Hamburg News

09/2010

Wind energy giant acquired Leading medicine technology The south‘s changing faces rocks With Broadwind Energy, HWF Medicine technology from the From Wilhelmsburg‘s new For three nights, 160 bands will successfully relocated the US Metropolitan Area is in centre to ‘s castle island: once again play at 20 bars and market leader for supply chain high demand around the world, Hamburg‘s south is undergoing clubs: in its fifth year, Reeperbahn solutions to Hamburg. (p. 2) three examples show. (p. 2) huge developments (p. 3) Festival is bigger than ever. (p. 4) Newsflash Hamburg‘s autumn is dedicated to China Local patriots: Hamburg‘s CHINA TIME 2010 in September, “Hamburg Summit: China meets Europe“ in November locals have issued their city a good testimony. 91 per Before EXPO 2010 closes its cent of them enjoy living gates in Shanghai, Hamburg in the city. This is the result will celebrate CHINA TIME of a representative citizen from 9 - 25 September for the survey conducted by the third time. At its more than 200 Northern Office of Statistics events, the Middle Kingdom by order of the Hamburg can be experienced at close. Ministry of Finance among Exhibition and concerts, talks, 20,000 Hamburg citzens. seminars and panel discus- The locals‘ love of their sions, readings, theatre and city is also obvious on the Internet. With hundreds cinema, culinary delights and of thousands of fans and a Chinese market at city hall fan groups promoting the square will invite to explore the metropolis in social many faces of China. networks such as Xing, The core theme of EXPO 2010 Facebook, StudiVZ or Die Shanghai “Better City, Better Lokalisten, the Hanseatic Life“ will also play an important sive house: Hamburg House, gather in Hamburg to foster city is a hotspot in the vir- role at CHINA TIME, where ur- already viewed more than an the bilateral dialogue. This tual world. And also in real banisation and green, liveable 200,000 excited EXPO visitors. year‘s participants include, life, Hamburg attracts new cities are also being discussed. Two months after the end of inter alia, the former German citizens. In 2009, 3,709 were With Hamburg being appoin- CHINA TIME 2010, the Ham- chancellors Helmut Schmidt granted German nationa- ted as Europe‘s Green Capital burg Chamber of Commerce and Gerhard Schröder, the lity in Hamburg, thus the Federal Office of Statistics 2011, climate protection is ano- will host once again a high- former French Prime Minister in Wiesbaden. With a plus ther key theme of CHINA TIME, profile economic conference, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Jürgen of 907 persons compared which will present Hamburg‘s which has become the premier Fitschen, member of Deutsche to 2008, naturalisations in new centre of competence su- platform for Sino-European re- Bank‘s Management Board, Hamburg increased, while stainable China with offices lations since its launch in 2004: and Capt. Wei Jiafu, Chief Exe- they declined in all other in Hamburg und Shanghai. the fourth “Hamburg Summit: cutive Officer, COSCO Group. German states. Hamburg‘s contribution to the China meets Europe”. From www.chinatime.hamburg.de www.hamburg.de/buerger- world exhibition in its sister city 24 - 26 November, top-ranking www.expo2010-hamburg.de befragung was China‘s first certified pas- officials and businessmen will www.hamburg-summit.com

Hamburg to be ‘s first to be awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize Prestigious award granted to the FLY Family Literacy Project supporting migrants‘ language acquisition For the first time, the UNESCO for the Family Literacy Project model for enhancing literacy in old first grade school children. will grant the King Sejong Li- (FLY). The prize giving ceremo- immigrant families and promo- Launched in autumn 2004, the teracy Prize to a German insti- ny will take place in Paris on ting integration. The pilot was project was supported by the tution. In 2010, the prestigious 8 September 2010. The jury re- carried out in 33 locations in UNESCO Institute for Lifelong award will be attributed to cognised the intergenerational socially disadvantaged districts Learning in its concept and im- the State Institute for Teacher approach, with parents partici- of Hamburg, and involved the plementation phases. Training and School Develop- pating in and benefiting from parents of five-year-old pre- www.unesco.org/uil ment in Hamburg, Germany their children’s learning, as a school children and six-year- www.li-hamburg.de Hamburg News 09/2010 Page 2

