- CEO
- Jeroen Eijsink
- Full Time Employees
- 6,549
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Marine Shipping
- Address
- Bei St. Annen 1 Hamburg Germany 20457
- IPO Date
- Jan 20, 2011
- Business
- Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is a leading European port and transport logistics company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and founded in 1885 as Hamburger Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft. The company operates through four main segments—Container, Intermodal, Logistics, and Real Estate—focusing on container handling in seaports, intermodal transport to the European hinterland, specialized logistics services, and property development. Its core products and services include operation of three major container terminals in Hamburg (Container Terminal Altenwerder, Container Terminal Burchardkai, and Container Terminal Tollerort), additional container facilities in Tallinn, Estonia, Trieste, Italy, and Odessa, Ukraine; multi-purpose and RoRo terminals such as Unikai and HHLA Frucht- und Kühl-Zentrum in Hamburg and HHLA TK Estonia; bulk cargo handling at Hansaport in partnership with Salzgitter AG; intermodal rail and road transport via fully owned subsidiary METRANS, which manages 20 terminals, over 130 locomotives, and 4,000 railcars connecting North Sea, Baltic, and Adriatic ports to Central and Eastern Europe, and container trucking through CTD; logistics services encompassing warehouse operations, fruit and refrigerated goods handling, consulting via HPC Hamburg Port Consulting, project cargo solutions, and digital innovations like passify for truck processing and HHLA Sky for drone control; real estate development and management in Hamburg's Speicherstadt UNESCO district, Fischmarkt Hamburg-Altona, and port-related logistics properties. HHLA serves global trade routes, particularly between Asia and Europe, with high automation at facilities like the pioneering Container Terminal Altenwerder and ongoing modernization at Burchardkai including automated guided vehicles, expanded rail capacity, and renewable energy-powered cranes. Recent major developments include the November 2024 completion of MSC Group's acquisition of a 49.9% minority stake in HHLA, forming a joint venture with the City of Hamburg holding 50.1% to boost cargo throughput; expansion of storage capacity by 6,000 TEU at Container Terminal Burchardkai to a total of 45,000 TEU using space-efficient, CO2-reducing yards; integration of hydrogen infrastructure at Container Terminal Tollerort as part of the Clean Port & Logistics Cluster for emission-free operations; and advancement of the Balanced Logistics sustainability strategy, achieving 42% CO2 reduction from 2018 levels by end-2024 toward climate-neutral goals by 2040, with 79.7% of revenues EU taxonomy-compliant. The company employs around 6,900 people across 12 European countries and continues investments in automation, digitalization through HHLA Next, and network resilience amid geopolitical challenges.