Hamburg

:This article is about the city in Germany. For other articles named Hamburg, see Hamburg (disambiguation).

Economy

The most significant economic basis for Hamburg in the past centuries has been (and still is) its harbour (see: Hamburg Harbour), which ranks at #2 in Europe and #9 worldwide with transshipments of 7 million standard container units (TEU) and 115 million tons of goods in 2004. International trade is also the reason for the large number of consulates in the city.

Related Topics:
Hamburg Harbour - TEU - Consulates

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Other important industries are the aerospace company Airbus, which has one of its two assembly plants located there, and media businesses, most notably three of Germany's largest publishing companies, Axel Springer Verlag http://www.axelspringer.de/, Gruner + Jahr http://www.guj.de/ and Heinrich Bauer Verlag http://www.hbv.de/. About one half of Germany's nation-wide newspapers and magazines are produced in Hamburg. There are also a number of music companies (the largest being Warner Music Germany) and Internet businesses (e.g. AOL and Google Germany). Heavy industry includes a steel, an aluminium and Europe's largest copper plant http://www.na-ag.com/, and a number of shipyards like Blohm + Voss http://www.blohmvoss.de/.

Related Topics:
Airbus - Warner Music - AOL - Google

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