Port of Hamburg National and international visitors come to experience the festivities. Tugboats perform "ballets", old galleons and new cruise ships are open for tours, and fireworks explode at night. Tour guides on boat tours in the harbour are called he lüchts (Low German for "he is lying") after an often used call of dock workers when they overheard the stories told to tourists. 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
German frigate Hamburg March and 3 June 2013 "Hamburg" deployed with the carrier combat group, and was tasked with co-ordinating all flight movements within a radius of 180 km, including all take-offs and landings on the carrier. "Hamburg" was the first German ship to fully integrate into an American Strike group, and it was the first time in the history of the US Navy that a German frigate was entrusted with the sole protection of an American aircraft carrier. On 11 February 2014 "Hamburg" deployed from Wilhelmshaven with the frigates "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" and "Augsburg", the corvette "Oldenburg " and the storeship "Frankfurt am Main"