Tag: Port of Hamburg

After 198 days of construction, has been opened on Kronprinzkai to Steinwerder on 9 June 2015, the third cruise terminal

World Ports Conference in Hamburg - The digital future of the harbor

EU will invest in a study on introducing an intelligent traffic management system in the port of Hamburg

With growth of 4.8 percent, the Port of Hamburg achieved its best-ever result in 2014.

With the CSCL GLOBE, from 13-15 January the Port of Hamburg will for the first time be handling a 19,100-TEU vessel

In the coming year, the HUMMEL (bumblebee) LNG Hybrid Barge will enable Becker Marine Systems to supply low-emission power to cruise ships lying at port in Hamburg. The first container with LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) fuel has now arrived in the Hanseatic City. As part of the LNG Hybrid Barge’s testing programme, the first gas container for the marine fuel as delivered on Monday. “The testing of the gas engines at the Port of Hamburg is a first for both the classification society and participating authorities”, said Dirk Lehmann and Henning Kuhlmann, both Managing Directors of the global market leader for high-performance rudders. The gas container from Shell Ganor, represented by Mr. Aksel Skjervheim, Marine LNG Business Development Manager, was formally delivered to Becker Marine Systems at the Blohm + Voss shipyard. The container with the marine fuel had previously made the journey from the Fluxys LNG Terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium to Hamburg. The barge works like a floating power plant and uses low-emission LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) to supply environmentally-friendly energy to cruise ships. Compared to conventional marine diesel with 0.1% sulphur content, sulphur dioxides and soot are no longer emitted. Emissions of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide are ...

With total throughput of around 110 million tons, the Port of Hamburg set a new record in the first nine months of 2014

Efficient coordination of mega-ship calls boosts Port of Hamburg