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Largest containership calls Hamburg

12/13/2012 10:52:04 AM

The Port of Hamburg said the world's largest containership, the 16,020-TEU CMA CGM Marco Polo, berthed at the HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB).

But Reinhard Peschel, managing director of CMA CGM Deutschland, said "delay in the dredging of the river Elbe makes it more difficult for us to enable dependable handling, because even now we can only sail upriver under restrictions due to very narrow tide windows and the limited draught for ever-larger vessels.”

Stefan Behn, HHLA executive board member for the container segment, said cooperation between the port and authorities on the Elbe river is being intensified in order to optimize the handling of a growing number of ships with a capacity of more than 10,000 TEUs.

The information service Alphaliner said in the current edition of its weekly newsletter that there are 20 service strings currently employing container vessels of more than 10,000 TEUs. A chart in the publication shows that after Rotterdam, Hamburg is the most commonly called port in Europe by those big ships.

The CMA CGM Marco Polo is 396 meters long and 53.6 meters wide and sails in the FAL1 service between the Far East and Northern Europe.
  

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