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A crane mooring and a pontoon are available waterside for the loading and unloading of seafaring vessels and inland ships.
Niche tradition
Louis Hagel has been an established name at the Port of Hamburg for decades. The company specialised in handling fertiliser wishes to expand its site.
BY CLAUDIA BEHREND
While many family businesses worry about finding a successor, Managing Director Horst Hagel would like to grow the port company Louis Hagel. That is be- cause at the 13,000-square metre “small” site at the heart of the Port of Hamburg, maximum efficiency has long been squeezed out of every available square metre. The port handling company has thus been able
to handle around 800,000 tonnes, dispatch a range of ships from all around the world, load and unload vari- ous freight trains as well as load around 10,000 trucks in the last year alone.
Although officially founded in Hamburg in 1878, the port enterprise Louis Hagel has actually been around
© Louis Hagel