News / Hamburg copes with more containers, but struggles with flood of bigger ships

11/02/2015

Despite a near record container throughput last year, the port of Hamburg’s growth is likely to be hobbled by further delays in the courts to the urgently needed widening and deepening of the River Elbe.

“We have already waited far too long for the start of ...

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