About 3,600 shipbrokers, agents, bankers, lawyers and others celebrated the 70th Eisbeinessen pork knuckle feast in style, with near-neighbour Austria this year’s partner country.

The Hamburg and Bremen Shipbrokers’ Association event — held every year since 1948 on the first Friday in November — saw plenty of schnapps and lager flowing as guests from around the world gathered at the Hamburg Messe.