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Waterways transport turns Hamburg green
19 Sep 2008
The Port of Hamburg is heralding how the transport of goods provided by inland waterway vessels in service there has made a significant contribution to climate protection in the first half of 2008.
Inland waterways vessels carried some 6m tons of goods from the Port of Hamburg during he first half of this year.
Over this period, the most environmentally friendly carrier for port to hinterland operations at Germany's biggest seaport carried a total of 6m tons of goods, for the most part consisting of bulk goods like ore, agricultural products, foodstuffs, animal feeds and mineral oils. The volume of transport rose by 6.5% in comparison with the same period last year, making for the best result since 1990.
Container transport is particularly important for Hamburg, and 63,800 TEU were carried to or from the port by inland waterway vessel during the period, a 47% increase over last year. Container shipments by inland waterway vessel alone managed to replace some 200 lorry loads per day. Container services put in regularly to the ports of Aken, Brunswick, Brunsbüttel, Cuxhaven, Glückstadt, Haldensleben, Hanover, Magdeburg, Minden and Riesa.
Read the full story in the October issue of Maritime Journal.
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