Today’s oceans contain an estimated 26-66 million tons of waste that heavily impact both the marine environment and its ecosystem. Rivers are the number one source of marine litter and because of the ever-increasing global production...
The city of Hamburg is pursuing a sustainable improvement of air quality. One major contributor to reaching this goal is the port. The emissions of air pollutants and noise by shipping vessels in close vicinity to...
Since July 2017, the Hamburg Fleet combines the City’s ships under a sole fleet management. This founding provides added value for the City and the port. The fleet contains about 50 ships, mostly harbor ships with...
Cruise Gate Hamburg, a Subsidary under the Hamburg Port Authority Group, has initiated a project called “Secure Truck Parking “. In a cooperation with Bosch, the project aims at optimising the parking capacity in total in...
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) operates the port management for the largest seaport in Germany and is therefore responsible for all planning, construction and operational processes of the port infrastructure. With its “smartPort” philosophy, the HPA...
The future of mobile communication is called 5G. This gigantic network is currently being officially tested in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg by the 5G Mobile Network Architecture (5G-MoNArch) research project funded by the European Commission...
Complaints about noise from seagoing vessels at berth are increasingly becoming an environmental issue. To achieve sustainable port development and operations there is a desire to reduce the problem of noise pollution.