Port of Hamburg
In 1901, Ballin built the Emigration Halls on the Hamburg island of Veddel to accommodate the many thousands of people from all over Europe who arrived at the Port of Hamburg every week to emigrate to North and South America on his company's ships. The island is now the "BallinStadt" Museum. In 1913, HAPAG owned three of the world's biggest ocean liners; however all were later seized as part of the war reparations.