Port of Hamburg Port of Hamburg The Port of Hamburg (German: "Hamburger Hafen") is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World" (Tor zur Welt). In terms of TEU throughput, Hamburg is the third-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam and Antwerp) and 15th-largest worldwide. In 2014, 9.73 million TEUs (20-foot standard container equivalents) were handled in Hamburg. The harbour covers an area of 73.99 km² (64.80 km² usable), of which 43.31 km² (34.12 km²) are land areas. The location
Inland dune A previous explanation suggests that the dunes originated from coastal sand in marine terraces that were uplifted, then deflation would have caused this sand to migrate inland. At present the dunes are active but starved of sediment supply. Inland dunes in the Gran Chaco of Bolivia and Paraguay are concentrated at the Andean foothills. Most of these dunes are inactive with some being as old as 33–36 thousand years old. Within Central Europe, therefore, inland dunes exclude the belts of coastal dunes on the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts. Unlike their coastal cousins, inland dunes are aeolian formations of