Hamburg Port Authority
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| State level | Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
| position | Public institution |
| Supervisory authority | Supervisory board (6 members appointed by the Senate, 3 employee representatives), technical supervision by the Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation |
| founding | October 1, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
| Servants | 1800 |
| Web presence | http://www.hamburg-port-authority.de/ |
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA, English for "Hamburg Port Authority") operates the port management of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and is responsible for all official matters of the Port of Hamburg . It is an institution under public law and the owner of most of the port properties. With around 1,800 employees, the HPA is responsible for port operations, port development and the development and maintenance of the infrastructure . The area of responsibility includes a. the safety of shipping traffic, the port railway facilities, property management , the water and landside infrastructure and the economic conditions in the port.
The establishment is not to be confused with the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) .
management
The management comprises two positions: Jens Meier is the CEO (CEO) (since April 1, 2008, he has been part of the management). Matthias Grabe was appointed Technical Director (CTO) with effect from October 1, 2017. The management structure of the HPA was last changed in 2008.
Tasks and fields of activity
The Hamburg port area covers 7,145 hectares , of which 4,226 hectares consist of land and 2,919 hectares of water. The port area as a whole corresponds to about a tenth of the total area of Hamburg. The HPA performs the following tasks for these port areas:
Port infrastructure
The HPA provides the port's infrastructure. Their tasks include the maintenance, upkeep and modernization of existing facilities, the control of port waters, traffic systems, bridges and buildings as well as the construction of traffic routes to develop new port areas.
Waterways
The HPA is responsible for the control of the local harbor waters, including the observation of the water level, the runoff and currents. This also includes sediment management, i.e. the relocation of dredged material in the port area, as well as river engineering measures to dampen the tidal waves . Another task is the maintenance of the locks , navigation signs and radar stations in the port area.
The HPA invests 40 to 60 million euros annually to remove the sediments from the harbor basins and fairways, which the Elbe deposits there depending on the flow speed. Four special sounding ships are in use to check the river bed for shoals and sediment deposits. Excavators are used where it is necessary for safety reasons to ensure the required water depths. The HPA takes care of the reinforcement of the embankments and banks with plants, stones or paving and the cleaning of the Elbe beach.
Landside infrastructure
The HPA is the road construction agency and the road supervisory authority. The HPA carries out work on quay walls, berths , areas, bridges , roads and track systems, supply and disposal facilities. It is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the road and rail network. Overall, the HPA is responsible for the maintenance of 130 km of road network, over 300 km of tracks, and over 130 rail and road bridges . Added pontoon bridges, ferry docks , locks, barrages , sluices and weirs . The St. Pauli Elbtunnel , also known as the "Old Elbe Tunnel", is also part of the HPA's area of responsibility . The entire operation of the tunnel, including the elevators and structural maintenance, are the responsibility of the HPA.
With modern communication systems, the HPA has set itself the goal of optimizing the traffic control system through the use of the most modern IT. In the first step, an IT-supported system of graphic and text displays has already been developed, which informs road traffic on LED boards about disruptions in the port's road network.
Shipping safety
The HPA is responsible for the radar support and the pilot service on the Lower Elbe and in the Elbarmen such as the Norderelbe , the Süderelbe , the Köhlbrand , the Köhlfleet and the harbor basin. The Oberhafenamt guarantees nautical safety and a smooth flow of traffic in the port. Port captain Jörg Pollmann is in charge of the Oberhafenamt ; he is responsible for port supervision and nautical issues, including shipping signs.
Flood protection and security
In close cooperation with the state office of the authority for urban development and the environment , the HPA secures the port with public flood protection systems in the event of floods and storm surges . It develops precautionary and early warning systems with the Hamburg storm surge warning service and the port security staff. Flood protection also includes barriers and dikes, but also the use of icebreakers , which reduce the risk of flooding due to ice jams by ensuring that the water level remains constant.
Port railway
The Hamburg Port Railway is a division of the HPA and maintains the railway infrastructure in the Port of Hamburg and makes it available to the railway companies that operate the trains. This includes over 300 kilometers of track and around 160 kilometers of sidings . The railway is the link between the port terminals with the transshipment company and the European rail network .
Fleet management
Since July 1, 2017, HPA has been managing the ships of other Hamburg authorities such as the State Office for Roads, Bridges and Waters (LSBG) with a new subsidiary in addition to its previous 27 ships of its own (e.g. pilot transfer boats ), four floating devices and 40 barges. , the fire brigade and the police . This Fleet Hamburg GmbH & Co. KG wants to save ships in the medium term through multiple uses and be cheaper overall for the State of Hamburg.
