City on the waterfront: Europe's smartPORT is leading Hamburg into the future

State-of-the-art logistics

With the continued globalisation of goods movements, companies are facing ever-increasing competition and have to keep up with the constantly growing demands of customers. Without state-of-the-art logistics, this would be impossible. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region offers companies optimal conditions: thanks to its favourable geographical location and excellent accessibility by water, road, rail and air, Hamburg is an outstanding logistics hub for global trade and the number one logistics centre in Northern Europe.

At the centre of goods trade

Container am Hamburger Hafen

Hamburg, the cosmopolitan city on the water, is the easternmost port on the North Sea and at the same time the ideal port for stakeholders in Eastern Europe. As a global hub between overseas destinations, Central and Eastern Europe and the entire Baltic region, Hamburg benefits from its central location at the very heart of Europe's logistics flows.

An intelligent system

The port of Hamburg thus plays a key role in supplying the European domestic market of around 500 million consumers. Sustainable efficiency is one of the port of Hamburg's visions for securing the future. As such, "smartPORT logistics" stands for intelligent solutions for the flow of traffic and goods in the port of Hamburg from both an economic and ecological perspective. The focus is on the three areas of infrastructure, traffic and goods flows.

Around 10,000 ship calls per year, 320 berths for seagoing vessels on a total of 43 kilometres of quay walls, four modern container terminals, more than 1,200 goods trains per week, around 50 specialised handling facilities for project shipments and bulk goods as well as around 12,000 logistics companies in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region: these are just some of the factors that make the port of Hamburg one of the most flexible and efficient universal ports in the world.

News on Hamburg's port

Unterzeichnung Strategische Partnerschaft der Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) und der Maritime and Port Authority Singapore (MPA)

HPA and Port of Singapore launch strategic partnership

Letter of intent signed on digitalisation, decarbonisation and cyber security
Hamburgs Erster Bürgermeister Peter Tschentscher, Rolf Strittmatter, Geschäftsführer von Hamburg Invest, Tan Soon Kim, stellvertretender Geschäftsführer von Enterprise Singapore und singapurische Ministerin Grace Fu zeigen Abkommen

Hamburg delegation to Asia reaches bilateral and global agreements

Hamburg Invest and Enterprise Singapore agree on closer co-operation - HPA, ports in Busan and Ulsan to lower emissions - University of Hamburg and Nanyang Technological University to intensify collaboration

HPA and Maersk co-operating on onshore power for container ships

More ships in Port of Hamburg refuelling with renewable energy - expansion of onshore power grid gaining pace
Hafenbeziehungen im Fokus: Gruppenfoto des Latvian-German Port Forums in Riga

Germany and Latvia forge closer ties

Forum in Riga focusing on ports, transport and logistics
SMM Leitmesse

SMM 2024 to showcase future of shipping

Leading maritime trade fair underway from September 3-6, 2024 with conferences and panels on open stages
Containerschiffe im Hamburger Hafen

Port of Hamburg named "Best Global Seaport"

Port wins "Asian Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain Awards" for third time
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