Port of Hamburg Multi-Purpose Terminals ... - Hafen Hamburg

Profile of Hamburg’s Multi-Purpose TerminalsUNIKAI TerminalLocated in the Freeport on O’Swaldkai, UnikaiLagerei und Speditions GMBH (Unikai) handles arange of ro-ro cargoes, including new and secondhandcars, trucks and trailers, as well as stuffed rorotrailers. Ro-Ro and Con-Ro operations are theprincipal activity. In addition the terminal handles arange of forest products. The service is completedby container and heavy lift handling. Unikai offers1,000,000 sqm storage, on the terminal 1 containercrane and 1 mobile crane (104 t). Quay length atUnikai terminal is 800 metres. The ro-ro facilitiesoffer one adjustable ramp and two other ro-roramps. Special services include PDI service for carsand transportation ser vices.WALLMANN & Co.The family owned multi-purpose terminal WALL-MANN is located in the southern part of the port.The terminal has direct rail access and short distanceto the next motorway exit. The service mixtureincludes handling of all kind of conventional andbreakbulk cargoes, stuffing and stripping servicesfor container operators, warehousing, processing,packing services and distribution services. TheWALLMANN terminal offers 60,000 sqm coveredstorage area in 12 warehouses plus a large area foropen storage in the terminal. The terminal providesa quay length of 640 metres. One 140-to-mobilecrane plus four quayside cranes lifting up to 45 tonseach and in combination up to 80 tons are in use toload and unload vessels. A fleet of 50 fork lift trucksand terminal trailers with a capacity of up to 150 toare completing the equipment. WALLMANN is specialisedin the safe packing and handling of projectcargoes of all kind as well as heavy cargoes andproject shipments. Staff is well trained to handle allkind of goods in a professional way.5

CommoditiesFRUIT – fresh logisticsThe Hamburg fruit terminal, operated by HHLAFrucht- und Kühl-Zentrum GmbH, handles nearly1,5 million tons of fruit every year. The main importfruit is bananas from South America. The bananaand fruit terminal is one of the most modern andefficient terminals in Europe. All types of reefer vesselscan be accepted, and four vessels can be operatedat the terminal quay simultaneously. The terminalhas eight elevator systems in operation andseven quay cranes complemented by a containergantry crane to handle reefer containers. The terminalstemperature-controlled warehouse offers morethan 25,000 palette space. Hamburg’s fruit terminalis handling imports going to the German, Scan -dinavian, eastern European market and to Austriaand Switzerland. Special reefer trains connect Ham -burg with inland regions. The nearby areas areserved by reefer trucks. The Baltic Sea region isconnected by feeder vessels.Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Spices,Nuts, Dried Fruit, Tobacco,Paper, Rubber, Steel… –tailormade product servicesHamburg is Germany’s biggest import place forcommodities as green coffee, tea, cocoa andother special commodities. About 1,2 million tons ofgreen coffee, 252,000 tons of cocoa, more than444,000 tons of tea and spices pass every yearthrough the Hamburg port and it’s specialized warehousecompanies. Containerisation changed transportof these traditional conventional goods. Mostof them are shipped in containers today. Most ofHamburg’s commoditiy warehouse operators areregistered with the London International FuturesExchange (LIFFE) and with the New York Board ofTrade (NYBOT) as approved warehouse keepers.The International Cocoa Trading Organization (ICCO)uses Hamburg as a centre to store its buffer stocks.Specialized Hamburg warehouse operators, someare registered with the London Metal Exchange,offer services as cleaning, customs clearance, processing,sorting, delivery to final destination / production.Some of these companies are: Eichholtz& Cons., NKG Kala Hamburg GmbH, Schwarze &Cons. GmbH, C. Stein weg (Süd-West-Terminal)GmbH & Co. KG, Bert hold Vollers GmbH, WernerBruhns Lage rei ge sell schaft und Wallmann & Co.EXPORT PACKING SERVICES – for a safe journeyAll Hamburg’s seaport packing companies offerexcellent facilities for intermediate storage, professionaltransportation and packing services, EDIservices, ISO certification and membership withother German packing standard guidelines andassociations.Two names out of a number of companies: Securi -tas Export Packers – the company is accredited toISO9002 and for heavy lift packing. Another com -pany is SWOP-Seaworthy Packing GmbH.6

