EDITION OCTOBER 2019 Magazine for Ports, Shipping and Logistics CAREER & COMPETENCE Main topic: Profession There is no magic formula Doldrums or storm of enthusiasm? bremenports submerged How can the maritime economy Lack of skilled workers in the container Port divers and become more attractive? and cruise shipping industries their multifaceted role Page 10 Page 16 Page 19 Focus on our staff We not only ensure that the ports of Bremen function reliably, but also look after the wellbeing of our more than 370 employees. Our personnel policies are family-friendly, designed to promote our employees’ health and geared to the changing requirements and life phases of our staff. We offer individual working hours models, an in-house fitness pro - gramme and “Health Days” to promote the wellbeing of our workforce. [email protected] www.bremenports.de/en PREFACE & CONTENT EDITION OCTOBER Download the LOGISTICS PILOT kiosk app and read our magazine 2019 offline on your smartphone or tablet. Impression 4 Germany Bremen Career opportunities in logistics defy their reputation Dieter Schumacher, employment director at BLG LOGISTICS GROUP Lower Saxony Main Topic 10 Dear Readers, more than three million people are employed in logistics in Germany, around 300,000 of them in Bremen and Lower Saxony. Behind these figures there is an immense variety of attractive, but in some cases little-known, career and development opportunities. From forklift drivers to managers, logistics offers a wide range of roles and opportunities. In times of low unemployment, how can we market ourselves as attractive employers and attract and retain the best talent? We need to look at people holistically and consider the worlds they live in. Since 2011, the recruitment team at BLG LOGISTICS has been working with the Sinus milieu studies, and we have found them to a useful basis for our work. We might find a manager via professional networks or by Logistics Story advertising on job boards, but forklift drivers move in a completely different world. It is about addressing our target groups where they are and meeting them eye-to-eye. For anyone working in training and career 16 development in the logistics industry, this is the challenge that we have to meet if we are to continue to attract the people we need. Best wishes, Dieter Schumacher News 6 People 26 Portrait Safety & Security Behind the Scenes Appointments 28 19 22 24 MARIKOM, JBA, KATEMANGOSTAR/FREEPIK.COM, KATEMANGOSTAR/FREEPIK.COM, JBA, MARIKOM, KREUZFAHRTEN AIDA HAPAG-LLOYD, PHOTO COVER PAGE: ISTOCKPHOTO/NATNAN SRISUWAN ISTOCKPHOTO/NATNAN PAGE: COVER PHOTO BEHREND, CLAUDIA LOGISTICS, BLG PHOTOS: Preview & Imprint 30 LOGISTICS PILOT October 2019 3 IMPRESSION World champion with Approx. 176,000 employed in port handling and training problems related services. “The ports are a vital part of the German economy and enable our country to be a world leader in exports and logistics.” This is the finding of a study published in July 2019 by the Over 520,000 jobs Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI) looking at the economic are provided by German ports. significance of German sea and inland ports as employers. But the industry struggles to attract young talent. Many companies see a considerable risk in the shortage of skilled workers, while the industry training body, Berufsbildungsstelle Seeschifffahrt (BBS), has highlighted a fall in the number of apprentice ship mechanics. The following statistics provide an overview of the €27.4bn sales achieved in the ports industry current situation. in 2016 – with value creation of €9.7bn. SOURCE: INVESTIGATION OF THE 328 Vehicle mechanic Admin exec Trade and industry ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF GERMAN SEA AND INLAND PORTS AS apprenticeship was the most popular was the most popular was the professional EMPLOYERS, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT (BMVI) professions in apprenticeship job apprenticeship job among group with the most Germany in 2018. among men in 2016. women in 2016. new training contracts in 2016. QUELLE: STATISTA 2019 4 LOGISTICS PILOT October 2019 Biggest commercial threats in the next 12 months * Bremen Labour costs Skillls shortages Germany Apprentices with new training contracts in the maritime Framework economy as at Young men and women who September 30 2018 began an apprenticeship as ship mechanics in Germany Main barriers to filling vacant 295 sales execs for despatch and logistics positions * services 185 warehouse logistics Lack of specialists qualifications 84 warehouse operators 30 maritime execs, Applicant demands too high (e.g. salary, liner shipping specialists conditions) 13 maritime execs, tramp trade specialists 197 108 No applicants 2014 2018 1 port logistics specialist SOURCE: BREMEM COC SOURCE: COMPANY SURVEY ON SKILLS IN THE BREMEN SOURCE: 2018 ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE ECONOMY IN AUTUMN 2018 (BREMEN COC) BERUFSBILDUNGSSTELLE SEESCHIFFFAHRT (BBS) 29,992 training contracts were concluded in Lower Saxony in 2018, of which 1,593 were in the transport sector (COC roles only). 