Comment / CMA CGM and Hamburg port expansion – running out of time?

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Big kudos once more to our friends over at German transport and logistics news outlet DVZ for a fascinating investigation into the expansion project at Eurogate’s Burchardkai container terminal in Hamburg.

What’s that? A sentence about Hamburg’s port that doesn’t include the abbreviations MSC and HHLA?

Well, here’s a new (familiar) one for you: CMA CGM.

This is a story that has been hiding in plain sight, learned by DVZ through its contacts in Hamburg’s senate.

To summarise: way back in 1996, when Hamburg ...