Container Capacity Drive at Port of Hamburg

The City of Hamburg and the newly founded Hamburg Port Authority published their latest Port Development Plan last year, which forecast a rise of containerised cargo volume to 13m TEU by 2010 from what has proven to be a record setting 8.1m TEU in 2005.

System optimisation will boost capacity at the Port of Hamburgs Container Terminal Altenwerder by some 50% to 3m TEU.

The City of Hamburg and the newly founded Hamburg Port Authority published their latest Port Development Plan last year, which forecast a rise of containerised cargo volume to 13m TEU by 2010 from what has proven to be a record setting 8.1m TEU in 2005.