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■ 50 YEARS OF CONTAINERS IN HAMBURG
50 years of change
HIGHLIGHTS OF HAMBURG’S PROGRESS AS A CONTAINER PORT
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US forwarder Malcolm McLean invents the standardized container as a practi- cal transport box
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On 31 May 1968 the ‘American Lancer’ is the first fully cellular containership to call in the Port of Hamburg. The first container train had been handled at Burchardkai only a few weeks earlier, on 5 February
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Prompted by Helmuth Kern, Hamburg Minister of Economics, the Ham-
burg government decides to expand Burchardkai into a container terminal. The port’s first container gantry cranes are erected there, initially lifting contai- ners off multi-purpose vessels
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At Hamburg’s Burchardkai the first containers are dischargched, then still by conventional cranes. Containers are simply additional deck cargo and attract very little attention
Eurokai Container Terminal, now Eurogate, enters service in Walterhofer docks
The challenges of the dawning con- tainer era cause two long-established shipping companies to merge: HAPAG - Hamburg-American Line and NDL - North German Lloyd in Bremen. Head office of the new Hapag-Lloyd AG (HLAG) is in Hamburg
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