Future of Czech lot at Hamburg port unclear after rejection of Olympics

Hamburg’s decision to pull out of a competition to host the Olympics has complicated the future of a dilapidated Czech-owned lot at a port in the city, Czech Radio reported. There had been plans to exchange it for another site in the German city before residents voted against hosting the Olympics in a referendum. The Czech minister of transport, Dan Ťok, said Prague would now have to renegotiate the matter with the Hamburg authorities. Czechoslovakia took a 99-year lease on the port in 1929 and the facility was used until 2001, when the Czech operator went bankrupt.

Author: Ian Willoughby