Property management
The majority of the land within the port area is owned by the Hamburg Port Authority. According to the provisions of the Port Development Act (HafenEG) of 1982, the land may not be sold and legally only allocated and used for port purposes. The HPA concludes long-term rental agreements with port-based companies. Real estate management also includes looking after the HPA's own areas, buildings, quay walls and floating systems.
Seaman's office
The seaman's office in Hamburg was also part of the HPA. Due to the efforts to standardize the tasks internationally and in the course of bundling tasks, the "Berufsgenossenschaft Verkehr" has been taking care of seafarer-related tasks since July 31, 2013.
Building inspection department
Ensuring structural safety in the Port of Hamburg is the central task of the Port Building Inspection Department. As a regulatory authority task of the HPA, the port building inspection department is responsible for implementing the Hamburg building regulations in the port area. It is thus the public construction supervision over approx. 1/9 of the Hamburg city area. The Port Building Inspection Department is responsible for issuing building and usage permits. Large structures typical of the port represent the focus of the new structures to be approved. The tasks also include the approval of music festivals or special structures such as the musical theater on Steinwerder or the power plant in Moorburg . The repressive approach to structural grievances is also part of the portfolio.
Neuwerk
In addition, the HPA is responsible for all public matters such as B. Drinking water supply , sewage treatment plant , species protection as well as dyke and path maintenance on the Hamburg North Sea island Neuwerk , whose largest employer is the HPA outpost, including the depot and ferry ( Nige Wark ).
Since 2014, this has also included the operation of the beacon from the listed Neuwerk tower , which is considered the oldest building in Hamburg and the oldest secular building on the north German coast.
history
12th to 18th centuries
Today, May 7, 1189 is the official founding date of the Port of Hamburg . On that day, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa issued the city a certificate that was later recognized as a partial forgery and granted Hamburg a number of rights and privileges such as free navigation on the Lower Elbe from the mouth of the Elbe to Hamburg and the free movement of goods in the county of Holstein. From the founding of the port until now, the port's administrative structure and tasks have always adapted to the prevailing conditions and the requirements of the times.
Due to the increasing shipping traffic, more and more sediments were deposited in the Elbe and the silting up of the river and port became an increasing problem. In order to maintain navigability and to monitor the depths of the Elbe, the "Düpe Commission" was founded in 1529. Düpe is derived from the Low German word for depth. The two youngest councilors acted as dupers . In addition, there had been a harbor master and several fleet showers since the 13th century .
The more ships called at Hamburg, the more sailors , porters and merchants populated the port. The call for a central port and shipping administration grew louder. In 1623 the " Admiralty College " was founded for this purpose . It was subordinate to the council and was composed of one of the mayors, four councilors, six merchants and two boatmen. The chairmanship was held every year by one of the mayors. In 1687 two more lawyers were accepted into the district and the "new admiralty" was founded. The primary task of the Admiralty was the protection of shipping from pirates and Kaperern . She also oversaw the arsenal . With the establishment of the "new Admiralty" Collegium took over the first-instance jurisdiction in Law of the Sea, freight and Seeversicherungsfragen, marking the fairway and the management of the port, the supervision of the Dispacheure , Taxadeure, Wasserschout and pilots . In addition, she was subject to the Hamburg and Hanseatic consulates and the quarantine .
19th to 20th century
At the beginning of the 19th century, the judicial system in Hamburg was redesigned based on the French model. This led, among other things, to the fact that the Admiralty was formally dissolved in 1814 and its tasks were transferred to the authorities. The “Shipping and Port Deputation” was established for the administrative tasks of the Admiralty. It was responsible for advising the Senate on all questions relating to port management and port construction. She organized and supervised all structural work in the port and awarded contracts. The harbor master and with him his tasks, such as maintaining security and order as well as the allocation of berths in the port and the organization of work on the loading cranes, were also placed under the supervision of the shipping and port deputation .
Since 1863, two Hamburg authorities shared the tasks that the port brought with it. Structural issues were laid out in the building deputation with the office for electricity and port construction . The Deputation for Trade, Shipping and Trade was responsible for all administrative tasks . In order to combine the various responsibilities in the port and on the Elbe in Hamburg's sovereign territory in one hand, the Senate decided at the end of 1929 to transfer all tasks affecting the port to the Deputation for Shipping, Trade and Industry .
