Hamburg News

11/2012

Wind energy exports boom Port speeds up E-Commerce capital Dual leadership More and more windfarms Hamburg‘s smart port logistics Hamburg is Germany‘s number With Georges Delanon and Kent on land and sea are planned pilot project optimises transport one in sales on the Internet and Nagano, two international stars and built with expertise from and logistics processes and brings Europe‘s fourth biggest player in will direct the Hamburg State Hamburg‘s specialists. (p. 2) containers faster aboard. (p. 2) online commerce. (p. 3) Opera from 2015 to 2020. (p. 4) Newsflash Eight new members join the economic development council Hamburg makes you Business developers of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region expand their co-operation happy: Hamburg is the home port of happiness. Following the ex- In the “happiness atlas pansion of the Ham- 2012“, the Elbe metropo- burg Metropolitan lis successfully defended Region, also the its top position. Issued by business developers the Deutsche Post, the sur- put their co-operati- vey once again confirmed on on a new footing the Hamburg locals as the and extended the country‘s happiest Ger- economic develop- mans. In the nationwide ment council. They ranking, Hamburg came to recently welcomed the Invest the public business developers of the Hamburg metropolitan the top position with 84 out Mecklenburg-West Pomerania of the two German states of region and of the Innovations- of 100 points, followed by Dusseldorf and Dresden on GmbH and the business pro- Hamburgs and Schleswig-Hol- zentrum Niedersachsen Stra- second and third position. moters of Lübeck and Neu- stein has been contractually tegie und Ansiedlung GmbH, The bottom ranks of satis- münster, the districts of East regulated since 1998. The con- WTSH-Wirtschaftsförderung faction are shared by Ber- Holstein, Southwest Mecklen- tractual basis of co-operation und Technologietransfer lin, Cologne, and Essen. burg, Northwest Mecklenburg, of the HWF with Süderelbe Schleswig-Holstein GmbH, All data of the atlas were the newly founded business AG was updated this autumn. HWF Hamburg Business De- collected by the inde- development corporation of Since 1998, HWF has been inte- velopment Corporation, and pendent market research the district of Segeberg and grating the entire metropolitan Süderelbe AG. Last month, institute TNS Emnid. EGNO Entwicklungsgesell- region in its international acti- the extended circle of business Hamburg‘s varied cultural schaft Norderstedt mbH as vities of promoting Hamburg developers had its first joint life, the city‘s many spor- new members. The collaborati- as a business location. appearance at the 15th Interna- ting events and its effici- ent public transport were on of the economic promoters The region‘s business develo- tional Trade Fair for Commer- major factors for citizen in the North has tradition. pers are members of the me- cial Property and Investment contentment. The locals 25 years ago, WAS Wirtschafts- tropolitan region‘s economic EXPO REAL in Munich. They all also express a high satis- und Aufbaugesellschaft Stor- development council, which shared the joined stand of the faction about the quality of marn and HWF Hamburg Busi- co-ordinates the location mar- Hamburg Metropolitan Region Hamburg‘s air and water. ness Development Corporation keting and cluster manage- organised by HWF. www.gluecksatlas.de signed a first co-operation ag- ment Until now, it included http://metropolregion.hamburg.de reement. The collaboration of representatives of each district www.hwf-hamburg.de

Hamburg chosen as site for a third Max Planck Institute New building for excellence in nanotechnology planned on the DESY grounds in Bahrenfeld Hamburg will soon boast its ration project “Center for Free- ternational centre for structural As a knowledge metropolis, third Max Planck Institute. Electron Laser Science (CFEL)“ research, the new institute will Hamburg is already home to Construction of the new Max by the University of Hamburg, be a focal point for scientists two other Max Planck Insti- Planck Institute for struc- DESY and Max Planck Society from all over the world, allow- tutes – the Max Planck Institute ture and dynamics of matter will thus be given a new base ing basic research, observati- for meteorology and the Max (MPISD) is already to begin to expand research with syn- on and manipulation of matter Planck Institute for foreign and next year. chrotron radiation and free so far inaccessible in scales of international private law. The successful trilateral co-ope- electron lasers (FEL). As an in- length and time. www.mpg.de Hamburg News 11/2012 Page 2

