Port of Hamburg

08/10/2025

🌊 Die neue Ausgabe unseres Port of Hamburg Magazins ist da – mit dem Titel „Revierfahrt“!

Die Elbe ist mehr als ein Wasserweg: sie ist Lebensader, Symbol und Rückgrat des Hafens. Sie verbindet Hamburg mit der Welt und hält den Hafen Tag für Tag am Puls des Handels.

In dieser Ausgabe nehmen wir Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise entlang des Flusses. Lernen Sie die Menschen kennen, die den Hafen am Laufen halten:

⚓ Lotsen, die Schiffe sicher durch das Fahrwasser führen
🚢 Schlepper, die Ozeanriesen präzise an die Kaikante manövrieren
🧭 Unternehmen und Organisationen, die gemeinsam für nachhaltige Lieferketten, sichere Arbeitsplätze und starke Wirtschaftsstrukturen sorgen.

Taucht ein in die Geschichten, die den Hafen lebendig machen!

📰 Jetzt die neue Ausgabe lesen: https://bit.ly/3WroBjN

📷 HHM / Elbreklame​

06/10/2025

Nachdem sie im Juni beim bunten MSC Yellow Festival in Hamburg getauft wurde, ist die MSC Germany zurück in unserem Hafen! 🚢 Heute gegen 18 Uhr wird sie am Container Terminal Burchardkai festmachen.

Mit 366 m Länge und 51 m Breite gehört sie zu einer der größten Klassen moderner Containerschiffe und kann 16.000 Container transportieren. Angetrieben wird sie mit emissionsarmem LNG, was sie zu einem der innovativsten und nachhaltigsten Containerschiffe ihrer Generation macht.

📍 Eines der modernsten & umweltfreundlichsten Containerschiffe der Welt – willkommen zurück, MSC Germany! 💛

📷 MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company

05/01/2023

⚓️ This page is no longer active. We want to say thank you to all our followers and invite you to follow our German page Hafen Hamburg that we now focus on! If you are looking for more English content, you can also follow our Instagram or our LinkedIn page . Further information on the Port of Hamburg can of course also be found on our website https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/homepage/?. See you there. Ahoy! 🛳

Hafen Hamburg

06/01/2021

With over 2000 weekly freight train connections, the Port of Hamburg is Europe's largest railway port. With a network consisting of various rail terminal segments with more than 750 points and almost 300 kilometres of track, of which some 160 kilometres are electrified, Hamburg Port Railway ensures that each and every train, railcar and container reaches its destination.

In doing so, Hamburg Port Railway ensures the maintenance but also the expansion of the facilities. For example, the new Kattwyk rail bridge was opened shortly before Christmas. It now crosses the Süderelbe on two tracks and connects the western and eastern parts of the port.

Continue reading the latest issue of our Port of Hamburg Magazine! Find it online at :http://ow.ly/m6uB50D1ljW ..and on the Port of Hamburg App.

📸 HPA/Andreas Schmidt-Wiehoff

24/11/2020

The shows signs of economic recovery in the third quarter. At a rate of eight percent, the decline in seaborne cargo handling is significantly lower than in the previous quarter. Container handling totals at 2.3 milllion TEU (-4.9 percent).

Continue reading: https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/news/the-port-of-hamburg-throughput-shows-signs-of-turnaround---37019

📸: Hasenpusch Productions

28/10/2020

In an online ceremony on October 27, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) and Tanger Med Port Authority signed a Letter of Intent to form a partnership.

Both Hamburg Port Authority and Tanger Med Port Authority hold strong leadership positions in their respective regions and pursue common goals within the framework of port cooperation - including port management, logistics and the digitalization of trade.

More: https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/news/partnership-agreement-between-leading-hamburg-port-authority-and-tanger-med-port-authority---36985

26/10/2020

The second webinar in the IBJ Webinar series will take place on 28th October and will focus on dry bulk ports and terminals. Once again, IBJ has assembled an influential panel of industry leaders to discuss the major challenges they are currently facing, the lessons that have been learned and possible future trends for bulk ports and terminals.

Axel Mattern, CEO of Port of Hamburg Marketing will be joining the panel and explore a wide range of topics during the 90 minute webinar.

COVID-19: A DRY BULK LEADERS PERSPECTIVE
Wednesday 28th October at 12.hrs Berlin

Register now ⬇️
http://ow.ly/lTf750C2ly1

📷: HHM / Achim Multhaupt

14/10/2020

On Hamburg’s initiative, the procedure for levying import turnover tax is being changed. This is an import topic for the whole of Germany’s competitiveness as a foreign trade power. The existing ruling on import turnover tax tied up a great deal of liquidity. The tax may subsequently have been refunded later in most cases, yet by comparison with other European ports, the tax represented a temporary disadvantage on importing goods. On the decision by companies on which regions companies they should in future be investing and how logistic chains are to be financially optimized, Germany has now eliminated a crucial disadvantage. The due date for payment of import turnover tax is now being deferred until the 26th of the month after next. This ruling is valid from 1 December 2020.

Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLOHcDhB4g4

30/09/2020

Natalia Kapkaeva, Head of the Port of Hamburg Marketing Representative Office in St. Petersburg, participated in the XV. International Forum on the Development of Transport Corridor Infrastructure / Transtec Forum 2020 on September 15. There she reported on Smart Port Hamburg / Port Community System in the Port of Hamburg.

Around 600 delegates took part in the event, representing 499 companies from 36 regions of Russia. Foreign speakers and delegates from 38 countries worldwide took part in the online discussions.

Read more: https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/news/lively-participation-in-the-xv-international-forum-on-the-development-of-transport-corridor-infrastructure-in-st-petersburg---36944



📷: NEVA International

27/08/2020

Nur noch VIER Tage bis die auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt den Hamburger Hafen anläuft, dem sie ihren Namen verdankt. Die ist das siebte von zwölf 24.000 TEU Schiffen der südkoreanischen Reederei HMM, das 2020 fertiggestellt und am 1. Juli feierlich getauft wurde.

📸: HMM

HMM

21/08/2020

The negative repercussions of the Corona pandemic are also affecting the throughput trend in the Port of Hamburg. First-half seaborne cargo was twelve percent lower at 61.2 million tons and the container throughput was 12.4 percent down at 4.1 million TEU.

Yet it is also important that even so, the port continues to provide cargo-handling and logistics services on a 24/7 basis. Despite difficult economic conditions, a dependable flow of products and raw materials for the population and trade/industry continues.

Continue reading: https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/news/corona-pandemic-reduces-seaborne-cargo-throughput-in-port-of-hamburg---36908

📷: Falcon Crest Air

22/07/2020

When lobsters travel on water

In 2019 around one million tons of fish and fish products were exported and imported via Hamburg as Germanys largest seaport. Under this heading falls a shellfish frequently regarded as a special delicacy: Lobster. With novel INNOPURE technology, the AQUAVIVA containers developed by French shipping group CMA CGM in cooperation with EMYG Environnement et Aquaculture create the right conditions for safe transport of live lobsters in salt water, promising the consumer increased freshness and quality.

To find out how exactly this works, check out the new Port of Hamburg Magazine "Port of Taste." Available as flip page version at:

https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/press/media/brochure/port-of-hamburg-magazine-2-2020---38074

…and of course on our Port of Hamburg App.