On 19.06.2017 the trainees of LSU Schäberle Logistik & Speditions-Union went to Mannheim to visit the container port of the operating company Contargo AG.
The port in Mannheim offers a total of 8,600 container parking spaces. Of the 180,000 containers handled there every year, approx. 25% are imported and 75% exported. For the actual handling of overseas containers, Contargo AG offers the cleaning, repair and rental of containers. The ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp (ARA ports) on the Rhine are served daily by inland waterway vessels from the port of Mannheim. Following the visit to the port of Mannheim, the student city of Heidelberg was visited.
