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IN OCTOBER 2020, Spanish hydrocarbon storage company Tradebe Port Services, a division of the Tradebe group, bought TWG Tanklager Wilhelmsburg, a chemicals storage provider in the Seaport of Hamburg, Germany, from BDH Biodiesel Hamburg.
The TWG site comprises 14 storage tanks with a capacity to store 34,500 m3 of class B hydrocarbons, chemicals and speciality chemical products, with tank sizes from 500-6,000 m3. Its jetty, which has a 9 m draught, can accommodate seagoing vessels up to 230 m in length, and it is wellconnected to road and rail networks. The now renamed Tradebe Hamburg is Tradebe Port Services’ second terminal.
Its first, in Barcelona, has a total capacity of 453,000 m3 in 29 tanks, ranging in size from 5,000-24,000 m3.
Tank Storage Magazine was keen to find out why Tradebe Port Services had invested in a second terminal, and its plans for the facility, and spoke to Maikel van Nijnatten, the commercial and business development director of Tradebe.
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‘Located in Hamburg, the third largest port in Europe, the opportunity to acquire the TWG (now renamed Tradebe Hamburg) facility formed a perfect fit with our core competencies and our strategic plan to increase our footprint in North West Europe,’ says van Nijnatten. The company has further plans for its new terminal.