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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
and Links
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Buss Hansa Terminal GmbH
AM Travehaven
Breslauerstrasse
Shed 80/81 (Containers, general cargo and groupage)
Shed 82 (Cars and ro-ro)
20457 Hamburg
Germany
Afika-Verein
German business association for German companies with business interests in
African countries. Aim to inform members about Africa and the African markets
and to expand business contacts between Africa and Germany.
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 OTAL Marketing I CMA-CGM Group Company I Last Updated:
23/07/07
Hamburg
20354
Tel: (+4940) 4191330
Fax: (+4940) 354704
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