4,700 apprentices No. of new training Lower Saxony contracts in Germany were working in logistics in Lower Saxony at the end of 2018. 41% of companies in the logistics sector there could not fill all their training places in 2018. 612.529 557.634 616.342 529.542 531.413 Why did posts remain unfilled? Main reasons * 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018 SOURCE: STATISTA 2019 Lack of suitable candidates. Training contract terminated by company. Training contract terminated by trainee. No applicants. SOURCE: LOWER SAXONY COC * MULTIPLE CHOICE PROVIDED. FREEPIK.COM IBRANDIFY/FREEPIK.COM, (2), FREEPIK.COM KATEMANGOSTAR/FREEPIK.COM, (5), WWW.FLATICON.COM FROM (5) HEIKE MAY MAKYZZ/FREEPIK.COM, LOGISTICS PILOT October 2019 5 NEWS IN BRIEF HAMBURG. Against the background of the planned expansion of mobile comms in Germany, the Association of German Shipowners (VDR) and the Federal Chamber of Pilots World’s biggest container ship approaches Bremerhaven (BLK) are jointly calling for an improvement in coverage in BREMERHAVEN. The world’s largest container destination of Rotterdam. MSC Gülsün is part of German coastal waters. ship, the MSC Gülsün, moored in Bremerhaven on MSC’s Megamax 24 series, which comprises eleven Maritime broadband communi- 19 August. It is 399.9 metres long and 61.55 metres ships and was commissioned in 2017. The order wide and operates for the 2M alliance of the was divided between two South Korean shipyards: cation on the North Sea and container lines MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) will deliver six of Baltic Sea is central to the digital Company) and Maersk. Its maximum capacity is just the ships at the reduced unit price of $138m, while transformation of shipping, but under 225,000 tonnes or 23,756 standard containers Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will is still significantly underdevel- (TEU). The giant started its long-distance voyage contribute five units. MSC Gülsün is the first ship of oped. Mobile phone reception in on 8 July in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin. It the series built by SHI. The next will be the MSC the 200-mile range of the sailed via the Mediterranean port of Algeciras to Mina, which is expected to arrive in Bremerhaven on Exclusive Economic Zone is Bremerhaven and from there via Gdansk to its 9 September. mostly incomplete or non- existent, so that comms are dependent on VHF radio and Eleven kilometres of contact wires for harbour railway satellite telephone. BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN. WILHELMSHAVEN. In order to ensure the future availability of the Bremen port railway, the old Nordfrost has already invested overhead line has been dismantled and replaced by cross fields. These 104 million euros in the freight were suspended from 51 new catenary masts and attached at right angles traffic centre of the container to the tracks. Approximately eleven kilometres of contact wires have been port of Wilhelmshaven and is set suspended and tensioned from them. In addition, 67 new lighting poles with to add another 66 million euros. the latest LED technology have been erected. The points are now being Since it moved to Wilhelmshav- optimised for additional operational reliability, especially in winter. The overall cost for the work in Kaiserhafen is €5.2m. en in 2012, the 23,000 square Enjoy Swiss hospitality. metre logistics centre has grown threefold. After Nordfrost On your ight to Asia.½ obtained planning permission Meyer Werft build new logistics centre for a fully automated 40m From Bremen via high-bay warehouse and an PAPENBURG. Meyer Werft has announced the construction of a new Zurich to nine 8,000 square metre, three-aisle logistics centre. It will help to manage goods flows and will be built on Rheiderlandstrasse (K 158) in Bokeler Bogen. It is designed as a fully heavy-duty hall with overhead Asian destinations. automated high-bay warehouse with space for 25,000 storage units. The cranes for project cargo investment amounts to around €40m. The existing central warehouse is to weighing up to 125 tonnes, be relocated from the company premises to the computer-controlled construction work has recently logistics center. Construction work on the new logistics center began in PHOTOS: MSC, TWITTER/PORTS OF BREMEN AND BREMERHAVEN, MEYER WERFT, NORDFROST, NPORTS/ANDREAS BURMANN, BREMENPORTS BURMANN, NPORTS/ANDREAS NORDFROST, WERFT, MEYER AND BREMERHAVEN, BREMEN OF TWITTER/PORTS MSC, PHOTOS: begun. August and is due for completion early in 2021. 6 LOGISTICS PILOT October 2019 swiss.com Made of Switzerland. 046_300_Business_Glas_220x140_Anzeige_Bremen_en 1 12.08.19 16:26 Nordfrost to enter Third place for NPorts bremenports rewilded ferry market energy scouts die Billerbeck WILHELMSHAVEN. OLDENBURG. Energy scouts Leah Beckedorf BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN. The canalised, Freezer logistics company Nordfrost wants to (second from left) and Adrian Schmeyer (second wildlife-poor Lune distributary is to become a repurpose its seven-hectare company-owned from right) have been awarded third place by the meandering stream with optimal conditions for port site in the inner port of Wilhelmshaven.