Container Terminal Altenwerder

The HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder in Hamburg, Germany currently is one of the most modern container terminals in the world, located in the Altenwerder quarter. It is owned by the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG and Hapag-LLoyd AG shipping lines and lies to the south of Hamburg on the river Elbe.The terminal, opened in 2001, spreads on a surface of 983500m2 and has the capacity of approx. 3 Mill. TEU annually. Right now, 2.4 Millions TEU capacity is used.With 1400m long quay wall of the CTA is enough to load and empty up to four container ships, including larger ships of the next generation. Maximum draught is 16.7m, where the quay wall has a height of 7.5m over NN . With 12 millions M3 sand heaped up, a height difference between dock edge and base of the Elbe river of 24m created.The centric container area with a capacity of 30.000 TEU takes the largest part of the surface with connections for cooltainers. The area is served by 22 pairs of cranes and 53 vehicles. The characteristic of the terminal is the nearly fully automated operational sequence.The way of a container in the CTAThe ship sets on one of the four couch places. One of the 14 two-Katz container bridges takes care of the container. First the crane driver in the main cat transports it on the lax platform of the bridge, where lax worker removes Twistlocks. In the port, the fully automatic handling begins. As soon as one of the 65 AGVs on the land side of the bridge automated themselves, the portal cat reloads the container. The driverless AGV finds its way to the destination conveyed by radio waves and moreover it is being watched by GPS. The pedestrian access to the area of AGV drive is prohibited for security reasons.