Direct Transport from Hamburg

Hamburg: Germany's Gateway to the World

Hamburg is Germany's largest seaport and one of the most important container ports in Europe. A complete foreign-trade economy is clustered around the port: shipping lines, forwarders, customs service providers, warehouses and the long-established trade in coffee, tea and spices. Industrially, the city is shaped by civil aircraft construction with the large Airbus plant in Finkenwerder and other aviation operations, copper and steel processing, the mineral-oil industry, and media and consumer-goods companies. Along the motorways to the south and east, large-scale logistics and distribution centres have emerged that supply northern Germany and Scandinavia.

Typical direct transports to and from Hamburg

• Pre- and on-carriage for sea freight: palletised goods on schedule to packing operations, warehouses and terminals in the port - and import goods straight to the consignee
• Aviation components and spare parts for the aviation location, where undamaged and punctual arrival is decisive
• Retail and consumer goods between Hamburg warehouses and European metropolises
• Scandinavia traffic via the ferry ports and the Jutland route - Hamburg is the natural springboard
• Urgent industrial goods from the metal, machinery and plant engineering of the metropolitan region

Connections: the A1, A7 and the Elbe tunnel

Hamburg is the traffic hub of northern Germany: the A7 crosses the city through the Elbe tunnel and connects Denmark with southern Germany, the A1 leads to Bremen and the Ruhr region as well as to Lübeck and the Vogelfluglinie towards Copenhagen, the A24 to Berlin, the A23 to Schleswig-Holstein and the A25 to the south-eastern districts. The port crossings and the southern orbital motorway connect the terminals directly. Many port operations work with slot bookings and fixed gate times - the calculable arrival of a direct transport is worth hard cash here.

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