Having successfully launched its ‘Securing the Future’ project in 2009, the Executive Board of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is now extending it. Discussions with staff representatives started on 12 January 2010.

To the fore here is the restructuring of the group’s largest facility, HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB), which involves a comprehensive reshaping of the organization of work and processes. The new scheme can take advantage of the distinctly improved range of services at CTB. As part of a HHLA programme of modernization and expansion being maintained even during the economic crisis, during the first half of 2010 a new mega-containership berth, an automated block storage system and a recently developed, pioneering terminal operation system will be taken into service there.

Besides optimization of productivity and capacity management between CTB and HHLA Terminal Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT), which has not yet been completely modernized, and improvement of costs structure, the main theme of the discussions will be securing employment.

“In extending its ‘Securing the Future’ project, HHLA aims to further improve its range of services for customers and to boost its competitiveness,” said Klaus-Dieter Peters, Chairman of the HHLA Executive Board.

Source: Transportweekly