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Germany's biggest port will be hosting this year's Intermodal conference and exhibi-tion. From 2 to 4 December 2008, experts and service providers in the field of inter-modal freight transport will be coming together at Hamburg's Conference and Trade Fair Centre.
Hafen Hamburg Marketing e.V. [Port of Hamburg Marketing, Reg. Soc.] will also be represented. The shared Port of Hamburg stand is no. C48, located in the central exhibition hall A1. The firms sharing the stand will be presenting their products and services in the fields of container commerce and leasing, the construction of special containers, freight transport and the customised manufacture of containers and chassis frames. The companies exhibiting include UES Intermodal AG, CONICAL GmbH, HPA Hamburg Port Authority, POLZUG Intermodal GmbH and TFG Transfracht GmbH & Co. KG.
Germany's biggest all-round port well placed to handle further container growth in intermodal transport
With a volume of seafreight of around 142 million tons and some 10 million contain-ers (or TEUs) handled in 2008, the Port of Hamburg is again expecting to conclude the year with a good overall result. Europe's second biggest container port can point to a containerisation rate in excess of 97 percent. In Hamburg the handling of general cargo is dominated by containers to a more conspicuous degree than in any other North European seaport.
Out of every 100 containers handled at the Port of Hamburg, on average 10 are loaded or unloaded at the port, 15 containers have an origin or destination in the Hamburg economic region, 30 are shipped to neighbouring areas in the Baltic (by feeder transport for the most part) and 45 are carried to the German or European hinterland, the majority by lorry or rail.
In short-distance freight shipments (up to 150 kilometres) the lorry predominates. When longer distances are to be covered, shipments by sea (feeder ship) make up 42 percent, followed by rail with 30 and lorry transport with 28 percent. Besides the shipment of containers, rail is in particular demand for the transport of bulk goods like coal, ore, liquids and grains. But general cargo – like paper, cellulose and steel products – is also frequently carried by rail.
Container train services to and from the Port of Hamburg are noted for their regular schedules, high frequency, safety and reliability. The operating companies now make up more than 50 different service providers, including companies directly involved with the Port of Hamburg's business. Among these are Baltic-Train, boxXpress, Metrans, Polzug, Transfracht International (TFG) and others. Containers that are unloaded at the Port of Hamburg during the weekend can be carried in a quick night hop to reach their destination right at the start of the week. Leaving sea shipments and goods from the Hamburg economic region out of account, something more than 50 percent of shipments to the hinterland is carried by rail.
The nineties saw the start of the first container shipments by inland waterway vessel, making use of the various waterways that link the Port of Hamburg with Northern and Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic. Since then the range of routes offered and the volume of shipments have both steadily expanded, as a result of the upgrading of the inland terminal and the modernising of the fleet of vessels. With 17 scheduled weekly departures, regular container services now connect many inland ports on the Elbe and the Mittelland Canal with Germany's gateway to the world. Transport by inland waterway vessel gets high marks for environmental friendliness, and it is also very reliable. This mode of transport is thought to hold great potential for dealing with the likely growth in the volume of goods handled by the port.
Source: http://www.hafen-hamburg.de/
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