Port of Hamburg: Ships back up due to overcrowded warehouses - supply chains disrupted by pandemic and war
Created: 04/27/2022, 19:37
By: Fabian Hartmann
The global supply chains are strained by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
There have been delays at the Port of Hamburg for months - but there are also beneficiaries.
Hamburg – The ships are damming up at the port of Hamburg.
And that no longer has anything to do with Corona.
The war in Ukraine is also disrupting the global supply chains.
The result: the container ships cannot be handled – and have been for months.
In Hamburg alone, ten tankers are said to have been waiting to be cleared this week.
This is reported by the
Handelsblatt
.
Port of Hamburg: Containers back up - Ever Green has left Hamburg
Including the Ever Green – the ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March last year.
In the meantime, however, she is said to have left Hamburg again.
As a port spokesman told the online portal
Business Insider
, more and more ships were being delayed.
This caused the containers to back up.
In the meantime, the port has activated additional areas - but they are less automated and therefore require more staff and technology.
There's also a shortage of staff due to "the vacation and sickness absences of employees," a spokesman for
Business Insider
said .
Full load: Containers on the premises of the Port of Hamburg © Daniel Reinhardt/dpa
However, there are also beneficiaries of the supply chain crisis - and these are the transport companies.
For example, the logistics company Kuehne + Nagel was able to double its sales on the world's oceans in the past quarter compared to the previous year.
The competitor DHL also reported such a leap last year.
And Hapag-Lloyd, Germany's largest container shipping company, will even manage to increase profits tenfold in 2021.
Port of Hamburg: Operations disrupted by Russian sanctions
Industry experts do not believe that the supply chains will ease up again in the foreseeable future.
Hamburg's operations are primarily disrupted by containers that have landed in the port because of the Russian sanctions.
However, the container port in Shanghai is increasingly becoming a problem for the global economy.
Compared to Hamburg, Shanghai is ten times bigger.
And above all: A strict lockdown was imposed on the 25-million-inhabitant metropolis.
The Chinese government has so far found no way out of its rigorous no-Covid policy.
As a result, the central hub of global seafaring is increasingly coming to a standstill.
The ships are waiting in front of Shanghai and also in the hinterland - with worldwide consequences.