Northern German wind energy is a top export Shortcuts Increasingly, global players choose Hamburg to plan and built their wind farms E-cars for skilled trades Hamburg‘s wind power exper- 70 kms off the shores of Sylt, Hamburg, Windreich AG is in a To make the mobility of crafts- tise is in international demand. Germany‘s most northern is- position to set up turn key off- men on duty more sustainable Off the British coast, the off- land: DanTysk and Sandbank. shore wind projects and hand and eco-friendly, the Hamburg shore wind farm Ormonde Vattenfall started its wind them over to the client. Sie- Chamber of Crafts and Trades recently started operations. energy division in Germany in mens, for instance, entrusted promotes the introduction of 1,000 electric vehicles to the It was built by the Hamburg 2009 with just five employees. Windreich with the construc- industry that currently only wind turbine specialist REpo- Today, more than 70 staff work tion of Global Tech I. Boasting operates ten e-cars. wer for the Swedish energy for the world‘s second-largest a total capacity of 400 mega Hamburg supports the cam- supplier Vattenfall. The wind operator of offshore wind watts, it will deliver zero- paign and will set up a char- farm at high sea consists of 30 farms on onshore and offshore emission energy to more than ging unit in front of the REpower five mega watts wind projects. one million people. Windreich chamber‘s seat at Holstenwall turbines with a total capacity Having grown by 38 per cent CEO Willi Balz is thus convin- still this year. The initiative of 150 mega watts. Also with last year, REpower employs ced: You cannot be successful of the Chamber of Crafts and REpower as manufacturing some 500 staff in Hamburg. in green energies without a Trades is part of the “Clean partner, Vattenfall realised his 167 employees joined the boo- Hamburg branch, especially in Air Scheme“, launched by the largest onshore project: the ming company this year. regard to offshore wind farms Hamburg business communi- Dutch Zuidlob wind farm with More than 22 offshore project in the North Sea. Consequent- ty and the Senate of Hamburg in the frame of their new “part- 36 REpower turbines of 3.4 in the German North Sea are ly, Windreich will hire some 60 nership for air quality and low- mega watts each. currently being planned by new staff in the current year. emission mobility“. Further two Vattenfall wind Windreich AG. Thanks to the www.erneuerbare-energien- www.hwk-hamburg.de farms are under construction subsidiary company WKU AG, hamburg.de Evotec: potent alliances Evotec and Bayer Pharma AG Successful research in the fight against pandemics have entered into a five-year, Qiagen‘s virus detectives are in high demand – EFRE funds for tropical diagnostics multi-target collaboration with the goal of developing new From avian influenza to SARS, Quigan that reveals whether private partnership. They now treatments of endometriosis. malaria, hepatitis, and HIV: the influenza was triggered by jointly build up a reference 176 million women worldwi- Hamburg companies and re- bacterial or viral pathogens data base with samples from de suffer from the abnormal search institutes are in interna- received approval by the US patients with tropical diseases, growth of tissue in locations outside of the uterine cavity tional demand, when it comes drug regulator FDA. The Uni- serving as a base for the de- that usually lines the uterus to decrypt dangerous diseases ted States of America today velopment of novel tests. The inside. Evotec recently also en- and to prevent pandemics. nearly contribute 50 per cent European Fund for Regional tered a multi-year compound The Hamburg diagnostics spe- to group sales. Development (EFRE) funds management agreement with cialist Qiagen, for instance, To develop and promote test their tropical diagnosis project the National Institutes of Health was among the first compa- kits for tropical diseases, the with 4.63 million euro within (NIH), Department of Health nies worldwide to offer test Hamburg players Bernhard- the framework of the action and Human Services, for the kits for the swine flu in 2009 Nocht Institute for Tropical field “Innovation, networking operation of a Small Molecule within a few weeks after the Medicine (BNI) and ADT Al- and knowledge transfer“. Repository. The contract covers outbreak. tona diagnostic technologies www.qiagen.com a period of up to ten years and This year, a novel flu test by GmbH have signed a public- www.bni-hamburg.de has a total estimated value of up to 60 million euro. www.evotec.de

