Cream of the shipping world celebrates at the Eisbeinessen after another tough year

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This evening marks the closing event of the Hamburg shipping week, when the 66th Eisbeinessen is held at the CCH Congress Centrum and the city becomes the hub of the shipping world for the 5,000 industry professionals and their guests who attend.

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  • Janny Kok

    November 07, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    I’m wondering what it would be like to sit at table with thousands of top brass in the shipping industry. In Rotterdam and Amsterdam we have to make do with maritime dinners that attract hundreds (close to a thousand) attendees. We call these get-togethers ‘gezellig'(pleasant).

    • Gavin van Marle

      November 07, 2014 at 3:11 pm

      Which in German is “gemutlich” and in Danish “gemytlig”. And we have no equivalent in English – which might tell you something about our national character…

  • Ummo Bruns

    November 07, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Luckily the waiters and the butchers were not on strike in Hamburg . Happy Eibeining!

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