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Hamburg – The hub for Northern Europe
The Port of Hamburg lies at the centre of internatio- nal transport routes. With its dense network of more than 100 worldwide liner services and its well-deve- loped transport links, for the German economy and the foreign trade of its European neighbours, it fulfils an essential function in worldwide trade. Numerous feeder and short sea services per week make the
port the transhipment hub for countries in the North Sea and Baltic region. More than 200 freight trains daily cater for the arrival and departure of imports and exports. In addition, eleven autobahns run into and around the Hanseatic City. Hamburg is linked with the German inland waterway network via the Elbe, the Elbe Lateral Canal and Mittelland Canal.
Transhipment
hub for the North Sea
and Baltic Regions
47
3.4
437
million
TEU, or 38.7 million tons, of transhipment cargo were handled via the Port of Hamburg in 2017 for its trading partners
Oversea traffic
8.8 million TEU or 136.5 million tons
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feeder services link Hamburg with destina- tions in Scandinavia, Russia, the Baltic States, Poland and the United Kingdom
nautical miles, for example, is the advantage when using the route to Gda´nsk in Poland via the Kiel Canal, compared to the 874 nautical miles around the northern tip of Denmark