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Rhine fairway improvements

News12 Mar 2017

The Lower Rhine in Germany is to be deepened between Duisburg and Stürzelberg by up to 30cms to improve navigation during low tides. There ...

News22 Jan 2017

Hamburg Port Authority has launched an international competition for future-oriented ideas to redevelop the Steinwerder area in the middle o...

News12 Dec 2016

The question that has been dogging the German ports industry for almost 20 years may be referred back again to the European Court of Justice...

News1 Aug 2016

With Hamburg still awaiting a decision on whether the Elbe will be deepened, this is a very testing time for Germany’s port sector....

News11 Apr 2016

Construction of a 55,000 m2 logistics centre for the German-wide distribution of furniture and furnishings of South Africa-based Steinhoff G...

News7 Dec 2014

Bremen is conducting a Europe-wide tender procedure to find an operator for the future Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven...

News14 May 2014

FRIGO Coldstore has opened another cold chain facility in the Port of Hamburg...

News6 Mar 2014

A new berth is to be built at Germany's Port of Cuxhaven...

News6 Feb 2014

For the first time since 2008 container traffic over the Germany-based terminal operating group's facilities topped 14M TEU...

News18 Nov 2013

North German ports, industry and shipping interests have called for sustained upgrading and operational reliability for the Kiel Canal...

News7 Oct 2013

The Port of Hamburg has opted to postpone key infrastructure projects, including the Westerweiterung ("westward extension") of the Eurogate ...

News1 Aug 2013

The German Baltic port of Wismar has added another Sennebogen mobile crawler type 870M crane to its equipment pool, which already includes s...

News1 Aug 2013

Water depth challenges and the inevitable associated dredging controversies continue to dog Germany’s leading sea ports....

News9 Apr 2013

A Hamburg senator has proposed that the Steinwerder site - originally earmarked for a container terminal and then as a multi-purpose termina...

News29 Jan 2013

The port authority has announced €250M in new infrastructure investments starting in 2013...