Trade
The port of Bremerhaven is the sixteenth-largest container port in the world and the fourth-largest in Europe with 4.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of cargo handled in 2007. In addition, more than 1,350,000 cars are imported or exported every year via Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven imports and exports more cars than any other city in Europe except for Rotterdam, and this traffic is also growing. In 2011 a new panamax-sized lock has been opened, replacing the 1897 Kaiserschleuse, then the largest lock worldwide.
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The river Weser flows by Bremen to the estuary at Bremerhaven (top).
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Overseas port of Bremerhaven.
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The MSC Venezuela docking at Bremerhaven's container port.
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Famous quotes containing the word trade:
“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Every trade has its master.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
—Edward Heath (b. 1916)