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■ CONTAINER WORLDS
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In striking pink
Trucks are among the main means of transport in the Port of Hamburg. Last year, Bremerhaven- based forwarder GCD Glomb Container Service transported 254,200 TEU – 20-ft standard containers. To optimize processes still further, the company is working on electronic exchange of as much data as possible.
In Germany’s largest port, forwarder GCD Glomb’s striking pink trucks are hard to miss. That’s not just a matter of the fluorescent livery that founder Sigward Glomb senior first introduced as a protection against theft in ports then without any security staff. The main reason for their presence is that the Bremerhav- en-based company specializes in shipping sea con- tainers and is therefore regularly on the move to and
from Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Bremen in the ‘wet triangle’.
“The Port of Hamburg is of immense importance for us,” stresses Sigward Glomb junior, Joint CEO with his brother Matthias of the company specializing in container transport, founded by their father Sigward Glomb senior. in 1980. The company’s annual turno- ver is now around 30 million euros. Along with short-