As a growing city requires more space, but the increasing traffic of larger container ships poses a challenge for the port located directly within the city. Meeting climate targets also requires carbon and emissions-free operation. Despite this, the port’s location provides opportunities for creative solutions to satisfy all stakeholders.
Key Challenge
How can we contribute to an active innovation ecosystem and work together to address the challenge of skills shortages in order to adapt port operations to the needs and demands of the future, taking into account the needs of local residents and environmental concerns?
Realised Experiments
- HPA has developed its first service offer as an interactive scavenger hunt and company tour called “Discovery.Hamburg”, which is guided digitally via an app.
- Under the umbrella of "Deep Dive Discovery", Discovery.Hamburg aims to bring maritime and logistics innovators together with talents in order to actively tackle the shared challenges of the skills shortage.
- By organising different tours, HPA is continuously expanding their user base in the community and at the same time gaining valuable insights for the further development of the original service offering.
Discovery Tour Scavenger Hunt: Showing trainees, students & young professionals the innovative & modern facets of the Port and its local companies.
Latest News
Find out more about the pilot area in our latest Project News.
On 7 May 2025, Hamburg’s HafenCity turned into an interactive stage for maritime innovation and career exploration as part of the German Shipping Day.
Discovery.Hamburg-Tour is part of the pilot area homePORT Hamburg. The app-based Tour takes place in form of a digital scavenger hunt through the Port of Hamburg.
Hardly a seat was left at the Connected River workshop, which took place on 4th of July at the maritime tech festival “HOMECOMING homePORT ” in Hamburg.
We want to look to the future with innovative new ideas: The end of 2023 marked a turning point for homePORT Hamburg. With the closure of its physical location at the old Elbtunnel, homePORT is taking a bold step towards a more dynamic & user-centric direction
Following the kick-off meeting of Connected River, Hamburg Port Authority organized a stakeholder workshop to identify the needs for the homePORT adaptation process. The aim of the workshop was to collect the most important issues and trends affecting the port or the ones that are missing.
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