Shortcuts The formula for growth: Hamburg + France = success

New corrosion protection For French companies, Ham- gramme. Airbus invested 30 Furthermore, bilateral busi- Forget paint: a super thin off- burg means success. The Eu- million euros a new A350XWB ness co-operations are to be shore film today offers the ropean aircraft manufacturer fuselage assembly hangar. expanded. Following the exa- most efficient and environ- Airbus has dealt far better than Aurubis AG, the largest copper mple of the aviation industry, mentally friendly protection competitors with the difficult manufacturer in Europe and where co-operation between against corrosion. The innova- economy of the past months present in Hamburg since Hamburg and Toulouse was tive foil was developed by the and has expanded activities 1866, has selected Air Liquide initiated in 2004, life sciences Hamburg shipping specialist at its plant by to be its new long term sup- are now added as a second fo- Orca Maritime, and has alrea- dy been applied on some 100 having increased the final as- plier of oxygen. The French cus. To initiate projects, agents vessels. In co-operation with sembly of A320 family jets company will now construct an of the industry are to meet in the Hamburg University of from 17 to 22 aircraft per additional air separation unit Hamburg in autumn. Cancer Technology and the Hamburg month. In addition, large sec- in Hamburg with a capacity of therapy and nanotechnology Ship Model Basin (HSVA), the tions of A320‘s fuselage are more than 500 tonnes per day are key themes of interest. company today focuses its re- being manufactured at Finken- of gaseous oxygen and liquid www.airbus.com search on the development of werder. Hamburg is also being products. Operations are due www.airliquide.de an anti-fouling foil for hulls. involved in the A350XWB pro- to start in 2011. www.norgenta.de www.orca-maritime.com

Best grades for BNI Hamburg‘s Bernhard Nocht Broadwind Energy opens office in Hamburg Institute for Tropical Medici- Fraunhofer Center and Hamburg Port Authority to optimise port processes ne (BNI) has been recognised Broadwind Energy, Inc., based vices to the wind energy indus- Group, Nordex, Siemens, Ge- by the Senate of the Leibniz Assciation for its “excellent in Naperville, Illinois, has ope- try. These product and service neral Electric (GE) from the scientific performance“ and ned an office in Hamburg and offerings include wind turbine U.S. and Vestas of Denmark the “convincing development named the former senior vice gearing systems, wind turbine are now present with central concept of the institute“. As a president of REpower Systems structural towers, industrial or sales units in the Hamburg Leibniz Institute, BNI is regular- AG Michael Stegelmann ma- products, technical services, Metropolitan Area and benefit ly audited every seven years. naging director of Broadwind precision repair and enginee- from the synergies thanks to In the survey, the association Energy Europe GmbH. The ring services, and logistics. the concentration of related in- recommended to continue Hamburg Business Develop- The acquisition of Broadwind dustries. With their expertise in federal support of BNI as “a ment Association supported Energy illustrates Hamburg‘s aircraft construction and ship- nationally and internationally Broadwind Energy in setting successful international posi- building, Hamburg‘s engineers esteemed centre of compe- up their German subsidiary. tioning in the global renewable are also meeting the demands tence for tropical medicine“. www.bnitm.de The U.S. market leader provi- energy market. Manufacturers of the wind energy industry. des technologically advanced such as Repower Systems, www.bwen.com Funds for innovations high-value products and ser- now part of the Indian Suzlon www.hamburg-economy.de In the past year, the Innovati- on Foundation Hamburg fun- ded 15 projects with a total of Hamburg Metropolitan Area 4.4 million euros. 104 new jobs have thus been created since Manufacturers of medicine technology for the world market the foundation‘s formation in 1997. This year, the procure- Innovative products and ment of the pioneering surgey Individual chemo therapies ment practise has been revi- ground-breaking developments system is being supported ZytoService is one of sed, with funds no longer ha- are not only being achieved by with 1.4 million euros from the Germany‘s leading manufac- ving to be repaid. universities and research fa- European Funds for Regional turers of parenteral nutritio- www.innovationsstiftung.de cilities, but also by small and Development. nal solutions and antibiotic infusions for clinic and home Property market upswing medium-sized enterprises, At Hamburg‘s commercial three specialists of medicine 3,500 surgery instruments use along with cytostatic infu- property market the up- technology from the Hamburg Bauer und Häselbarth-Chirurg sions. They all are being pro- ward trend stabilised. With Metropolitan Area show. GmbH from Ellerau started its duced under sterile conditions a transaction volume of 505 career 131 years ago with the in state-of-the-art clean rooms million euros in the first six Surgery theatre of tomorrow repair of surgical instruments. in ZytoService‘s new plant at months of 2010, sales have As one of the pioneering Today, its high-end medi- Hamburg- inaugurated more than doubled compa- forces in ultrasonic technolo- cal tools are in high demand earlier this year. Comprising red to last year‘s first half gy, Söring has been supplying around the globe, and especial- some 2,500 sqm, the site also 230 million euros. Especial- the international market with ly in the United States. 80 per features a GMP-compliant ly high in demand were of- innovative solutions in ultra- cent of all export are shipped production area where 1,000 fice premises in the city (50 sonic and high-frequency sur- across the Atlantic. The pro- bags with chemo therapy so- per cent), followed by retail gery for over two decades. Its duct portfolio today compri- lutions, custom-tailored to the objects (30 per cent) and properties for the logistics latest invention is a modular ses 3,500 surgical instruments patient‘s need, are being filled industry (10 per cent). surgery system for ultra sonic such as aspirators, specula, di- every day. www.colliers-gb.de and high frequency surgeries. lation bougies and uterine di- www.soering.com Scheduled to be introduced in lators, rectal instruments, and www.bh-chirurg.de clinics by 2012, the develop- tracheal cannulas. www.zytoservice.de Hamburg News 09/2010 Page 3

