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.