customers from Austria include Plasser & Theurer, Rosenbauer, Liebherr, Andritz, Ebner Indus- trieofenbau and Engel.
“One positive trend has been apparent since 2019: fresh throughput records have been achieved thanks to the part-transfer to the Port of Hamburg of voes-
talpine’s raw material deliveries,” says Alexander Till, Head of the Representative Office in Vienna. The work of the Representative Office in Vienna has always been adjusted to serve the interests of mem- ber companies and customers on this market. Over the decades, it has changed substantially. The Repre- sentative Office in Vienna’s core activities now in- clude a high number of personal appointments, hence a strong presence on the Austrian market, and a host of lectures at headline events in the logistics sector. In addition, trips to Hamburg are also organ- ized and escorted for representatives of Austrian busi- ness and politics. Last year a trip for city councillor Pe- ter Hanke was included in the programme. Trips to Hamburg were also arranged for the Austrian Indus- tries Association and the province of Lower Austria. The Representative Office in Vienna annually organ- izes numerous maritime events throughout Austria. Among these is the traditional Port Evening. With around 250 guests, this is the largest maritime func- tion in the whole of Austria. A total of about 600 peo- ple annually participate in Representative Office events.
“With an advance of two percent and 4.45 million tons, in 2020 the Port of Hamburg achieved a record figure on its Austria services. In tonnage terms, this made it the best-ever year since records com- menced back in the 1950s,” said Axel Mattern, Joint CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing.
“Besides throughput of general cargoes, the majori- ty of those handled in Hamburg being transported in containers, the universal port is also a top hub for bulk cargo. Large quantities of iron ore from Ham- burg’s Hansaport terminal are delivered to the voes- talpine group in Austria by rail. Last year alone, voes- talpine imported 1.3 million tons of ore via the Port of Hamburg,” explained Ingo Egloff, Joint CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing. red
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