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■ DIGITAL DECADE
The Old
Warehouse
District is the
cradle for
future logistics
Digital Hub Logistics sees itself as a marketplace of ideas for the logistics industry – and not just in Ham- burg.
Since its launch in August 2017, the company, which is part of the Germany-wide De:Hub-initiative, is to become a point of contact for companies thrilled by innovations, as well as trailblazers and founders from and for the logistics industry.
ENTERPRISES, POLITICS, START-UPS
AND SCIENCE
Innovations in process, product and business mod- els are being driven ahead by students and political stakeholders in the heart of Hamburg’s Warehouse District, Speicherstadt. The different segments of logistics meet up on 1,200 square metres of co-work- ing space. Large, established corporations, SMEs, education and research, capital providers and start- ups are meeting and networking on one site to boost the pace of digital transformation in the logistics sector. For instance, start-ups in maritime logistics are working alongside new companies in the area of city logistics, or intralogistics. Interplay here of ‘cor- porates’ such as HHLA, DHL, Ingenics, Dakosy, Volkswagen Group Logistics, Gebrüder Heinemann and Auerbach Shipping facilitated implementation of 40 projects in 2019. These ranged from commis- sions, to orders for joint prototypes, to investments in start-ups.
However much the stakeholders may vary in size and logistics specialization, Digital Hub Logistics as an eco-system is based on the fact that all partners, start-ups and their stakeholders, including Logistics Initiative Hamburg as well as BWVI – the German Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation, are inspired by real challenges and the idea of creat- ing new, innovative and competitive products and
services.
FRESH IDEAS IN OLD PREMISES
Its cornerstone is a physical space – the co-working are- as on St. Annenufer in Speicherstadt. Around 80 events per year are held on these premises. These serve to hatch new initia- tives and specific ideas for projects, or simply to foster encounters over drinks and snacks. A host of different events take place at the Hub, some logistics-driven, some less so. Commis- sioned by BWVI, during the 2019 Hamburg Port Birthday the Graphmasters start-up achieved a worldwide logis- tics masterstroke in combin- ing navigation and bottle- neck avoidance. Last summer, guest digitalization expert Christoph Keese used experience of other sectors to explain to the
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