The HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder was opened in 2002 and in considered one of the most technologically advanced and the most efficient container terminals in the world processing thousands TEUs a month. Most of the container handling operations done on the one square kilometre terminal are automatic where Driverless Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) move containers around the site and software-controlled portal cranes sort them into storage blocks. Part of the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder is the Kombi-Transeuropa Terminal Hamburg (KTH) which is by far the largest rail cargo terminal in Germany build around 7 tracks each 720-metres long.
Address:
HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder GmbH
Am Ballinkai 1
21129 Hamburg
Germany
Available modes of transport: Rail / Inland waterway vessel / Ocean-going ship
No. of quays 4 / 1.400
Max ship length 400 m
Max ship width 52 m
Max depth 16.7 m
Gantry crane 15
Rails 7
Gantry cranes 4
Track length 700 m
Total area 1.000.000 sqm
Reefer connections 2.200