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.

BREMEN. The annual conference of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) entitled “European ports as partners in the race towards a net-zero future” took place in Bremen in early June.

BREMERHAVEN. The first construction phase of the new Columbus Quay was completed in late March.

BREMEN/UNTERWELLENBORN. On 27 April, participants of “Logistics Talk” met up in Unterwellenborn, Thuringia.

BREMEN. dbh Logistics IT will be celebrating its 50th anniversary at the
end of this year.

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.