Commitment to people and society

Multifaceted and outstanding

Commitment to people and society knows no boundaries. HHLA and its employees demonstrate this every day. Examples range from the company’s measures to improve occupational health and safety at various Europe locations to its award-winning sustainability management to numerous smaller initiatives at the head office and the subsidiaries.

Commitment

As a commercial enterprise and employer, HHLA takes its social responsibility seriously at all its locations.

Blood donation Reforestation Port Scouts Charity run

Blood donation

Regular blood donations

With regular blood donation drives, HHLA subsidiary Metrans makes it possible for its employees to donate blood without having to go to the hospital. Instead, transfusion services come to the corresponding company locations. The programme is a complete success. At the Slovakia site alone, 38 employees donated blood during the most recent drive.

Reforestation

Planting trees for the climate

Ready your spades, get set, go! Together with Unifeeder and TFG Transfracht, HHLA actively supported the non-profit tree-planting organisation “Aktion Baum” in Germany. In total, 1,800 of 8,000 donated seedlings were planted by participants in the reforestation campaign. The initiative was started by Hamburg shipping company Hapag-Lloyd.

Port Scouts

School children explore the port

How do bananas from Central America end up in our shopping bags? Port Scouts know the answer. Nearly 1,500 primary school children in Hamburg had the opportunity to become real port experts last year. Each week until the end of June 2022, two Hamburg school classes had a tour of the port museum and Container Terminal Altenwerder, and discovered how exactly the transport of goods and commodities via the port works.

Charity run

Running for a good cause

53 HHLA employees took part in the “Stark für Hamburg” charity run in 2022 for a good cause – and ran an impressive total distance of 521.59 kilometres. The event supports socially disadvantaged children and youth as well as young people with disabilities in Hamburg. Metrans’ 2022 Charity Run also raised funds for a good cause, with proceeds financing physical therapy for a sick girl.

Learning from each other at eye level

Voluntary commitment is essential for social cohesion and for strengthening democratic values and attitudes. For this reason, HHLA has intensified its cooperation with the diaconal service provider Evangelische Stiftung Alsterdorf (ESA) since 2021, which provides assistance, residential and educational services for people with disabilities as well as services for children and young people.

Together for Odessa

HLA takes its responsibility for its employees seriously – no matter where they work for the company. Operations at Container Terminal Odessa (CTO) had to be discontinued at first. While a crisis team coordinated operational measures, a cross-departmental team at the company‘s Hamburg headquarters organised support for HHLA employees in Ukraine and their families.

Beekeeping in the harbour

Bees work at the Container Terminal Altenwerder. Despite the industrial environment, they collect nectar around the church in Altenwerder as well as other nearby sites. A beekeeper monitors the hives with remote surveillance and produced 70 jars of harbour gold honey last year. The bees act as a "bio-filter", cleaning the nectar and producing pollutant-free honey.

More about the terminal bees

Sustainability strategy Balanced Logistics

It is our aspiration to combine ecological, social and economic interests in order to make our company future-proof. We underline this with our "Balanced Logistics" sustainability strategy.