Európa második legnagyobb konténer kikötője növekedésre számít 2012-ben. 2011-ben Németország legnagyobb univerzális kikötője összes 132.2 millió tonnás tengeri áruszállítási volument ért el, ami 9,1%-os növekedést jelent. 2011-ben a konténer volumen összes 90 millió húszlábas konténer (TEU) mennyiségű volt, ami 2010-hez képest 1,12 millióval több TEU-t jelent.

Year by year, the number of exceptionally large ships (known as AGFs in German) calling in the Port of Hamburg is growing and with it, the size of such ships.

On 7 June 2011 the UMM SALAL, the biggest containership to date belonging to United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), tied up in the Port of Hamburg on her maiden voyage.

Under the “Gateway Hamburg” banner, the Port of Hamburg will be exhibiting at this year’s “transport logistic” trade fair in Munich.

The Port of Hamburg will be exhibiting again this year on a shared stand at the most important transport event in Russia. From 26 to 29 April Moscow is hosting the Russian and international transport industry. Over 500 exhibitors from more than 30 countries are in the Expocentre Fairground at Krasnaya Presnya.

At the end of a one-month journey, the CAP PALMERSTON was the first ship in the expanded North America West Coast (WAMS) service operated by Hamburg Süd to reach the Port of Hamburg this week.

On 6 March 2011, the container ship HANJIN CHENNAI docked in the Port of Hamburg for the first time within the scope of the new joint service shared by HANJIN, UASC, COSCO and CCNI between Northern Europe and the east coast of South America.

On February 23rd, 2011 the container vessel CSCL Star called the port of Hamburg on her maiden voyage in their Far East liner service “Asia-Europe Express-1/ China- Europe-Mediterranean Service” (AEX-1/CEM).

THE rising price of fuel could prove a major advantage to ports in the EU North Sea Region as they seek to develop and promote much more cruise activity. This was one of the key conclusions to emerge from the opening conference of the new Cruise Gateway North Sea Project.

In 2010 the Port of Hamburg returned to its growth course with total throughput of 121million tons. Alongside the gratifying progress of the German economy, the markets in the Baltic region and in Eastern Europe that are so important for the Port of Hamburg recovered ground in the course of 2010.

The EUROGATE container terminal operator group recorded a 5.2 per cent increase in its pan-European container handling volume for 2010.

According to new analysis released this week, container volumes across Europe ended the year on a high note with estimates for November 2010 reaching just over 3 million teu. That represented an increase of nearly 10% over the same month the previous year.

Following a record result in the first nine months of 2010 and its successful refinancing on the capital market, Hapag-Lloyd is again investing in future growth.

A joint delegation consisting of representatives of Hamburg’s port-related industries and the marketing organisation for Finland’s transport and logistics sector, Straight-way Finland, visited the Indian port city of Mumbai this week.

With a total of 5.9 million TEU (20-foot standard containers) handled, the container segment recorded double-digit growth of 10.7 per cent.

Global foreign trade shows a constant growth trend and brings Germany’s biggest seaport a strong plus in the handling of seaborne cargo. The result of the first halfyear 2010 shows an 8 per cent growth of total cargo handling.

The docking of the CMA CGM CALLISTO at the Port of Hamburg in the afternoon of 6 August marked the arrival of the first container giant operating in the new FAL5 service.

The representatives from politics, associations and port management could not have found weightier arguments, and therewith a better date, for the subject of “Urgency of deepening the fairway of the Lower and Outer Elbe”.