US becomes top trade partner for German seaports
NewsAmid geopolitical challenges and economic headwinds in 2023, German seaports witnessed a transformative shift in trade dynamics....
Grabe’s sudden departure causes concern in Hamburg
NewsHamburg Port Authority is losing an experienced and highly respected executive, Matthias Grabe...
Hamburg – Westhagemann wants more control over port authority
NewsThe Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg’s new senator for the Economy, Shipping and Port Affairs wants to transfer some decision-making pow...
Nokia, ABB and Kalmar conduct trial with low-latency 5G technology
NewsNokia, ABB and Kalmar, part of Cargotec, have announced that they successfully conducted industrial trials that leverage the low latency cap...
New platform from Dakosy
NewsDakosy, the Port of Hamburg’s data communication system, has introduced myboxplace.de as a new platform to succeed Virtual Depot, which ha...
Hamburg completes Vorhafen project
NewsAmidst the disappointments over the Leipzig Court ruling on the Elbe dredging and the local injunction on the Westerweiterung (WorldCargo Ne...
Hamburg launches ChainPORT
NewsAt a press conference in Hamburg this week leaders from the Ports of Los Angeles, Busan, Felixstowe, Antwerp, Singapore, Shenzhen, Hamburg a...
Hamburg traffic up 6.6% in 1H/14
NewsThe port handled 72.6 Mt in the first half, with general cargo traffic accounting for 50.7 Mt, of which almost 50 Mt was containerised...
Hamburg green incentives
NewsThe Port of Hamburg is to offer “Green Award” incentives to oil tankers, product and chemicals tankers and LNG carriers. Ships with Gree...
Port of Hamburg set for PRISE
NewsFollowing a one-year trial, the Port of Hamburg is set to launch its new Port River Information System Elbe (PRISE). The system is a new IT ...
CTH expansion deferred again
NewsExpansion work at Eurogate’s Hamburg container terminal (CTH) was originally supposed to start in 2012, but was postponed due to the finan...
Row over Buss compensation
NewsHamburg-based Buss Group is caught up in a row about a compensation payment made to it in 2009 by Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) in connection...
Los Angeles' big spend
NewsThe Port of Los Angeles has adopted a US$1.1B budget for its 2013-14 fiscal year, including US$380M in capital improvements at its container...
Hamburg’s big spend
NewsAs reported briefly in last month’s issue of WorldCargo News (p29), Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is investing more than €200M in port an...
Outlook remains uncertain
NewsTraffic levels have recovered strongly at Germany’s seaports, but the ports face a number of challenges and opinions on how to tackle them...