Leap across the Elbe: Hamburg‘s south chances faces Shortcuts Kick-off for Wilhelmsburg‘s new centre – conversion of Harburg‘s castle island Job creation engine The first house of both the in- first exhibit of the internatio- straße will be relocated to the Online advertising and social ternational garden show (igs) nal building exhibition and will railway tracks further east. networks make the net a job and the international building display tomorrow‘s architec- The second major project in creation engine. 300 vacant exhibition (IBA) is now being ture during the show in 2013. Hamburg‘s south is Harburg positions are currently of- built. The ground-breaking ce- Next to hybrid houses, the castle Island. 30 hectares lar- fered by the digital economy in Hamburg. Google alone remony of the IGS Centre at new Wilhelmsburg centre will ge, the isle will be released has announced to hire 35 new der Neuenfelder Straße also feature other visionary hou- from the port and converted staff. XING offers twelve new marked the start of construc- ses on its four plots, i. e. water into a residential neighbour- jobs mainly to product ma- tion of Wilhelmsburg‘s new houses, smart price houses, hood with 200 flats for rent or nagers and developers. And centre. The four-storey buil- and smart material houses. purchase. The residential use also the world‘s largest social ding is a hybrid house, which In addition, sport facilities in- will be complemented by of- network, Facebook, that re- can either be used as office or cluding a pool, and the future fice and hotel buildings at Veri- cently chose Hamburg as its residential building. During home of the Ministry of Urban taskai. Plans also include quay German headquarters, will re- igs, the passive house will be Development and Environ- promenades and a star-shaped cruit new employees. Further the home of igs‘ headquarters. ment will be erected. To meet park incorporating the existing vacant position are offered by The 5.5 million euro building is the overall target of the pro- castle wing and a new annex the Games sector, desperately being erected by the Hamburg ject, demanding that houses in its centre. Investments of seeking web designers, ani- mation experts, and software construction company Otto and buildings blend in harmo- 43.4 million euros have been programmers. provided for the development Wulff and wph - Wohnbau und niously with the nature of the www.hamburg-media.net Projektentwicklung. new park, the dual carriage- of the Schlossinsel area. The hybrid house is also the way Wilhelmsburger Reichs- www.iba-hamburg.de 275 years of milling In the idyllic valley of the ri- ver Glinder Au in the east of Sustainable construction has long been standard in Hamburg Hamburg lies the mill Stein- Hanseatic city holds top position in BNP Paribas Real Estate‘s ranking beker Mühle, which is owned by the Neubauer family since Sustainablity is standard: No follow next. In the ranking, Mu- and the international Leed- and 1735. This year, Neubauer mill other German city has placed nich came second with 440,000 BREEAM certificates. celebrates its 275th anniversa- as much emphasis on sustai- square metres of green com- Certified sustainable buildings ry. Initially, the mill ground nable construction as Ham- mercial real estate, followed by in the Elbe metropolis inclu- the grain of local farmers as well as ragged clothes for the burg. This was revealed by a Frankfurt with nearly 400,000 de, inter alia, eight properties paper production and lumber survey of BNP Paribas Real square metres. Trailing far be- at , including the to extract colour dyes. Today, Estate. With nearly 500,000 hind is Berlin with just 132,000 headquarters of Unilever and mimica and talca are the main square metres of commercial square metres. Nationwide, a SPIEGEL group and future Ha- products being processed space built or planned sustai- total of 2.6 million square me- fenCity University. Recognised along with cocoa shells milled nably, the Hanseatic city holds tres have been certified as su- as sustainable by DGNB are to granule and flour. the top position in the BNP‘s stainable. Opern Plaza, Hanse Cube, Han- www.micamills.de ranking of green commercial Considered in the BNP ran- se Atrium, the 63° project, and properties in Germany‘s large king are only objects meeting the extension of the Emporio New tourism record cities. The sustainable upgra- the criteria of the quality seals Quartier. May 2010 was the strongest ding of existing properties is to by DGBN, the HafenCity label, www.realestate.bnpparibas.de month ever in overnight stays in Hamburg. Boasting an 11.5 per cent growth to 861,539 overnight stays, Hamburg Hamburg‘s rail cargo volumes back to 2008‘s record figures Tourism enjoyed the best re- HPA invested 64 million euros and supports ERTMS signal system sults of all times. Particularly remarkable is the strong in- In the first six half of 2010, when compared with truck, and command systems will not crease in overnight stays from Hamburg‘s port railway picked feeder and inland barge only link Scandinavia with the abroad with an increase of 27.9 up speed again. Its good transports: out of 7.1 million Alps and the Mediterranean, percent. The highest growth connections into the southern, TEU, roughly 1.6 million TEU but also improve rail came from the source market eastern and south-eastern were carried by rail. To ensure connections to the southeast Spain ( + 92.9 per cent). After European hinterland ensured future growth, the Hamburg of Europe and the Black Sea. months of declininig figures, that in the first six months of Port Authority has invested 64 Improved hinterland cargo also the UK accounted for a this year, rail freight handling million euros in maintaining handling is also the target solid 75.7 per cent growth. volumes were on track to and optimising the facilities of Hamburger Hafen und The impressive figures were caused by the Europa League reach the record levels of 2008. since 2008. It also actively Logistik AG (HHLA). In its 125 finals 2010, which took place In 2008, 1.8 million standard supports the implementation jubilee year, the Hamburg port in Hamburg in May. The soc- containers (TEU) of the total of the European Rail Traffic operator therefore inaugurated cer match attracted thousands of 9.7 million TEU handled Management System (ERTMS) a new transshipment centre in of fans from the two finalists, in the port had been moved to enhance cross-border Katowice. Handling volumes of i. e. Spain‘s Club Atlético de on the port railway‘s 300 kms interoperability and signalling the ten million euro facility are Madrid and Britain‘s Fulham long network of tracks. Last procurement. From 2020 100.000 TEU per year. FC, to Hamburg. year, the percentage of rail onwards, the single Europe- www.hamburg-port-authority.de www.hamburg-tourism.de cargo increased even more wide standard for train control www.hhla.de Hamburg News 09/2010 Page 4

