#PORTread 📖 A visit to H.D. Cotterell GmbH & Co. KG at the Port of Hamburg shows once again how diverse our all-purpose port is and how far-reaching the expertise of individual companies needs to be when it comes to handling a wide variety of sensitive goods: The family enterprise managed by the fifth generation of owners has been operating at the Port of Hamburg for more than 130 years and has always specialised in the handling and storage of #cacao, #spices and #nuts.
“Cacao handling accounts for most of our business,” explains Rainer Fabian, who has been managing director at H.D. Cotterell since October 2023 and has worked at the all-purpose Port of Hamburg for 30 years.
Most of the #cacao deliveries arrive as #bulk goods – in other words, loose in containers by seafaring vessel at the container terminals or at Unikai, where the company manages around 20,000 square metres of hall space directly at the quay wall. Ships laden with bulk cacao also arrive here, carrying up to 15,000 tonnes of the good. The specialists for port logistics – once known as quarter-men and women – unload the cocoa beans using conveyor belts and wheel loaders, and deposit them in a large hall in heaps up to twelve metres high.
💡 In the latest issue of our Port of Hamburg #Magazine learn more about this special cargo handling, and also discover how companies such as H.D. Cotterell GmbH & Co. KG already implement #greenenergy in their daily business: https://lnkd.in/dVUR5PUe
📷 HHM/ Nicole De Jong
#portofhamburg #hafenhamburg
National Development Director
3 WochenWar ein sehr informativer Austausch. Wuerde gerne bei meinem naechsten Besuch in Hamburg bei Ihnen vorbeischauen Port of Hamburg. Wie wir es in Hamburg sagen "kieck mol wedder in". 🌎⚓️