Tollerort terminal classified as critical infrastructure

The Tollerort port terminal in Hamburg, in which the Chinese state-owned company Cosco intends to acquire a stake, was apparently classified as critical infrastructure at the beginning of the year. This was reported by Sueddeutsche Zeitung from joint research with NDR and WDR. According to the report, a spokesperson for Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) said that the terminal had been registered in coordination with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as an „operation of a transshipment facility in sea and inland ports with a cargo volume of 3.27 million tons per year“ and thus as critical infrastructure. At Tollerort, the annual throughput exceeds this value, they said. According to the report, the BSI itself did not initially comment on the matter.