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US becomes top trade partner for German seaports

News13 Mar 2024

Amid geopolitical challenges and economic headwinds in 2023, German seaports witnessed a transformative shift in trade dynamics....

Grabe’s sudden departure causes concern in Hamburg

News15 Jul 2020

Hamburg Port Authority is losing an experienced and highly respected executive, Matthias Grabe...

Hamburg – Westhagemann wants more control over port authority

News22 Dec 2018

The 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

News15 Nov 2018

Nokia, ABB and Kalmar, part of Cargotec, have announced that they successfully conducted industrial trials that leverage the low latency cap...

New platform from Dakosy

News1 Jul 2018

Dakosy, 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

News1 Mar 2017

Amidst the disappointments over the Leipzig Court ruling on the Elbe dredging and the local injunction on the Westerweiterung (WorldCargo Ne...

Hamburg launches ChainPORT

News6 Apr 2016

At 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

News18 Aug 2014

The 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

News1 Apr 2014

The Port of Hamburg is to offer “Green Award” incentives to oil tankers, product and chemicals tankers and LNG carriers. Ships with Gree...

CTH expansion deferred again

News1 Mar 2014

Expansion work at Eurogate’s Hamburg container terminal (CTH) was originally supposed to start in 2012, but was postponed due to the finan...

Port of Hamburg set for PRISE

News1 Mar 2014

Following 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 ...

Row over Buss compensation

News1 Dec 2013

Hamburg-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

News9 Jun 2013

The 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

News1 Sep 2011

As 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

News1 Aug 2011

Traffic levels have recovered strongly at Germany’s seaports, but the ports face a number of challenges and opinions on how to tackle them...

Lufthansa chosen for Hamburg rail IT

News1 Oct 2010

Lufthansa Systems has been selected by Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) to install a new IT system to manage the port’s internal railway syste...

US becomes top trade partner for German seaports

Grabe’s sudden departure causes concern in Hamburg

Hamburg – Westhagemann wants more control over port authority

Nokia, ABB and Kalmar conduct trial with low-latency 5G technology

New platform from Dakosy

Hamburg completes Vorhafen project

Hamburg launches ChainPORT

Hamburg traffic up 6.6% in 1H/14

Hamburg green incentives

CTH expansion deferred again

Port of Hamburg set for PRISE

Row over Buss compensation

Los Angeles' big spend

Hamburg’s big spend

Outlook remains uncertain

Lufthansa chosen for Hamburg rail IT

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Fire from overturned truck carrying lithium-ion batteries shuts down Port of LA, POLB terminals

Tsubaki Kabelschlepp launches new aluminium hole stay system

Mixed results for CSX

Westports launches Westports 2 terminal expansion

People on the Move: Port Houston appoints CEO, Port of LA names Deputy Executive Director, changes at Maersk

US becomes top trade partner for German seaports

Grabe’s sudden departure causes concern in Hamburg

Hamburg – Westhagemann wants more control over port authority

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Fire from overturned truck carrying lithium-ion batteries shuts down Port of LA, POLB terminals

Tsubaki Kabelschlepp launches new aluminium hole stay system

Mixed results for CSX

Westports launches Westports 2 terminal expansion

People on the Move: Port Houston appoints CEO, Port of LA names Deputy Executive Director, changes at Maersk

SAMSA: Smoke onboard Maersk ship, update on pharma material cleanup

USMX calls the ILA to the table

CMA CGM to acquire 48% stake in Santos Brasil

FMC urges industry to follow rules ahead of potential strikes

JAXPORT wins US$ 23m for crane upgrades