HHLA subsidiary CTD Container-Transport-Dienst, which carries out a large proportion of the container transfers between the different terminals and depots at the Port of Hamburg, sees the waterways an important alternative for the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cTransporting containers on inland water vessels is not only a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly solution but we also manage and assume custody of the containers on the customer\u2019s behalf. If they wish, we can even put the containers on a train to take them out to the hinterland,\u201d said Ralph Frankenstein, CTD\u2019s managing director.<\/p>\n
He added that CTD, together with its partner, the Deutsche Binnenreederei (DBR), is actively seeking out containers that are suitable for barge transport, including very heavy, 20-foot containers and multiple containers that need to be taken on similar routes.<\/p>\n
DBR uses inland water vessels which don\u2019t have any of their own propulsion. They are loaded at the quayside and then they are picked up by a pushed barge to be transported together as a fleet.<\/p>\n
Although the majority of transfers are still carried out by trucks, in May 2017, CTD transported 1,058 of its 14,469 containers using these vessels. This amounts to 7.2%, a record high for the company.<\/p>\n
Of all of the transfers it completed in the first half of 2017, an average of 6.4% utilised inland vessels, 4% higher than in the first half of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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