Tschentscher presents guidelines for Hamburg port policy

CAPTION: Tschentscher presents guidelines for Hamburg port policy. (picture alliance / Laci Perenyi)

Peter Tschentscher, the mayor of the northern German city state of Hamburg, has presented the guidelines for a new Hamburg port policy to the Übersee-Club, which serves as a meeting place for the city's business, political, and academic elites. "The central objective of the new port policy is to maintain Hamburg as a large, efficient, universal port and thus to ensure that Germany has good and flexible access to the world market independently of other countries," the politician, who is a member of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), said in a keynote speech on Wednesday evening, which marked the start of a series of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the long-established Übersee-Club. The city government, the Senate, plans to present the new port development plan this year.

Tschentscher said that the port could help to advance the transition to renewable energies, climate protection and environmental protection, secure value creation, jobs and tax revenues, guarantee supplies to Germany even in times of crisis and anchor innovations and future technologies in Hamburg. The goal is not to make Hamburg the largest port in Europe, he added. The goal, he said, must be for it to become the most modern, digital, and sustainable port in Europe.

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