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The Hamburg cruise market
Cruise holidays, growing for years, are another important market for the Port of Hamburg. In 2018 Cruise Gate Hamburg – CGH – reported 220 calls and 915,000 passengers, after 198 / 813,000 in 2017. Looking at the trend between 2015 and 2018, growth totalled 76 percent. Progress handsomely outpaces the norm elsewhere on the European mar- ket. In the world rankings, Hamburg belongs to the Top Twenty, with growth figures above those of Sydney and Miami. The city regards ecologi- cally sustainable growth as essential, since Hamburg aims to be a green port. One milestone here is environ- ment-friendly energy supply at all cruise terminals.
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Always well connected with
Connection Compass
Offering 2,100 rail services per week, Hamburg is Europe’s leading rail port. Over 150 rail operators plus various book- ing agencies offer container and multimodal links with the whole of Europe and beyond.
Apart from China, top destinations served outside Germa- ny include Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slova- kia and Switzerland.
The leading German states for seaport-hinterland rail ser- vices are Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-West- phalia, Hesse and Saxony. The wide range of services by truck and inland waterway craft guarantees a multimodal choice.
Details of all the Port of Hamburg’s intercontinental sea- borne liner services, European feeder and short-sea ser- vices, all inland container block-train services with termi- nals in Germany and the rest of Europe, as well the regular services by inland waterway craft on the German river/ca- nal system, are available online at hafen-hamburg.de/de/ linerservices and hafen-hamburg.de/de/intermodal. They can also be found in Port of Hamburg Marketing’s CON- NECTION COMPASS brochure.