Bigger and better: Reeperbahn-Festival to celebrate five-year jubilee in style Extensive ARTS programme and industry platform Reeperbahn Campus to complement the club festival For five years, Reeperbahn Fes- and Mur- Reeper- Extensive art programme tival has put Hamburg‘s sinful mansk. bahn Larger than ever is also Reeper- mile into a state of emergency Further Festival bahn Festival‘s arts program- with spectacular live music on artists will was in- me, comprising street art with the last September weekend. be presen- s p i r e d Viva Con Agua, photo exhibi- This year, 160 bands and solo ted once by the tions at Makrele and Beatlema- performers of new indepen- again live world‘s nia, guided St. Pauli tours tra- dent music have announced by MTV largest cing the history of their participation at Germany‘s entertai- club and the red light district, and largest club festival, with many ner Ray event the fifth Flatstock Poster Con- more still in the pipeline. Cokes in S o u t h vention with renowned artists its after- By South from all over the world. Career hothouse: the noon show “Ray‘s Reeperbahn West Festival (SXSW) in Aus- The show will be complemen- From 23 - 25 September 2010, Revue“. tin, Texas. ted by a presentation of the they will perform for three Hamburg-based gallery Fein- nights at Germany‘s most crea- kunst Krüger, showcasing for tive neighbourhood, where the Up-to-date the first time at “Rocker‘s Ori- later world-famous Beatles had ginal“ the original drawings As innovative industry platform of the music and creative in- started their career exactely 50 that served as templates for dustry, Reeperbahn Campus will complement the club festival. years ago: in the clubs, bars, the posters produced in screen Its roughly 30 events will focus on the key topics Recorded Music, and theatres of Hamburg‘s print. Music films will be pre- Live Entertainment, Interactive, and Media. Some 2,000 experts of nightlife neighbourhood St. sented at East cinema by UN- the industry are expected to attend the meeting, including Seymour Pauli. ERHÖRT! music film festival, Sein as keynote speaker. The campus also focus on current deve- This year, Reeperbahn Festival‘s which will also host panel dis- lopments in China, and continue discussions with a congress held line-up includes, inter alia, The cussions on music films in the 7 - 8 October at Hamburg House on Shanghai‘s EXPO grounds. Irrepressibles, Friska Viljor presence of directors. http://campus.reeperbahnfestival.com DJ-Team, ROX, Kat Frankie, www.reeperbahnfestival.com

