{"id":7211,"date":"2004-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2004\/03\/01\/hamburg-moves-to-head-off-logjam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:31:21","slug":"hamburg-moves-to-head-off-logjam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/hamburg-moves-to-head-off-logjam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg moves to head off logjam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Plymouth, the Brittany Ferries-operated services to Roscoff and Santander posted a 20% increase in ro-ro traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Uldall said investment would include four new big ship berths and another feeder berth. He also promised the expansion of hinterland rail, road and waterway links and the acquisition of more logistics sites. Other major projects, like Elbe deepening would continue and run parallel, he stressed. He said the reason for all this was because container transport was growing much faster than had been expected. Final figures, now in, showed that last year Hamburg handled 6.1mTEUs, 14.2% more than 2002, while overall handling rose by some 9% to 106.3 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>Juergen Sorgenfrei, chairman of the Port of Hamburg Marketing Organisation (HHM) said that in the light of plans just announced by major shipping companies to expand services via Hamburg: &#8220;We can again expect growth of 14% to nearly 7mTEUs in 2004&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics senator Gunnar Uldall has warned that capacities in Hamburg could get &#8221; very tight&#8221; in the light of predictions of container growth and has launched a \u20ac 190m programme up to 2010 to head off a potential logjam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}