Port of Hamburg
Ballin further expanded the fleet in 1900 when he acquired fourteen steamships from A. C. de Freitas &amp; Co. In 1901, Ballin built the Emigration Halls (now the Museum "BallinStadt") 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.