After the Second World War , the British military government began planning the reconstruction of the port. By outsourcing the port administration from the general administration of the city, the efficiency should be increased. The port administration was restructured and the first "Hamburg Port Authority" was established. Tasks were bundled in it and decision-making processes centralized. With the first Hamburg Port Authority in the post-war period, all of the port-related tasks that were previously divided between several different offices were combined. The first Hamburg Port Authority was divided into the following departments:
- Port Security Committee: responsible for port security
- Hamburg Port and Shipping Control Team: regulated access to ships
- Port Engineer Department: supervised quays and other facilities on land
- Inland Water Transport Department: was responsible for inland shipping and the use of harbor tugs, ewer, barges and barges
- German Office for Electricity and Port Construction: ensured the safety of shipping, buoying the fairway and clearing obstacles in the water
After the British handed control of the port back to the Germans, the first Hamburg Port Authority was dissolved and responsibilities were redistributed among several authorities.
At the end of May 1967, the newly established “Port Directorate” department of the Ministry of Economics and Transport began its work. It was abolished in 1995 as part of a restructuring. In the port management, sovereign and ministerial tasks as well as administrative powers of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg were combined in the port and divided into four subdivisions:
- Port development: development programs and traffic analyzes, public relations and the promotion of business settlements in the port area
- Works office: Tasks of the former port operations management, ship registration, fee and tariff problems, operational and work organization, questions of port shipping
- Oberhafenamt , with the port captain as head: responsible for shipping traffic management and nautical supervision
- Freihafenamt: the responsible customs office for the port in Hamburg
The technical planning of the structures, water areas, traffic systems and the execution of the buildings remained in the office for electricity and port construction , as well as fundamental questions of water management, water and building law. The task of real estate management was ultimately taken over by the real estate management, which was part of the tax authorities.
Foundation of the Hamburg Port Authority
On October 1, 2005, with the establishment of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), port management was brought together again under one roof after 60 years. The technical tasks of the Office for Electricity and Port Construction , the administrative tasks of the Office for Ports, Services and Economic Infrastructure as well as property management of the port properties have been bundled in the Hamburg Port Authority . As an institution under public law , it was economically independent and can also perform sovereign tasks at the same time.
Port development plan 2025
In the port development plan published in 2012 entitled "Hamburg stays on course - the Hamburg port development plan until 2025 and its strategic port planning", the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the HPA, with the involvement of the port industry, trade unions and environmental associations, lay down the guidelines for the Port of Hamburg can maintain its competitive position in the long term and utilize growth potential. Another goal of port development is to sustainably secure jobs in the port, to create new ones and to increase the added value of the port in Hamburg.
See also
- Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA). Until 2005 its name was Hamburger Hafen- und Lagerhaus-Aktiengesellschaft . In 2007, HHLA split into two subgroups, Port Logistics and Real Estate , with retroactive effect from January 1, 2007 . On November 2, 2007, the port logistics division went public. Large parts of the shares are still owned by the City of Hamburg after the restructuring.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stadt Land Hafen (logistics magazine) 6/2013, p. 1 www.stadtlandhafen.de . See also dredger 'Odin'
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rom. 2 Order for the implementation of the Hamburg Roads Act of October 16, 1973 (Amtl. Anz. 1973, p. 1377, online ) in connection with the Hamburg Roads Act
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- ↑ All ships under one roof . In: Hansa , issue 8/2017, p. 76/77
- ↑ HPA press release of February 8, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2018
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamburg-mitte/neuwerk/article108238157/Neuwerk-Hamburgs-Aussenposten-im-Watt.html
- ↑ Sandra Engel, Sven Tode: Hafen Stadt Hamburg · From the Alster to the Elbe - port development in the flow of time . Hamburg 2007
- ↑ Sandra Engel, Sven Tode: Hafen Stadt Hamburg · From the Alster to the Elbe - port development in the flow of time . Hamburg 2007
- ↑ Sandra Engel, Sven Tode: Hafen Stadt Hamburg · From the Alster to the Elbe - port development in the flow of time . Hamburg 2007
- ↑ Port development plan until 2025. Accessed April 29, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.hamburg-port-authority.de
- ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation; Hamburg Port Authority: Hamburg stays on course · The port development plan until 2025 . Hamburg 2012
