Qingdao Gute Ship Supplies Co., Ltd.

It is understood that the Port of Hamburg, established in 1189, is the traditional and most important material transfer station in the north of Europe and the overseas trade center of the Baltic Sea coastal area. Port of Hamburg boasts four of Germany's most advanced container terminals and three cruise terminals, making it the first port in Germany and the third largest port in Europe, and the 17th container port in the world.



Currently, Port of Hamburg has nearly 300 routes leading to the five continents of the world, and maintains business contacts with more than 1,100 ports around the world. With advanced loading and unloading equipment and high degree of mechanization and automation, the port is known as "Germany's gateway to the world" and "the fastest transshipment port in Europe". Especially in terms of container sea-rail combined transport, the port has complete railway infrastructure construction and high railway transport efficiency.



As the largest integrated port in Germany, the seaborn cargo throughput of Port of Hamburg increased to 136.6 million tons in 2019, up 1.1%. Container throughput was 9.3 million TEU, up 6.1% year on year. China is still the largest trading partner of the Port of Hamburg. In 2019, the total volume of ocean container transportation between Hamburg and China exceeded 3.3 million TEU, far exceeding other destinations in Europe, making Hamburg the largest port worthy of the name of Sino-European trade.



According to a report released by HHLA last month, cargo traffic at its three Hamburg terminals fell 7.2 percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year. The ongoing congestion problems at the port led Maersk Line and Mediterranean Line, two of the world's largest shipping companies, to skip Hamburg's port and redirect container traffic to Bremen port.