OLDENBURG. With its third sustainability report issued in March, NPorts demonstrated that the ports of Lower Saxony have attained a healthy position for sustainable development in both the region and federal state state, thanks to a variety of measures to save energy as well as innovation projects and compensating for negative repercussions.

BREMERHAVEN. bremenports has started 2023 with a full order book.

BREMERHAVEN. SAMS is now in use at the Stromkaje in Überseehafen. SAMS stands for “ship mooring measurement system” and is intended to provide digital support for mooring manoeuvres at the Stromkaje terminal.

WILHELMSHAVEN. In January, TX Logistik launched a new hinterland connection between Wilhelmshaven and southern Germany – with one round trip per week between JadeWeserPort and the rail terminals in Nuremberg and Kornwestheim.

BREMEN. As from 1 February, Michael Strudthoff was appointed as a further managing director at Schiffahrts-Kontor Detra. Strudthoff has been working for Detra since December 1991 and became an authorised signatory in September 2015.

OLDENBURG. With approx. 54 million tonnes, around six per cent more goods passed through the quaysides of Lower Saxony’s nine seaports in Brake, Cuxhaven, Emden, Leer, Nordenham, Oldenburg, Papenburg, Stade and Wilhelmshaven in 2022 than in 2021.

OLDENBURG. In late January, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) opened the Institute for Systems Engineering for Future Mobility in Oldenburg.

BREMEN. For the sixth time, ESPO successfully certified the Bremen Ports according to the EcoPorts environmental management standard PERS in February.

WILHELMSHAVEN. Germany’s only deep-water container port, JadeWeserPort, has been a member of the “Power of Logistics” initiative since January.

OSNABRÜCK. At Nosta Logistics, Sven Hornig has taken on additional responsibilities.

BREMEN/MOERDIJK. Following the inauguration of a new chemical and hazardous goods warehouse in Malaysia in January 2022, Leschaco signed a lease with industrial space developer David Hart Beheer (DHG) this January, in order to build a new ADR warehouse in Moerdijk, Netherlands.

BREMEN. The Bremen-based project logistics and heavy cargo expert LS Cargo Logistics strengthened its management team in the first quarter with the appointment of managing directors Thomas Meisner and Holger Hinrichs.

BERLIN. Since January, Dieter Janecek has been the new federal government coordinator for the maritime economy and tourism.

BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN/HAMBURG. Since January, the new joint project “sH2unter@ports” has been addressing the question of how the operation of shunting locomotives in the port can be implemented in a climate-neutral way.

BREMEN. In February, BLG LOGISTICS took over the logistics of supplying the Mercedes-Benz Vans assembly plant in Charleston (USA).

VAREL-DANGAST. In January, the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsche Nordseeküste (SDN), which translates as Association for the Protection of the German North Sea Coast, celebrated its 50th anniversary, and its chairman Gerd-Christian Wagner said: “SDN has now been around for over 50 years. It is concerning that the threat to the North Sea from increasing industrialisation and its effects has not diminished, despite all the specific individual successes.

WILHELMSHAVEN/HAMBURG. To meet the increasing demand for sustainably produced energy as well as the related need for well-engineered logistics concepts for the storage and transport of components, Deugro and Nordfrost combined their strengths in a partnership in January.

ELSFLETH. In January, Dr Georgios Athanassiou was appointed as Professor for Human-Machine Interaction in autonomous ship navigation systems at Jade University of Applied Sciences.

NORDDEICH. Digital solutions are to be used in the future in such a way to control light that ensures safe port operations for goods handling and passenger movements, as well as reducing the impact on the Wadden Sea.

BRAKE. In the presence of Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Construction and Digitalisation, and NPorts Managing Director Holger Banik, the first birth for large ships was inaugurated at the south pier in Brake in February.

BREMERHAVEN. In February, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Maersk Logistics Campus took place in Bremerhaven’s fishing port: a modern and sustainable logistics centre is due to be built on an area of almost 70,000 square metres for the storage of sporting goods and other goods.

BREMEN. Matthias Magnor, COO and member of BLG LOGISTICS board of management (2nd from left), and Dekra Germany CEO Guido Kutschera (2nd from right) agreed on a long-term partnership between their companies in January.

STADE. After the inauguration of Germany’s first LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven on 17 December, the first pile was rammed into the ground in January for the construction of the next LNG jetty in Lower Saxony.

BREMEN. Bahri Logistics recently launched a new liner service with RoRo ships, connecting Asian ports with India and Northern Europe.