Project Cargo and Breakbulk - PortofHamburg

PORT OF HAMBURG
Efficient Specialised Terminals for Special Commodities and Breakbulk Cargo
Storage Specialists Meeting Every Need
The Port of Hamburg provides extensive handling and
storage capacity for all kinds of project and breakbulk
cargo. Hamburg is one of the leading ports in Europe,
and the largest in Germany, for the importation of
green coffee, tea, cocoa and spices. And a wide variety
of reefer and deep freeze warehouses are available for
temperature-sensitive goods like vegetables, fruit, meat,
fish and butter.
About 1.2 million tons of green coffee, 252,000 tons of
cocoa, more than 444,000 tons of tea and spices pass
every year through the Port of Hamburg and its specialised
warehouses. Containerisation has changed
transport of these goods, traditionally shipped on conventional
vessels. Most are now shipped in containers.
Most of Hamburg’s commodity warehouse operators
are registered with the London International Futures
Exchange (LIFFE) and with the New York Board of Trade
(NYBOT) as approved warehouse keepers. The International
Cocoa Trading Organization (ICCO) uses Hamburg
as a centre to store its buffer stocks. Specialised Hamburg
warehouse operators, some registered with the
London Metal Exchange, offer services such as cleaning,
customs clearance, processing, sorting, delivery to
final destination and/or production sites. Some of these
companies are: Eichholtz & Cons., NKG Kala Hamburg
GmbH, Schwarze & Cons. GmbH, C. Steinweg (Süd-
West-Terminal) GmbH & Co. KG, Berthold Vollers GmbH,
Werner Bruhns Lagereigesellschaft and Wallmann & Co.
Hamburg also serves as the gateway to Scandinavia,
Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Austria and Switzerland.
Several of the largest and best-known German coffee
companies and six roasting plants are located here.
CTH Coffee Terminal Hamburg (www.coffeeterminal.de)
and NGK Kala Hamburg (www.nkg-kala.com) are among
the largest specialised service companies that provide
large silo and processing facilities in this sector.
Hamburg is one of the main trading centres for tea,
cocoa and spices. 50 to 60 percent of the world trade
in tea passes through the port. In addition, Hamburg is
Germany’s prime seaport for the import of raw cocoa
beans which require special care in handling. The port
is also among the top three in the world for handling
spices and dried fruits. Traditionally, Hamburg’s storage
specialists are known for the high quality and reliability
of their work. Whether it is Quast & Cons. (www.
quast-cons.de) with its modern warehousing for raw
cocoa and dried fruits, the spice specialist Werner
Bruhns Lagereigesellschaft (www.wernerbruhns.de), or
Schwarze & Consort. (www.schwarze-cons.de), which
handles forest products, machine and electrical components,
pyrotechnics and foodstuffs, they all pay special
attention to satisfying their customers every need. Other
companies providing services in this area are Vollers
Hamburg GmbH (www.vollers.com) which offers more
than 135,000 square metres of warehouse space and
8,000 metric tons of silo capacity for green coffee, and
Arnold Koch (www.arnold-koch.de), a specialist for food
and non-food imports. H. D. Cotterell (www.cotterell.de)
has been located in the Port of Hamburg for 120 years
and provides quality control, warehousing, processing
and forwarding of foodstuffs and products like rubber,
for which they provide temperature-controlled storage
and heating chambers. Eichholtz GmbH (www.eichholtz.
info) focuses on oilseeds, legumes and dried fruits, as
well as non-food articles. In 2009 they opened a new
cooling plant for their refrigerated warehouse in the Port
of Hamburg.
Hamburg has a lot to offer in the area of fresh foods, too.
Services are available for handling all kinds of food, be
it meat, fish or fruits. More than 700,000 tons of bananas
are handled yearly at the HHLA Frucht- und Kühl-Zentrum
(FKZ) (www.hhla.de) alone. This terminal sets new
standards for fruit logistics with its new fully automated
climate-controlled warehouse. The new warehouse has
four separately controlled reefer rooms, an automated
rack storage and retrieval system and the newest in RFID
(Radio Frequency Identification) technology.
In Hamburg-Altenwerder, not far from the large container
terminals, Frigo Coldstore Logistics (www.frigo-hamburg.de)
has over 14,000 square metres of warehouse space
for 25,000 pallets in two different temperature zones.
Quite different sorts of specialised services are provided
at the Hamburg Sugar Terminal within the C. Steinweg
(Süd-West) Facility. Equipment is available for handling
containerised sugar as well as for bagged and bulk cargo.
The Vollers company is an expert for green coffee, cocoa,
nuts, seeds and dried fruits and legumes. Non-food
cargo and all kinds of commodities also pass over the
docks here. H. D. Cotterell specialises almost entirely on
soft commodities. Its terminal at Ellerholzdamm handles
spices, legumes and dried fruits, green coffee, cocoa,
tinned foods, latex, rubber, non-hazardous chemicals
and carpets. Euryza Mühle, located on the Peute Canal,
focuses entirely on rice. Up to 400 metric tons of various
kinds of rice are delivered by trucks or barges and processed
there every day.
Hamburg is also optimally equipped to handle dangerous
cargo and other chemical products and the
petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries are major
customers in the Port of Hamburg. Around 16 million
metric tons of all classes of cargo are handled according
to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
(IMDG) in Hamburg every year. Various companies in
the Port of Hamburg provide secure warehouses and
tanks for dangerous cargo that conform to the most
stringent safety standards.
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