>>1746821Never. For one, capacity isn't that great -- it can transport 2800 TEU per day [1], which is equivalent to something like 56 cargo trains.
A double-tracked railway line can accomodate more than two hundred trains per day -- when mixing freight, regional and long distance passenger trains [2].
A dedicated freight line should offer even higher capacity, as all trains have more or less the same speed. All while using more or less the same space on the ground.
Then, the main selling point of the Hyperport is speed. But, realistically, these containers have spent four weeks on a ship from Asia already [3].
It doesn't matter really whether the last part of the trip takes two hours or a day, otherwise one should have considered air freight in the first place.
All this doesn't even consider the biggest obstacle -- building the damn thing.
There is a large railway project called "Y-Trasse" that aims to improve the railway connection of Hamburg Harbour.
The planning phase started in 1992, then the process to get approvals from the authorities started in 1999.
But it is still nowhere near finished, since local politicians and NIMBYs have managed to delay and hinder the project and try to force a compromise solution that doesn't even offer the required capacity [4].
Check the videos about "Alpha E" from [5] for a thorough critique of the compromise solution and some other historical details.
Hyperport would be moot without it's own back country connection network, which is doubtful that it would ever be built when even smaller, yet quite important projects can't get through.
Sorry for having most of the sources in German, I don't think most of it is available in English.
https://www.deepl.com/translator gives good translations.
