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

Container Terminal Altenwerder

EUR 2.3 million for digital test field in Port of Hamburg

German government funding construction of a 5G campus network in Container Terminal Altenwerder
Fiegende Drohne über Wasser mit eingebauter Kamera

Study on acceptance of drones

Need for greater acceptance of innovative drones, as echoed by delegates at Urban Air Hamburg
Unterwasserdrohne beim Einsatz an einem Schiffsrumpf

AI and drones to help inspect ships' hulls

Stein Maritime Consulting to demonstrate potential of diving drones with artificial intelligence
Hafen-Szene: Im Zentrum ein riesiges, von Schleppern gezogenes Containerschiff, links eine Fähre mit Touristen

International boost for Port of Hamburg

HPA relying on co-operation to become sustainable, cyber resilient or maritime use cases 

Drones hold huge potential for Hamburg

Trials of low-cost, manoeuvrable and clean flying robot technology underway across Hamburg

Digi Tank for safe storage goes live in Port of Hamburg

Digital twins to improve safety and environment-friendliness of tank farms - EUR 3 million for project
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