STADE. In mid-June, Stade’s port industry celebrated the 50th anniversary of the industrial port on the Elbe river – with Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Transport Olaf Lies and around 100 guests from the maritime sector, industry and politics.

BREMEN. Two new board members were appointed at the BHV – Bremische Hafen- und Logistikvertretung general meeting in June: Stefan Meyer (right, Kuehne+Nagel) and Stefan Schultze (left, Kpt. Wilhelm Schultze).

ROTTERDAM. Plenty of experts were there to represent the Bremen ports at Breakbulk Europe in Rotterdam from 6 to 8 June.

EMDEN. Dieter Janecek, Federal Government Coordinator for Maritime Business and Tourism, kicked off a two-day tour of the different port locations along the North Sea coast in Lower Saxony in late May.

CUXHAVEN. NPorts sent out an invitation to the closing event for the IHATEC project SmartKai in Cuxhaven in late May.

BREMEN. In early May, BLG LOGISTICS celebrated the inauguration of the new XXL logistics plant C3 Bremen together with Mercedes-Benz.

CUXHAVEN. With the Offshore Drone Campus Cuxhaven (ODCC), Fraunhofer
IFAM created, in March, a test and development infrastructure for unmanned aviation systems for offshore use.

BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN. Numerous digitalisation projects (see “Main Topic”) have already been implemented in Bremen’s ports together with players from the port industry.

HUSUM/HAMBURG. In April, the partner agreement for the “WindEnergy Hamburg” and “Husum Wind” trade fairs, which has been in force since 2014, was extended until December 2029.

BREMEN. In the run-up to the local elections in Bremen on 14 May, the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, BHV – Bremische Hafen- und Logistikvertretung, Bremen Freight Forwarders Association, Association of Bremen shipowners, ISH – an initiative of the City of Bremen ports and GVZ Entwicklungsgesellschaft Bremen – presented a catalogue of demands containing ten points.

OLDENBURG/KOPENHAGEN. Seaports of Niedersachsen and Niedersachsen Ports used the “WindEurope” annual event in Copenhagen as a platform to present both onshore and offshore wind energy projects in the Lower Saxony seaports in late April.

BREMEN. In March, the 4th Maritime Research Forum took place at the City University of Applied Sciences (HSB).

WILHELMSHAVEN. Wilhelmshaven With NaturLink, the first food supplier has relocated to Freight Village (GVZ) JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven.

BREMERHAVEN. The immissions from various emission sources of air pollutants in the area of the city of Bremerhaven’s overseas port area do not pose any health risks for the surrounding residential areas.

BREMEN. The “Berufsbildungsstelle Seeschifffahrt” (BBS), a German vocational training institute for maritime shipping, published its 2022 annual report in late April.

BREMEN/BERLIN. In April, the BLG Group started tests with a Volvo FH Electric, an electrically driven tractor unit, for inner-city truck traffic at Falkensee near Berlin.

BREMEN. This year’s “Maritime Research Forum”, which was organised together with the City University of Applied Sciences (HSB) in March, focussed on projects for more sustainability in the future.

BREMEN. In late March, the Bremen Senate gave the go-ahead for the planning of an EnergyPort in Bremerhaven.

MÜNCHEN. “transport logistic”, the international leading trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management, reopened its doors in Munich in May after a four-year break.

BREMEN. On 1 April, Ninette Keller was appointed an authorised officer of Transport Overseas Logistics, thus sending a strong signal in the growth strategy featuring women senior managers.

BREMERHAVEN. Initial works to the Middle Sea Dyke Section began in early May. This is the last section of the sea dyke in Bremerhaven, spanning a stretch of 1.4 kilometres, to be strengthened by building to a height of 8.40 metres above sea level.

EMDEN. The Danish energy company Ørsted opened a project office on the Südkai of the Seaport of Emden in March, in order to coordinate locally the installation works of “Borkum Riffgrund 3” and “Gode Wind 3”.

OLDENBURG. At the annual press conference of the Lower Saxony seaports in late March, Seaports of Niedersachsen, the port marketing company, presented its cargo handling figures for 2022.

WILHELMSHAVEN. Construction of a modern logistics centre in the JadeWeserPort began in April.