Eurogate Hamburg to pull the big boys
The first piles have been driven in a five-year project to modernise the Eurogate Container Terminal in Hamburg and attract big boxships as that group reports record handling. The project, which will last 18 months, includes the renewal of quay walls and flood defences at the Predohlkai Berth 1 and the deepening of the harbour basin to 16 metres for bigger ships.
When it is complete, similar work will be carried out on Berths 2 and 3. All are between 330 and 350 metres long and the work is expected to be completed in 2008.
Eurogate is ploughing €60m into the work this year to attract the larger tonnage which, of course, will also depend on further deepening of the Elbe, from about 2006/2007.
Eurogate, which describes itself as Europe’s leading container terminal logistics group, was created in 1999 by the merger of Hamburg’s Eurokai and the container division of the Bremer Lagerhaus Gesellschaft.
Last year the Hamburg facility handled more than 2mTEUs for the first time ever, an increase of 18.5% over the previous year.
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