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36 | Port of Hamburg Magazine | September 2019
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An inland market: Double-digit growth for transport of containers and bulk cargoes by inland waterway craft
Hamburg is Germany’s largest universal port and with a throughput of 99 mil- lion tons in 2018, is its second biggest inland port. Handling 34,640 TEU – 20-ft standard containers, the first quarter of 2019, the latter booked a 20 percent plus on the same period of the previous year.
At 2.57 million tons in the first three months of 2019, the total volume of freight transported between the Port of Hamburg and inland destinations showed dou- ble-digit growth at a rate of 12.1 percent.
This year from May onwards, one factor putting a brake on further vol- ume increase for inland shipping was the low
water that made the
River Elbe barely navi-
gable.
The expected increase
in seaport–hinterland transports in the com- ing years provides Hamburg with good prospects for more transports by barge in the Elbe basin. However, it is necessary that the in- frastructure be better adapted to fit the require- ments of inland shipping.
FROM FIVE O’CLOCK EVERY SUNDAY MORNING:
HAMBURG’S FISH MARKET – IDEAL FOR VISITORS FROM ELSEWHERE
Now primarily a tourist attraction but also highly popular with local night owls, Hamburg’s Fish Market is traditionally a mart for wares of all sorts from all over the world. Most of these will have reached the city through the Port of Hamburg: Fish, vegetables, garments, plants, live poultry, and above all, bananas. The rule here is: The later you surface, the better the chances of bargaining. Alongside the fish auction hall, the fish market has thrived for over 300 years, now luring up to 70,000 visitors every Sunday morning from five o’clock onwards... In winter, it
starts two hours later.
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