News / Hamburg and Rotterdam lead the way in call for data sharing among ports

Two of Europe’s largest container gateways, Rotterdam and Hamburg, today revealed that they have been involved in ’unprecedented levels of collaboration’.

Joyce Bliek, director of digital business solutions at Rotterdam, told delegates at the TOC Container Supply Chain event in Rotterdam: “In the last couple of months Hamburg and Rotterdam have shared port call data to try to optimise port calls of the shipping lines in the North Europe area.

“We are now at the stage of connecting systems, even though we are two competing ...