From the Square Rigged Cargo Ship to Huge Container Vessels, from the Granary Weevil to Insect Diversification

Abstract

The historical development of trade with sea going ships and vessels of the port of Hamburg is described including the present use of huge container vessels. Plenty of partially historical pictures – some over 100 years old – illustrate the context. During the last decades, the amounts of traded goods have dramatically increased and the times of product loading and discharging decreased. In 3300 samples that had been taken in the port for phytosanitary inspection during the past decade from incoming loads of 170 different kinds of plant products 85 coleopteran species were found. Only 35 species were relevant stored product pest.