New Logistics Hub for Hamburg
One of the largest Kuehne + Nagel Group’s largest logistics centres was opened in Hamburg-Obergeorgswerder yesterday. Great importance was attached to the environmentally-friendly and sustainable architectural design and operations of the facility, demonstrated through extensive green spaces and plants as well as the lighting and heating systems and the use of regenerative energies. A photovoltaic array on a roof space of 4,500 sqm is among the largest in Hamburg. Read more
Weekly Joint Service Line to Asia
The handling of shipments for the Xin Hong Kong at the Eurogate Container Terminal Hamburg (CTH) on 17 July 2009 launched a scheduled weekly container service which connects North Europe to the Far East.
Under this new joint service schedule the Chinese ocean carrier Shipping Container Line (CSCL) and Evergreen Line from Taiwan cooperate on these routes for the first time. The new AEX-1 / CEM uses 4 container boats of CSCL, with a capacity of about 9,600 TEU and four Evergreen units between 7,000 and 8,000 TEU. The carriers CMA CGM, ZIM and IRIS Lines have also booked container positions for the service line.
After its first calling at Hamburg, the XIN HONG KONG called at Rotterdam and Zeebrügge, then entered its home port Hong Kong as well as Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo and Yantian (Shenzhen). The cruising speed of the units used allows a traveling time of 56 days for a roundtrip.
In Hamburg, container traffic with Asia reached a total volume of 5.5 million containers (TEU) in 2008. With 3.1 million TEU the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong) achieved also in 2008 a top position among the ten major trading partners of Hamburg Harbour in container traffic .
(Picture: Hamburg and its new joint service line China Shipping and Evergreen Line / photo: Hamburg Harbour)
Europe needs to know China better
“The Hamburg summit: China meets Europe” is running until tonight in Hamburg. Former chancellor Helmut Schmidt said on the first day of the international economic conference: “A lack of knowledge regarding China’s historical achievements is one reason for the lack of respect paid by the West to China.” European readers of newspapers, TV watchers and Internet bloggers were able to understand and assess the huge progress made by China during the past thirty years only if they knew about Chinese history. Schmidt called on both sides, not to look down upon each other, but instead to learn from each other: “There were times, when the Chinese were ahead of the Europeans, and there were times, when the Europeans had an advance – evidently, the intelligence quotient seems to be equally spread on both parts of the earth.” Read more