Hamburg Freeport & Customs ProceduresMULTI-PURPOSE TERMINALSOperator Terminal Quay Terminal Number Warehouse Total DepthLength Area Quayside Cranes Capacity AlongsideBUSS HANSA Buss Hansa 840 m 30 ha 2 gantries 37,000 m 2 80,000 TEU 12.5 mTERMINAL GMBH Terminal 8 x 25-45 to cranes2 mobile cranesHHLA Fruit Centre 530 m 17 ha 1 gantry 60,000 m 2 1,000,000 t 11 mFRUCHT- UND3 mobile cransKÜHLZENTRUM4 carton elevatorsUNIKAI LAGEREI Multi-purpose 800 m 30 ha 1 container crane 1,000,000 m 2 20,000 TEU 11.5 mUND SPEDITIONS- Terminal and mobile cranesTERMINAL MBH O`Swaldkai availableRO-RO-TERMINALRHENUS MIDGARD Rhenus Midgard 500 m 135,000 m 2 2 gantry cranes (16 t) 12,500 m 2 2,5 mio. t 10.8 mRHENUS AG & Co. KG Terminal Harburg (open storage) 1 slewing crane (45 t)RHENUS MIDGARD Rhenus Midgard 400 m 155,000 m 2 2 gantry cranes (30 t) 50,000 m 2 1 ro-ro ramp 11.5 mTerminal Dradenau 1 mobile crane (100 t) 2 mooringsC. STEINWEG Süd-West 1,300 m 24 ha 1 crane (40 t) 70,000 m 2 30,000 TEU up to 13 m(SÜD-WEST Terminal 1 crane (45 t)TERMINAL) 2 cranes (8 t)GMBH & CO. KG 1 mobile crane (140 t)1 hopper for bulk shipmentWALLMANN & CO Wallmann 640 m 13 ha 5 cranes 70,000 m 2 250,000 TEU 13.1 mTerminal1x140 to mobile craneHamburg’s Freeport Area offers manufacturersand distributors one of the most liberal tax en -vironments in Europe. The Freeport is part of theGerman Federal Republic, and it belongs to theCustoms territory of the European Union. But,under the European Community Customs Code,third party goods entering the Freeport are treatedas not yet having entered the Customs territory ofthe Community.Goods entering the Freeport do not therefore needCustoms clearance, and they can be stored in theFreeport without attracting excise duty or othertaxes. Taxes are only levied if the goods leave theFreeport area for import into Germany/EU – Goodsin transit to countries other than Germany are onlyliable for import duties when they enter their countryof destination. Goods can be held in the Freeportfor an unlimited period of time. Another advantageof the Freeport is that no VAT is levied on processingoperations or transactions within the Freeportarea. This has led many companies to set up processingoperations, particularly for high-value commoditiessuch as coffee, tea, paper, cocoa, nuts andspices, within the Freeport.To avoid customs clearance problems in the relevantaccession state, forwarders can use a socalledfiscal representative commissioned by theconsignee (importer) to carry out EU customs clearancequickly and smoothly at Hamburg as the portof entry.Once goods arriving by sea have been cleared forthe EU in Hamburg, e.g. by a clearing agent, theyare then transported to the destination countryfrom Hamburg as an intra-community delivery. Thebenefit is that customs clearance is no longer necessary at the final destination. Only VAT appli cablein the respective country has to be paid and, in additionto saving time, this procedure also saves costsin that no T 1 dispatch document is required fromthe port of entry to the destination country.Goods imported into Germany from non-EU countriesare in general liable to import duties (Customsduty, import turnover tax and excise duties), whichare levied at a rate set by the Customs tariff orexcise duty laws. Certain imports (for example, agriculturalproducts) are exempt from duties in somecircumstances, as are some goods imported fromdeveloping countries.All cargo entering or leaving Hamburg may be subjectto inspection by German Customs, not only tokeep a check on false Customs declarations, butalso to control the import and export of illegal itemssuch as drugs and armaments. To speed up inspectionof containerised cargoes, the German FederalCustoms Administration has installed a HI-COSCAN system at the main Customs office near theFreeport at Waltershof, which uses X-ray technologyto examine the contents of containers enteringand leaving the port. Average inspection time takesjust 20 minutes, and containers are only subjectedto manual searching if the X-ray examination showssuspicious items not readily identifiable on the manifest.7

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