Hamburg to expand business contacts to South Amerika News-Bits HWF acquires three companies from Latin America – subcontinent is booming The Hamburg label “Closed“ The first “Hamburg Community for instance, recently acquired of the . Also, is hot with Hollywood‘s biggest Forum – Spain, Portugal, Latin three Latin American compa- numerous shipping lines ope- stars like Patrick Dempsey and America” got huge resonance. nies. With South Food Plus rate scheduled liner services Katie Holmes. But it was Sarah Some 70 representatives from from Chile, Intra Europa from between Hamburg and La- Jessica Parker, wearing the time- politics, business, and acade- Mexico, and Heinemann & tin America‘s ports. Bilateral less trousers in the cult movie mia followed the invitation by Passanante from Uruguay, contacts in business, cultural “Sex in the City 2“ who caused HWF Hamburg Business Deve- three large trading houses matters and education are also the craze. lopment Corporation and HWC have opened offices in the Elbe supported by several assoca- www.closed.com Hamburg Welcome Center to metropolis. tions, including, inter alia, the exchange ideas and business The Hamburg trade relations Lateinamerikaverein, found- Hamburg‘s most glamorous options at the Hamburg Cham- with the sub continent, ex- ed in 1916 by Hamburg mer- nightlife borough now boasts its ber of Commerce for an entire pected to enjoy a 5.2 per cent chants. Last but not least, a own St. Pauli Museum. Loca- day. To contact the target group growth according to the Uni- very active and personal pro- ted at the corner Davidstraße 16/ also online, HWF will update its ted Nations Economic Com- motion of Hamburg‘s assets is Friedrichstraße 1, it presents on website with a Spanish langua- mission, have a century-long pursued by the city‘s three ho- 160 sqm the history, scandals, ge version. tradition. They range from the norary HamburgAmbassadors and famous faces of Hamburg‘s Promising bilateral develop- twinning with León in Nica- located in the region. famous “Kiez“. ments already take place. ragua to Brazil‘s importance http://welcome.hamburg.de http://st-pauli-museum.com HWF‘s business developers, as ninth largest trade partner www.hamburg-economy.de

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