Magazine: HHLA Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG

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The Online Magazine of HHLA

Milestones in Port Logistics (1)

Part 1 of our mini-series shows how technological leaps have multiplied productivity and increased safety. An electric light shines on in the port of Hamburg and the triumphant march of an inconspicuous steel box begins.

Seven levels full of future

The Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services in Hamburg has been developing solutions for the shipping business and port operations for ten years. Artificial intelligence is playing a rapidly growing role, also for HHLA.

The twins of reality

Real objects and processes are increasingly being digitalised. How can such digital twins help us to better understand and shape the world?

Cranes are scaling up

Today, ships are able to accommodate more and more containers. In order to keep idle times as short as possible, container gantry cranes have to grow along with the ships in order to unload these sea-going giants more quickly.

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?

With a farsighted 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.

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.

Inland waterway ships in the Port of Hamburg’s digital network

Hamburg is Germany’s most important seaport and therefore a major transport hub for the European economy. The seamless arrival and departure of ships is partly overseen by the Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center, a joint venture between HHLA and Eurogate.

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.

A start-up since 1885: HHLA

From the beginning, 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.

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.

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?