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The Online Magazine of HHLA

A start-up for 135 years: HHLA

For 135 years HHLA has carried the genes of a start-up. For when its predecessor was founded on 7 March 1885, the business model was innovative: today's world-famous Hamburg Speicherstadt.

New Silk Tracks between China and Europe

All the way from the Yellow River to the Elbe: Zhengzhou – Hamburg. 10,214 kilometres. 15 days. 44 containers bound for Europe.

The world’s first climate-neutral container terminal

CTA, one of HHLA's Container Terminals in Hamburg, is the world’s first container handling facility to be certified climate-neutral. Primarily it is powered by green electricity, but how do the electrified processes work? 

Drones at the HHLA

Drones are being used more and more frequently in society and the working world. At HHLA too, drones are now carrying out many kinds of tasks. But this is just the beginning.

Start-ups: The sky’s the limit!

More and more start-ups are making Hamburg’s Speicherstadt historical warehouse district their home. HHLA rents them space and wants to benefit from their entrepreneurial spirit.

The leading dancers in the port ballet

They are the ballerinas of the port and perform an elegant logistics ballet on its quays: straddle carriers, the special long-legged vehicles for container handling.

Rise of the machines

Self-driving trucks – for some, they’re the stuff of science fiction, for others, they’re already almost a reality. HHLA has been working with MAN Truck & Bus on a project to introduce driverless vehicles to the Port of Hamburg – a project that will actively shape the goods transport of the future.

Mega-freighters at the Port of Hamburg

Gigantic container ships are an everyday sight on the river Elbe. But what happens in handling at the quayside? And where do all the colourful steel boxes go?

The faces of HHLA

Our employees are the face of HHLA, and they have a lot to say – from the port, from the past, from their day-to-day work or from abroad.