The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is a commercially oriented institution under public law. With a total workforce of 1,900 employees, it manages all duties related to the area of the port of Hamburg.

Among these duties are port planning and port develop-ment, maintenance of the port infrastructure, guaranteeing the required fairway depths as well as ensuring the safety of navigation. The institution is in charge of around 300 km of rail tracks, 147 bridges, 140 km of roads and 55 km of quay walls as well as tunnels, locks and lighthouses.

The HPA offers its customers an all-purpose port, located 120 km far into the inland, with competitive site advantages. It is the owner of most of the port land and leases it out to enterprises of the port industry on a long-term basis.

When performing the duties, the management of the HPA takes care to strike a balance between ecology and econo-my. The port disposes of excellent hinterland connections, whereby the modal-split share of cargo moved by rail and inland waterway carriers is growing.

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As of: 23.11.2010

Management Board

Port Coordinator

International Affairs

Marketing/Communication

Strategy

KnowledgeManagement

Corporate andPort Development

Tidal Elbe and Hydrology Division

Fairway Adjustment

Steinwerder Container Terminal Expansion Project

Water Pollution Control Officer and Environ-mental Protection

Engineering Office –Development Projects

Development Projects

Port Infrastructure

Port Railway Finance andReal Estate

Services

Management OfficeHuman Resources – Special Tasks: Disability Management (Corporate Re-Integration Management)

Harbour Master´s Division

Legal Services and Committees

Internal Revision

Waterside Infrastructure

Landside Infrastructure

Port Technology

Railway Facility and Railway OperationsManagement

Railway Technology

Development/SalesManagement

Financial accounting

Controlling

Real Estate Management

Central PurchaseProcess Management

Occupational Safety

Company Physician

Confidant of theSeverely DisabledPeople

Social Counselling

Data Protection

Office Services

Human Resources

IT

Staff Council

Port planning and development

Expansion and maintenance of the port infrastructure

Maintenance of the port water bodies

Sovereign duties:Maintaining the required shipping channel depthsEnsuring the naviga-tional safety of vessel traffi cFlood protection

LANDTotal port land 7,155 haTotal land area 4,198 haTotal water area 2,957 haTotal Freihafen (Free Port) area 1,634 haPort expansion area 833 ha

WATERFRONT STRUCTURESPublic fl ood protection line 30 kmPrivate fl ood protection walls 100 kmWaterfront structures 160 km

PORT RAILWAYRailroad switches ca. 880Railway Tracks ca. 300 km

BRIDGE/LOCK CONSTRUCTIONTotal number of bridges 142of which e.g.Port railway bridges 61 Road bridges 56 Movable bridges 10

MORE FACTS & FIGURES 132 km of public roads in the port of Hamburg

302 traffi c structures designed by transport engineering

52 km of wharves

320 ocean-going vessel berths,of which 38 are giant vessel berths

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