Commodities in the Port of Hamburg
The sheet shows the cargo turnover of bulk, liquid, agribulk, grabber cargo and container.Port handling development
The chart illustrates the overall port throughput from 1958 to 2008 and shows the changes in sections of five years in per cent. Calls at the Port of Hamburg
11.899 vessels callled the Port of Hamburg in 2008 overall. Thereof 7.155 were containerships.Container throughput
The figure of 9.7 million TEU (twenty feet equivalent unit) for container handling declined just short (-1.5 percent) of the record result of 2007. Handling of seaborne cargo
140,4 Mio t seaborne cargo was handled at the Port of Hamburg in the year 2008. the past year the cargo handled at the Port of Hamburg's terminals came to 140.4 million tons – falling only just short of the record result from the year before. Container turnover by continents
Hamburg is Europes leading container port for traffic to and from Asia and China. Bulk cargo handling
With a total of 42.5 million tons, the handling of bulk cargo reached an excellent final result, marking an improvement of 1.8 percent as compared with 2007. Inland navigation
Container transport by environmentally friendly inland waterway vessel grows by 29 percent.Trading partners in container handling
ontainers transported to and from Asia reached a total of only 2.1 million TEU (-25.1 percent). Total port container handling
You will find the container port handling in a global comparison here.Container port handling in a global comparison
Container throughput in the world-wide most important container ports
What is project cargo?
How many berths does the Port of Hamburg have?
How big is the Port of Hamburg?
What does “Loco” mean?
What does the term “universal port” mean?
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Project cargo is especially large or bulky cargo that cannot be transported in a container. Examples are parts of cranes or wind power stations, turbines, or ship propellers.
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The Port of Hamburg has 320 berths.
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The port covers an area of 7,399 hectares, of which 4,331 hectares are land area. An area of 919 hectares is planned for port expansion. The urban area covers 755 square kilometres.
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“Loco” refers to the part of the cargo traffic that has its destination in the area around the port. It is not transported to the hinterland.
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In addition to container handling, a universal port is geared to all forms of non-containerised cargo like project cargo, suction cargo, liquid cargo, grab cargo and bulk cargo.
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