News / Port of Hamburg and Unifeeder find cleaner alternative to polluting truck shunts

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An initiative by the port of Hamburg, in partnership with Unifeeder, will see feeder vessels used to transfer containers between the German port’s container hubs from next month.

The Danish feeder operator has worked with local software companies to “establish a proven framework for the integration into the port community systems of digital processes and customs modules for inter-berth transfers”.

And the port’s marketing division added: “The projected benefits include providing relief to port infrastructure by reducing the number of truck journeys ...