Baltic Hanseatic Shipping

Timeline

1. 1630Port of Danzig · Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthIn the 1630s Hanseatic merchant ships carried Poland–Lithuanian grain from ports such as Danzig, Riga, and Stockholm south through the Øresund to Dutch and German ports, then redistributed it across Central Europe; Danzig remained the largest grain-export port of the eastern Baltic.
2. 1631Øresund · entrance to the Baltic SeaThe Thirty Years' War in the 1630s cut off German overland grain routes, and Denmark's Øresund transit tolls and blockade policies directly affected the Hanseatic fleets; cities such as Lübeck nonetheless maintained grain shipping through diplomacy and armed escort, supplying starving North German towns.
3. 1635Port of Hamburg · HamburgHanseatic shipping in the 1630s relied mainly on cogs and early fluyts, with ports governed by the Hanseatic Ordinance and local port law regulating berths, tariffs, and warehouses; Hamburg, as a North Sea–Baltic transshipment hub, handled eastbound grain and westbound manufactured goods for redistribution.