Hamburg Speicherstadt Elbphilharmonie

OFF TO NEW HORI­ZONS

Thanks to our holis­tic con­cept, we keep the port and peo­ple in mo­tion. We are a knowl­edge­able port man­ager, pub­lic in­sti­tute and mod­ern ser­vice provider, en­abling us to guar­an­tee a re­li­able port in­fra­struc­ture. To­gether with our sub­sidiaries Flotte Ham­burg GmbH & Co KG, Cruise Gate Ham­burg GmbH (CGH) and Cruise Gate Ham­burg Ter­mi­nal Eigen­tum Gesellschaft mbH (TEG), we en­sure safe trans­port routes, an at­trac­tive cruise ship lo­ca­tion and ef­fi­cient com­mu­ni­ca­tion both on the water and on land. In­no­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies and in­tel­li­gent so­lu­tions help us make the port an im­por­tant eco­nomic motor for the en­tire coun­try – dri­ving the value chain, lever­ag­ing de­vel­op­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties and strength­en­ing its in­ter­na­tional po­si­tion for the long term.

Com­pany Strate­gies

To be ready for the fu­ture – prepar­ing for the fu­ture

The Port of Ham­burg is the lo­gis­tics cen­tre for the North of Ger­many and as such one of the sup­ports for eco­nomic growth.
Our job is to en­sure max­i­mum ef­fi­ciency, safety and econ­omy in all areas of the port in­fra­struc­ture. The processes nec­es­sary for this are sup­ported by op­ti­mised IT and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nolo­gies.
Com­mit­ted and fu­ture-ori­en­tated think­ing and trad­ing are the foun­da­tion for our day-to-day work: Our aim is not only to pro­vide the con­di­tions for a grow­ing port, rather to ac­tively pro­mote and shape this de­vel­op­ment. That is the aim of the HPA – this is where all of our ef­forts come to­gether.

As the re­spon­si­ble in­sti­tu­tion under pub­lic law, we are the point of con­tact for all ques­tions con­cern­ing ma­rine and land-based in­fra­struc­ture, the safety of ship­ping traf­fic, the port rail­way fa­cil­i­ties, prop­erty man­age­ment and the eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment of the port.
Our aim is to pro­mote the lo­cat­ing of in­dus­try branches and value added lo­gis­tics in the port area in order to pro­vide a con­sis­tent, long-term in­crease in value cre­ation in the Port of Ham­burg.

Ham­burg is Eu­rope's tra­di­tional Asia port, but also the gate to Cen­tral and East­ern Eu­rope and of course to Scan­di­navia.
From this po­si­tion we are seiz­ing our op­por­tu­ni­ties to fur­ther in­crease port turnover. Here, its not just a ques­tion of in­creased trade with the growth re­gions, we're also part of a tight re­gional net­work. Long-term and trust-based co­op­er­a­tion with the Eu­ro­pean North Sea ports and ports of the in­land wa­ter­ways net­work along the lower Elbe mean we are in a very strong po­si­tion for the fu­ture.

The high stan­dard of our work safe­guards the long-term suc­cess and in­ter­na­tional po­si­tion of the port.
This in­cludes a tai­lor-made and re­li­able in­fra­struc­ture, both ma­rine and land-based, as well as fu­ture-ori­en­tated
trans­port de­vel­op­ment.
By net­work­ing to­gether all our IT sys­tems our in­for­ma­tion ex­change is even faster and more ef­fi­cient. In­ter­modal trans­port so­lu­tions mean that transload­ing is ac­cel­er­at­ing. Last and by no means least, is the qual­i­fied and mo­ti­vated man­power that is an es­sen­tial fac­tor in the port's fu­ture suc­cess.

Port Hamburg dock

All clear in the port – both now and in the fu­ture

The HPA stands at the in­ter­sec­tion of the port's daily rou­tine and its fu­ture.
Our daily job is to pro­vide a pre­cise and re­li­able port in­fra­struc­ture, de­pend­able trans­port paths and ef­fi­cient, trans­par­ent com­mu­ni­ca­tion both ma­rine and land-based.
With a view to the fu­ture of the Port of Ham­burg, we are con­stantly look­ing for in­no­v­a­tive ap­proaches to allow us to sus­tain­ably ex­ploit the growth po­ten­tial of the port and strengthen and ex­pand its po­si­tion in the long term. So­lu­tion- and fu­ture-ori­en­tated think­ing and trad­ing de­fine our work in all di­vi­sions and form the basis for a uni­fy­ing con­cept for the Port of Ham­burg, both now and in the fu­ture.

