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Details Ernst Glaessel GmbH 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. OT Africa Line Service Brochure 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.
Port News Tropical Cargo Goes High-Tech at Hamburg
- 10/05/10 The port’s most important improvement for handling fruit is its new O’Swaldkai Terminal, a €35 million, 75-ha facility. A climate-controlled operation, the terminal is monitored by cameras and sensor equipment. The moment anyone enters into the vast air-conditioned hall at the heart of the terminal, the entire system comes to a stop, minimizing the risk of intruders. Each pallet stored in the high-rack shelving and retrieval system carries its own bar code, and each code is matched to a radio frequency identification chip on the pallet. A computer determines the shortest possible route that shelf stackers can take to load and unload. Technology tracks and documents the route of each shipment from the unloading of the vessel to loading onto a refrigerated truck for delivery. Even the process of loading trucks with imported produce has been transformed by technology. Devices known as “ballerinas,” a sort of pallet carousel, speed throughput at the tail end of the process. Thanks to such devices, the terminal can receive up to 650 pallets of imported fruit per hour, and about 350 pallets can be dispatched to customers, including major supermarket chains throughout Central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. The terminal handles some 750,000 tons of imported bananas annually, and another 100,000 tons of other fruit — apples, pears, grapes, pineapples and citrus. Most bananas arrive in Hamburg as noncontainerized cargo, transported on reefer vessels from Ecuador, Colombia and the Caribbean. The same ships carry some reefer containers filled with fruit. The ambitious modernization efforts began 4-years ago, when HHLA’s management board decided its fruit transshipment facilities, which dated mostly from the late 1970s, were outdated. Hamburg was able to accelerate its learning curve by studying similar modern facilities in Antwerp, Europe’s largest fruit transshipment port. Although Hamburg handles about 140 million tons of goods annually, noncontainerized general cargo accounts for only around 3 million tons. [JOC 10/05/10] Sustainable Vision For Hamburg Dock - 17/03/10 Royal Haskoning's winning concept, entitled „Port Evolution?, proposes a CO2 neutral, automated and truck-free container terminal with optimised land use. By adopting the truck-free approach the team were able to minimise the size of the container terminal to about 4/5 of the site area leaving space for public access to a wetland park and to other areas accessed by public transport including water taxi. HPA will be taking forward the transformation of the area over the next few months by preparing plans followed by a formal application process. [PS 17/03/10] Draft Limits Hit Hamburg Cargo Volumes -
04/02/10 The number one issue for the port is the deepening of the Elbe. Hamburg is situated some 140 km from the coast and can only be reached via the river Elbe, which allows a maximum draught of 17 m. Ultra-large containerships can only reach the port, when they ride the tide, which usually involves a period of waiting. Total cargo handling at Hamburg in 2009 was down 21% compared to 2008, with some 110m tonnes passing through the port. Box throughput was down even sharper, by 28%, to reach 7m teu. In comparison, Rotterdam saw an 8.1% decline in total 2009 volumes to 387m tonnes while Antwerp reported a 16.7% fall to 157.8m tonnes. Among the four largest northern ports, Hamburg now has a market share of about 24.5% and sits behind Rotterdam with 34.0% and Antwerp with 25.5%, according to figures from Hamburg Hafen Marketing. Both ports increased their share at the expense of Hamburg. The twin ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven kept their share nearly stable at 15.9%. Hamburg has already introduced reduced charges for feeder-bound cargo to regain part of the lost volumes. The dredging of the river Elbe is a political issue as it touches the interests of Hamburg’s neighbouring states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. Dredging could start, at the earliest, at the beginning of 2011 even if the final decision is taken soon. In March, the HPA will publish first results of a market survey on the still-to-be-built terminal Steinwerder. At the moment, it is unclear whether the terminal will become a box handling facility as was initially planned or not. HPA has also commissioned advisory firm McKinsey to evaluate growth potential for the port. The new facility will aim to bring additional cargo to the port of Hamburg, said Axel Gedaschko, the city state’s economics minister. This could be reached via a strategic partner such as a shipping company, a terminal operator or a logistics company, or a combination of the three. [LL 04/02/10] Germany Approves Joint Terminal Venture
- 01/02/10 HHLA & Eurogate Launch Co-Operation
Project - 30/12/09 Hamburg Port To Dissolve Free Zone / 50%
On Dues - 11/12/09 It will also allow
carriers to defer payments by up to one year while pilots skip their planned
fee increase. For the future, the Hamburg Port
Authority intends to introduce a new port costs scheme that depends on the
actual cargo volume handled, instead of on the
size of the ship only. Critics think that the lack of competition between terminal
operators in Hamburg is the real reason
behind the loss of non-captive cargoes. The port has always shied away from
giving other parties, including carrier-controlled stevedores, access to large-scale
box handling beyond the current oligopoly of [private] Eurogate and HHLA [in Germany To Expand Hinterland Traffic -
09/01/09 The federal government and the German railway will invest €280m in this project. In Hausbruch, a two track expansion project is to improve the port railway’s rail links. The facilities at the Billwerder rail freight station will be expanded at a cost of about €17m. The funding will come from the economic recovery programme launched by the federal government. [MJ 09/12/09] Hamburg Upbeat Despite Handling Downturn
- 19/05/09 German-African Centre Launched In Bonn -
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