A DAY IN THE LIFE OF FLOTTE HAMBURG

A day in the life of Flotte Ham­burg

A typ­i­cal day at Flotte Ham­burg be­gins with the de­ploy­ment of the var­i­ous ships that are re­quired for hy­dro­graphic sur­vey­ing, in­spec­tion, and main­te­nance. Our pilot boats work 24/7 to trans­port pi­lots to and from seago­ing ves­sels. The grab dredger and its team of tug­boats and barges works two shifts per day.

Our ships can be seen around the clock at any lo­ca­tion through­out the port. From its river­side lo­ca­tions at Überseebrücke and the Spe­ich­er­stadt ware­house dis­trict the fleet ad­min­is­tra­tion en­sures that every­thing runs smoothly and can be con­tacted by our cus­tomers 24/7. We pro­vide our bare­boat char­ter cus­tomers a great avail­abil­ity of ships with per­son­nel, how­ever, a few cus­tomers, such as the po­lice and the fire de­part­ment have their own per­son­nel on bord. Pro­ject work, aimed at con­tin­u­ing the de­vel­op­ment of the fleet in close co­or­di­na­tion with sup­pli­ers and part­ners, is also on­go­ing.

When­ever there is ice on the river Elbe, all of the clocks at Flotte Ham­burg tick a lit­tle bit faster. In this event we con­cen­trate all of our ca­pac­ity on the ice­breaker ser­vice, which we are also re­spon­si­ble for. An­other seven of our ships can be de­ployed around the clock as ice­break­ers if needed. Even when the river be­gins to freeze, our pilot boats are al­ways in ac­tion, there is a ves­sel on standby for the Har­bour Mas­ter and we con­tinue to sup­port Ham­burg’s water po­lice and fire­fight­ing ser­vice. The other ser­vices that we usu­ally per­form are put on hold while we de­vote our at­ten­tion to keep­ing traf­fic mov­ing on the Elbe.

If you are in­ter­ested in doing an ap­pren­tice­ship to be­come a port skip­per, we would be de­lighted to re­ceive your ap­pli­ca­tion.

Hamburg Fleet

HPA on In­sta­gram

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