  • Whistle­blower Sys­tem
  • Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Code
  • En­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy

Whistle­blower Sys­tem

No chance for cor­rup­tion and other legal vi­o­la­tions

Breach of law can occur in dif­fer­ent forms. Vi­o­la­tions of the Ger­man Sup­ply Chain Due Dili­gence Act (Liefer­ket­ten­sorgfalt­spflicht­enge­setz /LkSG), which in­clude in par­tic­u­lar en­vi­ron­men­tal and human rights vi­o­la­tions, dis­re­garded safety reg­u­la­tions or cor­rup­tion of­fences, are con­ceiv­able; The lat­ter in­cludes a whole range of other side as­pects in ad­di­tion to bribery or cor­rup­tion.
Cor­rup­tion of­fenses are pri­mar­ily char­ac­ter­ized by the abuse of a func­tion or po­si­tion in a com­pany or in an au­thor­ity in order to gain per­sonal ben­e­fits. Cor­rup­tion is a prob­lem for the en­tire econ­omy. It un­der­mines trust in the in­tegrity of com­pa­nies and causes sig­nif­i­cant dam­age. At the Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity (HPA), pre­vent­ing cor­rup­tion is there­fore an on­go­ing task; for the man­age­ment as well as for each in­di­vid­ual em­ployee. For this rea­son, the HPA has set up a com­mit­tee (com­mit­tee for the pre­ven­tion and pun­ish­ment of com­pli­ance vi­o­la­tions), which is made up of ex­pe­ri­enced ex­perts and par­tic­u­larly fo­cused on pre­vent­ing cor­rup­tion. It fol­lows a zero-tol­er­ance strat­egy. Clear guide­lines and a code of con­duct shall im­prove aware­ness. For ex­am­ple, the HPA has de­vel­oped an in­ter­nal con­trol sys­tem. The ICS con­tains var­i­ous mea­sures and rules to pre­vent cor­rup­tion. This in­cludes, among other things, the in­tro­duc­tion of a Whistle­blower Sys­tem. All ex­ter­nal busi­ness part­ners are in­vited to con­tact the ex­ter­nal Om­buds­man if they ob­serve or sus­pect ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties or vi­o­la­tions of ex­ter­nal or in­ter­nal reg­u­la­tions of any kind. The process de­scrip­tion can be found here. Em­ploy­ees also have ac­cess to in­ter­nal re­port­ing points, which in­clude all mem­bers of the com­mit­tee for the pre­ven­tion and treat­ment of com­pli­ance vi­o­la­tions.

 

The om­buds­man of the Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity

Con­tact:
You can con­tact Dr Carsten Thiel von Herff on
Phone: +49 521 557 333 – 0
Mo­bile: +49 151 58230321
om­buds­mann@​thi​elvo​nher​ff.​de

Postal ad­dress:
Dr. Carsten Thiel von Herff, LL. M. Sozietät Stre­itbörger Speck­mann
Loe­bell­straße 4
33602 Biele­feld

The Om­buds­mann of the Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity

Dr. Carsten Thiel von Herff

ombudsman Dr. Cars­ten Thiel von Herff

Pre­ven­tion of cor­rup­tion and other legal vi­o­la­tions

The om­buds­man re­ceives in­for­ma­tion or com­plaints in re­gards of sus­pected vi­o­la­tions of laws or in­ter­nal rules of con­duct.

