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
Hamburg German "eu" (pronounced "oi") for the diphthong (written "öö", "öh" or "ö"), e.g. However, as in most other Low Saxon (Low German) dialects, the long monophthong is pronounced (as in French "peu"), for instance "Kööm" ~ "Kœm" ‘caraway’. The Low Saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, e.g. The Hamborger Veermaster is a famous sea shanty sung in the regional dialect. Hamburg German Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg or Hamburger dialect (), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term "Hamburgisch" is also used for Hamburg "Missingsch", a variety of standard