The Port of Hamburg has announced its 9 months 2018 results. The port achieved a total throughput of 100.8 mln tons, which is 3.4% below the 2017 level, due to lower volumes of bulk cargo and containers, although conventional general cargo slightly increased. Hamburg handled 6.6 mln TEU in January-September 2018, -2.4% as compared to […]
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the leading European port and transport logistics group, has announced that it will use automated guided vehicles (AGVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries to move containers at its Container Terminal Alternwerder (CTA) between ships and the yard in future. The terminal has been testing a prototype of this container transporter […]
Yesterday, 26 March 2018, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), the leading European port and transport logistics group, signed a contract to acquire Estonia’s leading stevedoring company Transiidikeskuse AS. Transiidikeskuse AS (TK) operates TK Muuga, the largest Estonian container terminal located at the port of Muuga on the Baltic Sea close to the country’s capital […]
As from today, 29 November, all four container terminals at the port of Hamburg implement a time slot-booking system for trucks collecting or delivering containers, informs the port’s press service. With this initiative, Hamburg becomes the first German seaport to introduce such a system to optimize truck handling and avoid bottlenecks at the port. Now […]
HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg handled the first vessel by 5 new mega-STS cranes dedicated to serve ships with a capacity of over 20,000 TEU. The 13,400 TEU-capacity COSCO Netherlands arrived at CTT last Friday, 20 October, and left on Saturday night. During this time, the 5 STS cranes discharged and loaded about […]
HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) in Hamburg handled a 126-tonne project cargo on 1 June, informs HHLA. The giant rotary cooker of 24 metres in length and 4.40 metres in diameter was made in China and loaded on board CSCL Jupiter, a container ship of 14,000 TEU capacity of COSCO Shipping Lines, in Shanghai in […]
On 15 May 2017 at 9 pm MOL TRIUMPH, one of the world’s largest containerships of today, arrived at HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) in Hamburg, informs HHLA. Having a capacity of 20,170 TEU, the new flagship of Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) is the first vessel of over 20,000 TEU calling the Port of […]