The goal is to clar­ify and pre­vent legal vi­o­la­tions and con­flicts of in­ter­est. There­fore, legally rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion and com­plaints of all kinds are ac­cepted, es­pe­cially re­gard­ing cor­rup­tion and those in the con­text of the Ger­man Sup­ply Chain Due Dili­gence Act (Liefer­ket­ten­sorgfalt­spflicht­enge­setz/LkSG) and the Ger­man Whistle­blower Pro­tec­tion Act (Hin­weis­ge­ber­schutzge­setz/Hin­SchG). Par­tic­i­pants in ten­ders, sup­pli­ers or other busi­ness part­ners are wel­comed, in par­tic­u­lar, to re­port ob­served or sus­pected ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties in ten­ders or in con­nec­tion with con­struc­tion.

Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Code

De­c­la­ra­tion of Com­pli­ance to the Ham­burg Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Codex (HCGC)

Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Kodex

En­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy

We act re­spon­si­bly

The Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity in­tro­duces en­vi­ron­men­tal guide­lines be­cause it is very aware of the area of con­flict be­tween port and en­vi­ron­ment. The aim of the guide­lines is to pro­tect and care for nat­ural re­sources. More­over, sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment must be pro­moted and en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion be firmly po­si­tioned in our think­ing and ap­proach.

The HPA basis for any en­vi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment is the bind­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tion of an en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy. The HPA recog­nises its re­spon­si­bil­ity for en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion ex­plic­itly by way of en­vi­ron­men­tal guide­lines. The re­duc­tion of emis­sions and con­sump­tion, avoid­ance of waste, in­creases in ef­fi­ciency and the im­prove­ment of en­vi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance are es­sen­tial cor­po­rate goals.

En­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy

Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity and its em­ploy­ees are ex­tremely aware of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the port and the en­vi­ron­ment. In ac­cor­dance with our mis­sion to op­er­ate, ex­pand and de­velop the port of Ham­burg, we aim to meet the needs and wishes of our cus­tomers and users, while being care­ful to en­sure that ad­verse ef­fects on the qual­ity of life and the en­vi­ron­ment in the port of Ham­burg and its en­vi­rons are avoided wher­ever pos­si­ble.

With this Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy, the com­pany and its em­ploy­ees set them­selves the ob­jec­tive of pro­tect­ing and main­tain­ing nat­ural re­sources, pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment and en­shrin­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion as a mat­ter of course in every­one's thoughts and ac­tions.

For us, striv­ing to pro­tect the en­vi­ron­ment is a com­mit­ment to cur­rent and fu­ture gen­er­a­tions. Our aim is to min­imise the en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact of our ac­tiv­i­ties as part of our pre­scribed statu­tory pro­ce­dures. En­vi­ron­men­tal aware­ness is ex­tremely im­por­tant in all areas – from the spar­ing use of re­sources, through noise and cli­mate pro­tec­tion, im­proved en­ergy ef­fi­ciency and waste man­age­ment, to water con­ser­va­tion. Ham­burg Port Au­thor­ity has there­fore in­tro­duced an en­vi­ron­men­tal and en­ergy man­age­ment sys­tem.

Over and above com­pli­ance with en­vi­ron­men­tal law, we also set our­selves the ob­jec­tive of con­tin­u­ously im­prov­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion in con­nec­tion with our ac­tiv­i­ties, thereby also con­sid­er­ing the pos­si­ble en­vi­ron­men­tal ef­fects of the port's stake­hold­ers. We there­fore in­cor­po­rate en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact into our de­ci­sion-mak­ing processes. We favour en­vi­ron­men­tally friendly prod­ucts and green tech­nolo­gies for eco­nom­i­cally and op­er­a­tionally ac­cept­able use.

In our com­pany, en­vi­ron­men­tal pre­cau­tions are not only the job of in­di­vid­u­als, but the job of every em­ployee. We pro­mote aware­ness of en­vi­ron­men­tal and cli­mate pro­tec­tion. We there­fore con­duct reg­u­lar train­ing and open di­a­logue at all man­age­ment lev­els of our firm. We ex­pect all staff to act in an en­vi­ron­men­tally re­spon­si­ble man­ner within their areas of re­spon­si­bil­ity.

We seek and main­tain open and crit­i­cal di­a­logue with the pub­lic. We are al­ways grate­ful for ex­ter­nal sug­ges­tions for im­prove­ment.

  • Whistle­blower Sys­tem
  • Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Code
  • En­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy

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