By the 1st of January 2013 Hamburg's free port will no longer be a free one. the custom free zone will be cancelled because most of the wares that had been passing through here originated from european countries anyway. Inside the european union there are no custom duties.
this fence marks a border of the freeport. it is located in hamburg-wilhelmsburg (harburger chausse / spreehafen) and even though people are allowed to walk to pass the fence and walk on the dyke along the water the fence has remained. someone painted scissors and a white line all along the fence expressing people's wishes for it to be taken down.
hamburg's port is also the the 2nd biggest container port in europe after rotterdam and the 8th biggest in the world (2010). so no need to wonder why hamburg is so rich. but what about the debts? almost 30 billion euros! i will look into that later on...
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