Hamburg, Germany
Port · DEHAM · 53.52°, 9.96° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 6,740
About the port
The World Port Index lists Hamburg as a large lake or canal harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 6 m at the cargo pier and 3 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a medium drydock.
Hamburg is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 6,113 port calls at Hamburg from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 509 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 55%, tankers 19% and general cargo ships 19% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 71 million t imported and 53 million t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (535 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (458).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Hamburg, the earliest issued in 2014; the most common types are incidents (1) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Hamburg is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 490 calls, 5.7 million t in, 4.3 million t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- large lake or canal
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- North Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 9 m · cargo pier 6 m · oil terminal 3 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other, tide; not swell
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- degaussing, dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 192 (Enroute) - North Sea
- chart
- 37230
World Port Index entry Hamburg (No. 30780), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Germany's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 46%, exports 52%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.