Port of Hamburg introduces advanced IT platform Glass lift in XXL Smart Port Logistics project makes container handling much faster Germany‘s largest external glass lift is now operating in With SAP and Deutsche Tele- further optimise the transport lorry drivers were given traffic Hamburg. Made from security kom as partners, the Hamburg and logistics processes in such and parking information from glass, the lift connects the 21 Port Authority (HPA) has suc- a way that even greater quan- HPA‘s port road management levels of the 66 m Crystal Tow- cessfully launched an IT pro- tities of goods in the port area system by a personalised er at a speed of 2.5 metres per ject in logistics, closely linking can be handled. pushing service. Simultane- second. The spectacular lift companies, partners and cu- The route network of the port ously, the participating freight was manufactured by Glinde- stomers of the port. In the pilot of Hamburg is limited and can- forwarders were able track based Hütter Aufzüge. The project “Smart Port Logistics“, not be further extended. Thus, their transport orders in real hidden champion from the a comprehensive IT platform an efficient traffic manage- time. Hamburg Metropolitan Region is a specialist for unusual lifts. was created and combined ment is the prerequisite for The technology used in the Its innovative inclined lift that with custom-tailored mobile the future growth of Europe‘s Smart Port Logistics project in- moves up and down the ship- applications. Installed on mo- second largest container port. cluded German Telekom‘s Te- shaped Dockland office buil- bile devices such as tablet PCs During the three-months te- lematicOne, SAP‘s NetWeaver ding in Hamburg was honou- or smart phones, they allow to sting period meanwhile com- Cloud platform as well a con- red with the “World Elevator retrieve information on traffic pleted, 30 trucks were equip- cepts for web-based services Award“ in 2007. and services around the har- ped with tablet PCs. market places. www.huetter-aufzuege.de bour in real time. Thus connected to the Smart With the new tool, HPA aims to Port Logistics platform, the www.hamburg-port-authority.de Hamburg News 11/2012 Page 3

