Hamburg Port

Port of Hamburg

Pickhuben 6
Hamburg
Germany

Established in year 1189, the multipurpose Port of Hamburg, situated 130 km from the mouth of the River Elbe, is today the largest harbour in Germany (139 mln tn of freight turnover in 2013). With 9 mln TEU Hamburg is also Europe’s 2^nd biggest container port.

Every kind of cargo can be handled in Hamburg. There are four box terminals and more than 30 other facilities, serving heavy-lifts, break-bulk, suction goods, liquids and ro-ro freight. Future development will be chiefly focused on container handling expansion with the aim of increasing the terminals’ total capacity up to 18 mln TEU, all of this to strengthen Hamburg’s hub role for overseas trades as well as feeder traffic to & from other parts of Europe.

With more than 110 liner services liner services, linking directly the harbour with the majority of 1,000 seaports worldwide, the Port of Hamburg offers versatile sea freight opportunities. Hamburg has also the densest network of feeder connections in Northern Europe, serving also as the leading transhipment spot for the entire Baltic Sea region (approx. 160 feeder and short-sea connections to/from Baltic and North Seas). In addition, Port of Hamburg offers top hinterland connections by truck, railway and inland waterway, with dozens of shuttles leaving the harbour every week to destinations all over Europe.