STATE-CONTROLLED Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), which operates three container terminals in Germany's principal port of Hamburg has completed the expansion of the rail terminal at its Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA).
Following construction, operations will resume as early as August 1, reports London's Port Technology. The CTA's rail terminal now has nine tracks, instead of the previous seven. The expansion will increase the terminal's capacity by 140,000 TEU to 930,000 TEU per year.
Since 2010, annual container throughput at the CTA rail terminal has increased 20 per cent to 769,000 TEU in 2015.
This means that the CTA's terminal had the highest throughput of any container rail terminal in Germany. Rail's share of total container volume has also continued to grow in recent years.
The German Federal Ministry of Transport expects that transport services of rail freight traffic will increase by 43 per cent by 2030.
"The expansion of the rail terminal will enable us to ensure the efficiency of the state-of-the-art HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder," said Said HHLA director Stefan Behn.
"It means that we are well prepared for a further shift in volume towards rail as a mode of transport. We are thus strengthening Hamburg as a rail port," said Dr Behn.
Said CTA managing director Oliver Dux: "I would like to thank the shunting companies. They did everything to ensure that there were no disruptions to rail operations during the construction period."
LOGISTICS
18 July 2016 - 21:36
Hamburg's big port operator completes rail terminal at Altenwerder box shop
STATE-CONTROLLED Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), which operates three container terminals in Germany's principal port of Hamburg has completed the expansion of the rail terminal at its Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA).
LOGISTICS
18 July 2016 - 21:36
Hamburg's big port operator completes rail terminal at Altenwerder box shop
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