Shortcuts Hamburg – a leader of Europe‘s E-Commerce

KLU: top flight Hamburg is Germany‘s capital Hamburg was ranked fourth ted in the Hanseatic city. They Just two years after it was of e-commerce. With a turn- after Luxemburg, home of include, for instance, the street- founded, the Hamburg-based over of 5.5 billion euro, the Elbe Amazon‘s headquarters, Lon- wear pioneer frontlineshop up, Kühne School of Logistics metropolis was ranked best in don, and Paris. The closeness the German book wholesaler (KLU) has reached the top tier the “Top 400 Europe“ survey to the main economic centres Libri.de, and Airbnb.com, a glo- in the country‘s most prestigi- by the industry magazine Inter- in Europe, previously only felt, bal market leader for online ho- ous ranking of 120 business net Retailer. The survey refers was thus confirmed for the first mestay and short term rental. studies faculties in Germany, to product sales on the Inter- time by the survey‘s figures. The growth of Hamburg‘s e- Austria and Switzerland con- ducted by Handelsblatt. In the net and the best-selling 400 e- The multichannel retailer commerce industry has been category “performance per commerce companies in Euro- of Otto Group, Globetrotter supported by Hamburg@ professor“, KLU was ranked pe. Sales by subsidiaries were and Tchibo form the core of work by the action line eCom- seventh-best – on par with attributed to the headquarters Hamburg‘s e-commerce in- merceCity. Launched some 18 long-established faculties of the respective parent com- dustry. The city is also in good months ago, networking and such as the one of Munich. panies of the group. shape in terms of Internet pure the talent acquisition are focal www.the-klu.org In European comparison, the players, with more than 1,000 points of the initiative. German e-commerce capital merchants of all sectors loca- www.e-commerce-hamburg.de Faster to Copenhagen In 2021, a train ride from Copenhagen to Hamburg Students to give HafenCity a unique atmosphere should take not take 3 ½, but just 2 ½ hours.This is Topping-out ceremony of HafenCity University – inauguration in late 2013 the goal of the five partners Following office workers, visi- the city, centrally under one core cooling, wind ventilation of the STRING co-operation tors, and residents, students roof. Shaped like two wings, and other innovative green – Schleswig-Holstein, Ham- burg, Skåne, Zealand, and the are to conquer HafenCity, with its two four and five storeys technologies, the building re- Copenhagen capital region. HafenCity University (HCU) of- tall parts are linked by a light- flects the university‘s aspira- www.stringnetwork.org ficially starting operations at drenched glass foyer, opening tion and claim as innovation Baakenhafen at the beginning the university to the public by leader. With U4‘s “HafenCity New tourism record of the winter semester 2013. incorporating a café/restaurant Universität“ station, HCU is In July, overnight stays in As Europe‘s only institute of and exhibition spaces. Next well integrated into Hamburg‘s Hamburg for the first time higher education, HCU focuses to lecture halls and laborato- public transport network. And exceeded more than one mil- exclusively on construction ries, the wings will house se- its 1,600 students will surely lion nights in one months. In and urban planning. Founded minar and study rooms that bring a unique atmosphere to July, figures climbed by 13.7 in 2006, HCU‘s new home at are flexible in function and Elbtorquartier, the knowledge per cent compared to 2011. HafenCity will finally unite all adjustable in size. Featuring neighbourhood of Hamburg‘s Overnight stays by foreign seven degree courses, un- geothermal energy, solar pho- HafenCity. guests even increased by 16.8 til now located throughout tovoltaic, solar thermal, night www.hcu-hamburg.de per cent in July. With 63.2 per cent, the occupancy rate from January to July was also much higher than in 2011 (60.9 Hamburg‘s south: plenty of room for logistics and industry per cent). Hamburg‘s hotel dy- namics are also reflected by Hamburg‘s south is a gem with is still designated as port area. and aviation industry could recent or scheduled openings. huge potential for growth. It The district, however, hopes to be created at Altenwerder After Scandic‘s design hotel not only boast some of the be able to develop the vast area West/Vollhöfner Weiden on Emporio, Henri Hamburg, In- city‘s most exciting new re- on 210 hectares for companies 56 hectares still managed by digo Hamburg St. Pauli, and sidential waterfront develop- of the aviation industry, logisti- the Hamburg Port Authority. Raphael Hotel Wälderhaus are ments and innovative tech- cs, container handling or medi- At the city state‘s border with to follow still this year. nology centres and academic um-sized commercial players. Lower Saxony, the industrial www.hamburg-tourism.de think tanks, but also attractive The district of Harburg will also site Neugraben-Sandbek also premises for businesses of all ask the Hamburg Port Authori- offers a great potential for the Another airport award trades and sizes. This was con- ty to review the port land use aviation industry on 38.6 hec- At the “World Routes Awards 2012“, the marketing team of firmed by the new land use of the flushing fields Moorburg tares. Currently, the grounds Hamburg Airport achieved plan of the Harburg district, re- east and west to provide some opposite the former Röttiger a solid success by ranked vealing some new interesting the rapidly growing logistics barracks are still designated Europe‘s second-best airport. areas for logistics and industry. industry with 111 hectares of for residential use. The new Overall winner in the Europe Seven sites are of particular in- growth space. Further logisti- land use plan presented by category was Brussels. The terest. cs premises could be created Harburg was highly welcomed award was granted at the 18th At the logistics site Neuländer on 11 hectares near Bostelbek by Hamburg‘s business com- World Routes in Abu Dhabi. Straße, 27.3 hectares of public at Fürstenmoordamm that are munity. Harburg was the first 3,000 representatives from land west of the A1 motorway currently still under agricultu- of Hamburg‘s seven districts to airports and airlines in 80 offer great potentials for eco- ral use. present its reviewed land use countries participated at the friendly green logistics pro- In the commercial area of Wal- plan. The Senate of Hamburg conference. www.hamburg-airport.de jects. Incorporating the four tershofer Straße Ost, there are had asked all Hamburg districts basins of the Harburg seaport, some additional 14 hectares to indicate growth opportuni- the area between Moorburg‘s available for logistics. Fur- ties in Hamburg to businesses main dyke and the inland port ther premises for the logistics from home and abroad. Hamburg News 11/2012 Page 4

