The shipping platform

Location: Hamburg is situated on the River Elbe, 65nm from the open sea. General overview: Germany's largest and most important port, with over 320 berths, handling a wide variety of cargoes and especially prominent in container and petroleum movements. The Port of Hamburg has several multi-purpose terminals in operation. These have specialized in cargoes of very different types: project cargo, heavy cargo, out-of-gauge loads, RoRo cargo, metals, forestry products, and citrus fruits – with a suitable handling company for every type of cargo. With the strongest port cranes in the Port of Hamburg, Wallmann & Co., C. Steinweg (Süd-West Terminal) and Rhenus Midgard can handle unit loads of up to just over 400 tons. - Wallmann High-performance universal terminal *Restrictions Any time maneuvering draft at mean Low Tide: 8,80 m in FW Max permitted Arrival draft at mean High Tide: 10,10 m in FW Depth at berth at Mean Low Water: 10,50 m in FW Depth at berth approach at Mean Low Water: 9,70 in FW *Technical equipment Quay-side : 600 m length of quay, 3 seagoing vessels berths Railroad line : 1.800 m *Crane equipment 2 LHM 600 Liebherr mobile harbour crane with 208 t lifting capacity, in combined twin-operation more than 400 t 2 LHM 500 Liebherr mobile harbour cranes, each with 140 t lifting capacity *Fleet more than 40 forklift trucks/Container Reach-Stacker, lifting capacity up to 50 t 80 terminal trailers up to 150 t 4 towing vehicles - C. Steinweg The business concentrates on stowage and warehousing of conventional general cargo. The terminal has an ISPS certified stock exchange warehouse where it, for example, stores metal, coffee, cocoa, paper and project cargo. C.Steinweg also loads and unloads rail cargo from/to China as it is directly connected to the Hamburg Port Railway. *Restrictions: Any time maneuvering draft at mean Low Tide: 8,60 m in FW Max permitted Arrival draft at mean High Tide: 12,20 m in FW Depth at berth at Mean Low Water: 10,90 m in FW Depth at berth approach at Mean Low Water: 9,50 in FW Also extensive transshipment facilities, including the container block train system and the Elbe Lateral Canal which links Hamburg to Magdeburg, Aken, Riesa, Dresden, Decin and Prague, as well as Brunswick and Hanover. Traffic figures: Approx 121,200,000t of cargo, 8,000,000TEU, 112,200 passengers and 23,800 vessels handled annually. Load line zone: North Atlantic Winter Seasonal Zone II, Winter Nov 1 to Mar 31, Summer Apr 1 to Oct 31. Max size: Max draught on HW 15.1m FW (inbound) 13.8m FW (outbound), 12.8m FW at all times. Bulk carriers up to 300,000DWT partly laden with approx 135,000t of cargo. Largest vessels handled: "Lagena", Blohm and Voss Dock Elbe 17, LOA 352m, beam 55.4m. "Peene Ore" LOA 332m and beam 58m. "Queen Mary 2" LOA 345m, beam 41m, draught 10.3m. "CSCL Star" (container), LOA 366m, beam 51.2m, max loaded draught 15.5m, 14,000TEU.