Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is expanding the rail terminal at its Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in response to the ever-growing number of rail containers. The CTA’s rail terminal will have nine tracks in future, instead of the current seven. The expansion will increase the terminal’s capacity by 140,000 to 930,000 standard containers (TEU). Construction is expected to last for six month.
“The expansion of the rail terminal will enable us to ensure the efficiency of the state-of-the-art HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder. Once construction work has been completed, we will have two more tracks available, thereby allowing us to provide our customers with an even more attractive service,” Stefan Behn, Executive Board member of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, said.
“When planning the reconstruction work, we paid particularly close attention to keeping the inevitable restrictions to handling to a minimum. In both stages of the expansion, we will have four tracks available. The six months planned for the construction work is ambitious, but we are nonetheless continually reviewing further possibilities for optimisation, in order to further shorten the construction period,” Oliver Dux, Managing Director of the Container Terminal Altenwerder, said.
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