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Information Pays > Europe > Allemagne Agency
Details Ernst Glaessel GmbH Click here for a list of all OTAL agency offices Glaessel is one of Germany's most respected shipping agencies with trained and experienced staff to help customers with any need. Due to being part of a larger transport group, Glaessel has established relationships with numerous clients that provide specialist sevices to enable shipment of almost any type of cargo. With dedicated sub agencies thoughout Germany, Glaessel is able to offer customers the benefit of having experienced staff on hand and depots within easy reach. Glaessel is ISO 9002 accredited through Det Norske Vertitas. With the introduction of this quality management system Glaessel is proud to provide a constantly high level of service to all its customers. Hamburg
Port Information Port Infrastructure Germany is OTAL's biggest timber market and receives large volumes of cocoa. On an export basis, Hamburg is one of OTAL's largest ports for loading rolling cargo and cars, as well as supplying complex general cargo parcels requiring specialist handling skills. Location The port of Hamburg has a distance to the open sea round about 100-Km and is accesible on the river Elbe even to the largest ships. An uninterrupted chain of radar stations and buoys along the rive Elbe and the availability of tug and pilot assistance ensure the River is navigable at night and in poor visibility. Hamburg is an international centre for trade, industry and transport. Centrally located at the heart of Europe - the port serves a potential market of more than 400 million people. It is ideally located to meet the logistical requirements of our clients through an outstanding network of land and water connections and stands at the cross-roads between East and West Europe and Scandinavia. Facilities The port of Hamburg offers its customers four container terminals and eight multi purpose terminals that also handle containers. The leading container terminals can deal with future generation ships. That means that they can handle 2500 TEUS or more in less than 24 hours and that the biggest container ships can leave Hamburg again in one day. 84 per cent of Hamburg's cargo are containerised. The quantities of conventional cargo are still of great significance. Conventional cargo refers to boxes and crates, bags, wheeled cargo, heavy goods, neo-bulk and break bulk cargo. Hamburg has specialists terminals for handling automobiles, fruit and vegetables, paper and cardboard, cellulose, fertilizers, sugar, coffee and cocoa in bags. The port is also specialist handling for consigments and machine parts in crates, iron and steel pipes, copper plates, scrap for steelwork and tyres for tractors. OTAL’s terminal operations at Hamburg are handled by Buss Hansa. Facilities at the terminal include a 200,000 m² storage area, 37,000 m² of warehouses along with a special area for groupage and consolidation. OTAL uses sheds 80, 81 and 82. Ro-ro cargoes are handled separately from container and general cargoes. Sheds 80 and 81 are dedicated to container, general and groupage cargoes while shed 82 and its environs is dedicated to rolling cargoes. The movement of cargo is eased by these divisions and thus, in turn, operational efficiencies, turn-around and safety is improved.
Radar Stations The port of Hamburg offers easy access to vessels sailing up the River Elbe due to a chain of radar stations alongside the river from the Lightvessel Elbe 1 to the far corners of the port. These act as an invaluable aid, as it permits ships to sail faster and far more independent of weather conditions. Free Zone Hamburg offers special custom facilities such as free zones or free ports i.e. not being within the EU's customs area. Characterised by unlimited storage periods with no question of imposing any import duties. The economic advantages resulting from this are obvious, particularly for the import trade; no sales tax or VAT is levied within the free port thus capital resources are released, liquidity problems avoided and interest still earned. Only when the goods leave the free zone are such taxes imposed. The free port operates on the basis of minimising bureaucracy and maximising commercial opportunity. Covering an area of 16km² the free port offers container terminals, cargo handling facilities and specialist gear for general cargo, numerous warehouses and the worlds largest contiguous warehouse complex. Contacts
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