Hamburg State Opera returns to dual leadership with two international stars Georges Delnon and Kent Nagano to lead the Hamburg State Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra from 2015 The Hamburg State Opera has Crossing countries and cultures officially named the successors Kent Nagano (60), US-Ame- of Simone Young, who will lea- rican of Japanese descent, is ve Hamburg in 2015. Georges regarded as one of the world‘s Delnon was appointed as new most outstanding conductors intendant and member of the for both opera and orchestral board, Kent Nagano as princi- repertoire. From 1989 to 1998, pal music director and conduc- he shaped the Opéra Natio- tor. Furthermore, Kent Nagano nal de Lyon as one of France‘s will share the position of artistic most important opera venues. director of the Hamburg Phil- Since then, he left his imprint harmonic State Opera together on many renowned orchestras with Georges Delnon. Both and opera houses. As principal contracts will run until 2020. conductor, Nagano worked at By 2015, Simone Young ended the Hallé in Manchester, with their ten-year successful work. Berlin‘s Symphonic Orchestra The Australian conductor suc- Easter sounds (2000-2006) and the orchestra cessfully strengthenen the in- of the “Atelier 20“, a group of Basel, honoured with the presti- of LA Opera (2003-2006). Next terinternational reputation of contemporary music and thea- gious “Opernhaus des Jahres“ to his current task as music the Hamburg opera house and tre in the Swiss capital of Ber- award under his stewardship in director for Orchestre sympho- laid a foundation upon which ne in 1985. In 1996, Denon was 2009 and 2010. As intendant, nique de Montréal until 2016, their successors Kent Nagano appointed director of city thea- Georges Delnon is strongly Nagano has also been contrac- and Georges Delnon can build. tre of Koblenz, followed by the committed to integrating con- ted in this position by the Bava- same position at the state thea- temporary music theatre and rian State Opera, where he has New sounds tre of Mainz in 1999. Since 2006, interdisciplinary art forms into established his credentials par- Born in Zurich in 1958, Geor- Delnon has been working as di- the performance schedule and ticularly in contemporary work. ges Delnon (54) was co-founder rector of the innovative Theater theatre programme. www.staatsoper-hamburg.de

New Jewish life at Grindel and Rothenbaum News Bits Chabad Lubawitsch Centre to move to larger premises – Jewish community grows With the Internet services of- Hamburg‘s Jewish community an inner city neighbourhood Mitzwa or other Jewish feasts, fered by its public administration, moves to representative pre- that boast a long Jewish tradi- Wooks GmbH provides kosher Hamburg is among the pioneers mises. Leaving Rentzelstraße, tion: Grindel. There, the former catering. Great wines from Is- of e-government portals, says the Chabad Lubawitsch Centre Talmud Tora school has been rael can be found at Mezada, McKinsey. Its consultants exa- will find a new home at the so- reactivated in 2007 as Joseph Rentzelstr. 13. mined in 200 German cities and called “Ro19-Villa“ at Rothen- Carlebach school to teach Je- The past and present of towns how well citizens could baumchaussee 19. The white wish children. Younger ones Hamburg‘s Jews is alive accomplish eight typical admini- Victorian villa will mainly serve are being looked after at the throughout the city. On the strative tasks online. as an educational centre, of- Ronald Lauder day care centre second floor of hamburgmu- www.mckinsey.de fering, inter alia, also Sunday and the Ganon nursery. seum, a permanent exhibition school for children. Plans also Also continuously growing is on Hamburg‘s Jewish heritage Hamburg is Germany‘s most include a kosher restaurant on the provision of kosher food. It has been set up, often com- beautiful city. In a survey by the the ground floor. All rooms is now not only available at the plemented by special shows. market research company BauIn- not used by the centre will be EDEKA aktiv supermarket Sven The Institute for the history of foConsul among 180 architects, available for rent. Anders at Grindelallee, but also German Jews compiled a hi- Hamburg pushed Berlin from the Comprising some 3,500 mem- at the Nur Hier bakery chain story reference book, available top position, while Munich was bers, Hamburg‘s Jewish com- that introduced “Lüneburger“ online along with an image gal- ranked third. munity is among the country‘s as Hamburg‘s first kosher lery. www.bauinfoconsult.de largest. Its centre is located in bread. When celebrating Ba- www.chabadhamburg.de

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