HAMBURG/BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN/WILHELMSHAVEN. Hamburg’s senator for economics Michael Westhagemann has recently highlighted a topic that has occupied the North German seaport transport industry for over 20 years: the opportunities and risks of closer cooperation between the leading universal port locations on the Weser and Elbe, now supplemented by the deep-water port on the Jade. “We have to start thinking North German when it comes to the ports, not in terms of state borders,” the senator told the Hamburger Abendblatt in August.
Efficient ports need an efficient rail network
HAMBURG At the “InnoTrans” trade fair in September, the Zentralverband der deutschen Seehafenbetriebe (ZDS) presented a policy paper on rail transport, calling for the expansion and modernisation of the rail network









