Photo: HHM/ Dietmar Hasenpusch

The job to expand as well as strengthen the Elbe River has actually started with the arrival of DEME Group’s receptacle dredger ‘Scheldt River’.

The job contains expanding as well as strengthening the 72-mile lengthy Elbe fairway, causing the port of Hamburg, to permit two-way website traffic of ultra-large containerships without constraints.

“This is very good news for our trading and shipping customers in the German and European hinterland and all our worldwide business partners,” stated Axel Mattern, Joint CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Port of Hamburg Marketing.

Following conclusion of the job, ocean-going ships will certainly be allowed to leave Hamburg with a draft of 13.5 meters, or 14.5 meters relying on trend, which is a whole meter greater than presently permitted. The Port of Hamburg approximates the added draft will certainly permit containerships to deliver around 1,800 even more twenty-foot containers per telephone call.

Belgium- based DEME Group was granted EUR 238 million strengthening agreement back inApril The job will certainly include the dredging, transport as well as moving of about 32 million cubic meters of product from the riverbed.

The Port of Hamburg is the third-busiest container port in Europe, dealing with around 8.7 million TEU in 2018 as well as about 8,000 vessel calls annually.