Annual Port of Hamburg reception in St. Peterburg

Yet another Port of Hamburg reception was held in St. Petersburg on August 19, 2014. The event was hosted by Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM). The annual Port of Hamburg reception brought together over 220 representatives of the port and transport industry in Hamburg and Russia.

Hamburg and St. Petersburg have been partner cities since 1957.

The meeting was attended by Dr. Bernd Egert, Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and Igor Lonsky, first vice-chairman of the St. Petersburg’s city administration’s Committee for External Relations, along with senior executives of the Russian transport and logistics sector. The meeting venue was the ‘Le Vernissage’ panorama restaurant in the Hotel Ambassador.