More than a ton of cocaine packed between boxes of medical products: the trial against three men begins a good six months after the largest cocaine find in Bavaria to date. The Aschaffenburg public prosecutor accuses the 23, 26, and 45-year-old accused of drug trafficking on a large scale. Last June they are said to have tried to get the coke out of a container that had been transported from the Dominican Republic to Lower Franconia via the port of...
Status: 12/09/2022 7:42 p.m In the dispute over the silt in the Elbe, representatives from Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein met with the Hamburg Senate in City Hall on Friday. There has apparently been no breakthrough at the so-called silt summit, but talks are to be continued. The state secretaries from Hanover and Kiel sat together with the Hamburg state councilors for longer than expected. According to the Hamburg Senate, the talks were constructive. Possible solutions to the question of where...
Status: 09.12.2022 08:53 The navigable water depth in the Elbe has been reduced since the beginning of December due to huge amounts of silt. This silt and its disposal have been the cause of much controversy for weeks. This afternoon, representatives of the coastal states will meet in Hamburg City Hall for the first silt summit. Since December 1, ships that call at the port of Hamburg are only allowed to do so with a shallower draft. This was decided...
Status: 11/25/2022 3:07 p.m In the dispute over the silt in the Elbe, Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) and the Chamber of Commerce are now calling on the federal government to help. Above all, the staff in the water and shipping administration is to be increased. The joint letter from Mayor Tschentscher and Chamber of Commerce President Norbert Aust, which is available on NDR 90.3, consists of three pages. It is addressed to the Federal Chancellery, Economics Minister Robert Habeck...
There was a time when Italy was addicted to China. That's not long ago. Former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte received China's President Xi Jinping three years ago in the magnificent Renaissance villa Madama in Rome and signed a bilateral agreement on Italy's participation in China's major "New Silk Road" project. Conte's China flirt met with massive resentment in the West in 2019 - no other G-7 country took part in Beijing's initiative.After the mega deal, the Italians also signed a...
FDP Vice Johannes Vogel has been observing China's development for several years. In an interview, he warns against dealing naively with Xi Jinping's demise of power and calls for a "China stress test." source site
A terminal and semiconductors for China, now? Sometimes one has the feeling that politicians and managers live in another world. You should start being more pragmatic.comment by Thomas FrommPort of Hamburg, Dortmund chips, two times China and the question: In which world do some politicians and business leaders actually live? A proportion of the Hamburg port terminal at Tollerort is to go to China, and the chip production facility at the Dortmund-based semiconductor manufacturer Elmos could soon have an owner...
The decision to invest Cosco in a terminal in the port of Hamburg is a stress test for the traffic light coalition in Berlin. The federal cabinet voted on Wednesday to limit the Chinese state-owned company's stake in the operator of a Hamburg port terminal to a maximum of 24.9 percent instead of the agreed 35 percent. However, several ministries made it clear that they did not agree with the content of the decision pushed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).The...
The Federal Cabinet has allowed the Chinese state shipping company Cosco a limited entry into the operating company of a container terminal in the Port of Hamburg. According to information from the news agencies Reuters and dpa from government circles, the cabinet agreed on Wednesday to a so-called partial ban.Instead of taking a 35 percent stake in the Tollerort container terminal of the Hamburg port logistics group HHLA, the federal government now only approves a 24.9 percent stake for the...
Port of Hamburg:Why the port deal with China is so controversialOct 25, 2022 at 4:49 p.mReading time: 4 minsOpen detailed viewThe controversial deal with the Chinese state-owned company Cosco is about a container terminal in the port of Hamburg. (Photo: Daniel Reinhardt/picture alliance/dpa)Chancellor Olaf Scholz pushes through a compromise at the port of Hamburg. Accordingly, Cosco can only take over 24.9 percent of the shares in a container terminal. Critics still think it's dangerous.Of Saskia Aleythe, Hamburg, Claus Hulverscheidt and...
