News / Carriers drop calls at Hamburg after congestion builds at CTA

Photo: HHLA/Thies Rätzke

Congestion issues continue to plague Hamburg’s flagship automated Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA), due to operator HHLA’s modernisation programme, forcing carriers to drop sailings into Germany’s largest port.

Jan Kolditz, director of IT and terminal development of HHLA, told The Loadstar on the sidelines of the recent World Ports Conference in Hamburg that CTA was replacing its entire fleet of ship-to-shore cranes.

“All 14 are being replaced as they have come to the end of their working lives – they have been operating ...