Hamburg Cruise Center

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Hamburg Cruise Center stands for the three cruise terminals in Hamburg , which are operated by the terminal operating company Cruise Gate Hamburg GmbH (CGH) as a subsidiary of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA). It manages and allocates the berths at the three terminals:

  • Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity ( Hamburg Cruise Center 1 , CC1 ), opened in 2006, two berths for ships 295 and 330 meters in length and 12 meters in draft , with single occupancy up to 345 meters in length
  • Hamburg Cruise Center Altona ( Hamburg Cruise Center 2 , CC2 , Kreuzfahrtterminal Altona ), opened in June 2011, a berth for ships up to 300 meters in length and 10.5 m in draft
  • Hamburg Cruise Center Steinwerder ( Hamburg Cruise Center 3 , CC3 ), opened on June 9, 2015, for ships up to 330 meters in length and 13 meters in draft

history

The two cruise terminals (HafenCity and Altona) were operated by HCC Hanseatic Cruise Centers GmbH until 2014 . This was a subsidiary of AIDA Cruises in Rostock and the Unikai Lagerei- und Speditionsgesellschaft in Hamburg.

To reorganize the increasingly important cruise business also in Hamburg, the terminal operating company CGH Cruise Gate Hamburg was founded on September 12, 2014 as a joint venture between HPA and Flughafen Hamburg GmbH (FHG). Initially, the HPA held 51% of the shares, the FHG 49%. Sacha Rougier was appointed managing director from February 2015.

After the planning of the new Cruise Center 3 on Steinwerder, its construction and the start-up phase in the second half of 2015, in which the experience of the airport company with regard to terminal operation with baggage and passenger control, FHG transferred its shares in the company to the beginning 2016 to the HPA, so that it is now the sole shareholder of CGH.

In 2019 there were 210 calls at the terminals in the Port of Hamburg by 42 different cruise ships with a total of around 810,000 passengers, in 2018 there were 915,000 passengers with 220 calls, and in 2017 there were 813,000 passengers with 198 calls.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg cruise location . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 5/2009, p. 17
  2. ↑ HPA press release ( memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of December 18, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2016 (pdf)
  3. ↑ Frank Binder: All cruise terminals at the HPA · Port authorities now sole shareholder after leaving the airport . In: Daily port report of February 5, 2016, p. 3
  4. ↑ Hamburg is committed to sustainable development of the cruise . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 12/2019, p. 46
  5. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Shipowners want electricityCruise Gate Hamburg (CGH) presents 2018 balance sheet . In: Daily port report from October 25, 2018, p. 1