Largest containership calls Hamburg

Infrastructure Development

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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.” Stefa...

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