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The Online Magazine of HHLA

With a faresighted system to the future

HHLA’s newest technical system is globally unique. HHLA Sky has developed a drone system for the industrial sector that allows operators to simultaneously monitor more than 100 aircraft, even if they have flown hundreds of kilometres beyond their visual line of sight.

The digitalised transport chain

Hamburg is one of the ports with the best and most connected IT networks in the world. Digitalisation enables the efficient handling of 9.3 million containers and more than 8,000 ship calls per year. Which digital locks must an export container pass through before it is shipped?

Designers have to rethink

3D printing opens up many new business opportunities for logistics companies. Maike Grund, head of HHLA's new subsidiary Bionic Production, in an interview about the possibilities and limits of additive manufacturing.

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? 

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.

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.

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.

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?