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

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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 dredging,” complained Ingo Egloff, chief executive of the port’s marketing executive board.

Mr Egloff said that, with 507 calls in 2014, there had been a 24% year-on-year increase in ULCVs with slot capacities in excess of ...