Cre­ative ideas for the fu­ture of the mid­dle port – HPA com­pletes ideas com­pe­ti­tion for Stein­werder-Süd

Ham­burg, 13 July 2017 – Whether lo­gis­tics, in­dus­try, ex­pe­ri­ence or fu­ture tech­nol­ogy: in the past few months, com­pa­nies and re­search in­dus­tries par­tic­i­pated in an in­ter­na­tional ideas com­pe­ti­tion by the Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity (HPA) and of­fered var­i­ous ideas for a fu­ture-ori­ented use of the port area Stein­werder-Süd. The idea to de­velop a com­bi­na­tion of an e-lo­gis­tics hub and an au­to­mated con­tainer ter­mi­nal in the cen­tral area of the Port of Ham­burg best met the ex­ten­sive com­pe­ti­tion cri­te­ria, which fo­cused on the fea­si­bil­ity as well as the fi­nanc­ing ap­proach, the cre­ation of per­ma­nent jobs and the de­vel­op­ment of the over­all area Stein­werder. The var­i­ous sug­ges­tions from the con­cepts will now be in­te­grated into the fu­ture de­vel­op­ment of the mid­dle port. This does not nec­es­sar­ily mean that the awarded plans have to be im­ple­mented as pre­sented in the end. The con­cepts are ideas for the fu­ture of Stein­werder-Süd, which are now part of a trans­par­ent and non-dis­crim­i­na­tory pro­ce­dure. In the end, the re­spon­si­ble Min­istry for Eco­nom­ics, Traf­fic and In­no­va­tion will make the de­ci­sion on these cru­cial next steps. The ob­jec­tive is to se­cure and strengthen the com­pet­i­tive po­si­tion of the Port of Ham­burg in the long run.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from all pos­si­ble areas were able to par­tic­i­pate. The 42 hectare-sized area of­fers po­ten­tial for up to 1,100 me­tres of quay wall with three berths for large ves­sels as well as the pro­duc­tion of ter­mi­nal space at Oder­hafen and new water areas as ma­noeu­vring space. In total, twelve con­tri­bu­tions were made, of which eight ful­filled the par­tic­i­pa­tion re­quire­ments and were eval­u­ated by an in­de­pen­dent jury.

„I want to sin­cerely thank all par­tic­i­pants for their con­tri­bu­tions. You have sub­mit­ted a broad spec­trum of cre­ative ideas on how the Port of Ham­burg can grow in a fu­ture-ori­ented way,” says Jens Meier, CEO Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity. The pro­pos­als range from e-mo­bil­ity pro­jects to a multi-user ter­mi­nal and a 3D print­ing fac­tory. “The va­ri­ety of ideas proves that the area in Stein­werder-Süd of­fers a lot of po­ten­tial for the fu­ture de­vel­op­ment of the Port of Ham­burg,” says Meier.

Au­to­mated con­tainer ter­mi­nal with lo­gis­tics park

The first place was awarded to the con­tri­bu­tion of ZPMC Ger­many GmbH/CCCC (China Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­struc­tion Com­pany Ltd.). Based on the “One Belt – One Road” ini­tia­tive for the de­vel­op­ment of the in­ter­con­ti­nen­tal in­fra­struc­ture net­work be­tween Eu­rope and China, the draft rec­om­mends to build a com­bi­na­tion of an e-lo­gis­tics hub and an au­to­mated con­tainer ter­mi­nal in Stein­werder-Süd. An au­to­mated con­tainer ter­mi­nal, a lo­gis­tics park with in­te­grated e-hub and smart, au­to­mated ware­house fa­cil­i­ties are com­po­nents of the con­cept sketch.

Short Sea Ter­mi­nal with Cool Chain Stor­age

The sec­ond place went to the con­cept of the Ham­burg-based com­pany C. Stein­weg (Süd-West Ter­mi­nal) GmbH & Co.​KG in co­op­er­a­tion with Rot­ter­dam Short Sea Ter­mi­nals B.V. The par­tic­i­pants sug­gest the cre­ation of a Ham­burg Short Sea Ter­mi­nal as main use of the area. This would be com­pa­ra­ble with an al­ready suc­cess­ful ter­mi­nal of the Stein­weg Group in Rot­ter­dam. Ac­cord­ing to the con­cept sketch, the plant could have a ca­pac­ity of 400,000 con­tain­ers (720,000 TEU) and help avoid many truck jour­neys within Eu­rope. An ad­di­tional use of the land-based area could be a cool chain stor­age and pro­duc­tion hall.

Shared use of infra and su­per­struc­ture

The jury gave an in­no­va­tion award to the con­tri­bu­tion of the Ham­burg-based work­group “Lager­hal­ter und Quartier­sleute GbR’. The land use con­cept is called ‘Clus­ter of Com­modi­ties’. The ob­jec­tive is to bun­dle Ham­burg’s food and lux­ury food lo­gis­tics with the shared use of the infra and su­per­struc­ture. Among other things, quay fa­cil­i­ties should be used by a newly founded joint ven­ture. In ad­di­tion, pro­duc­tion sites and cold stor­age fa­cil­i­ties should be built. An­other part of the con­cept is the re­lo­ca­tion of the whole­sale mar­ket to Stein­werder. Touris­tic use is also con­sid­ered.

Other con­tri­bu­tion fo­cused, for ex­am­ple, on an op­er­at­ing con­cept for im­proved util­i­sa­tion of the quay walls through var­i­ous users, on in­dus­trial pro­duc­tion of bridges based on 3D print­ing as well as the pro­duc­tion of elec­tric mo­tors.

Mem­bers of the ideas com­pe­ti­tion jury were Dr Torsten Sevecke (Head of De­part­ment, In­no­va­tion and Struc­tural Pol­icy, Mid-Sized Sec­tor, Port; Min­istry for Eco­nom­ics, Traf­fic and In­no­va­tion), Prof Dr Gesa Ziemer (Pro­fes­sor for Cul­tural The­ory and Vice Pres­i­dent Re­search, HafenCity Uni­ver­sity Ham­burg), Michael West­hage­mann (CEO In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion Ham­burg; CEO Re­gion North­ern Ger­many, Siemens AG), Uta Stam­mer (Di­vi­sional Man­ager Ser­vices / Pro­ject De­vel­op­ment & Area Man­age­ment / Mit­tel­stand­slotsin; HWF Ham­burg Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion mbH) and Ingo Egloff (Ex­ec­u­tive Board, Port of Ham­burg Mar­ket­ing e.V.).