The LHG - Company

The company "Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft mbH" (LHG) runs the public ports of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and is Germany's largest port operator in the Baltic Sea. Today, the LHG (founded 31 December 1934) is owned by the City of Lübeck (74,9%) and RREEF PAN-EUROPEAN INFRASTRUCTURE TWO LUX S.á r.l. (25,1%). LHG is providing jobs for about 1,050 employees. The Managing Directors are Mr. Hans-Gerd Gieleßen and Mr. Heinrich Beckmann.

• RoRo-handling of trucks and trailers
• Transhipment, storage, commissioning and distribution of forest products (paper and pulp)
• Shipping of export cars
• Container transhipment
• Passenger services
• Transhipment and storage of general cargo and bulk cargo (e. g. salt)
• Inspection, maintenance and repair of the motor pool, equipment and buildings of the LHG as well as other companies ( 100% LHG-subsidiary, the LHG Service-Company = SG)
• Transhipment of fruit, wood, steel and other bulk cargo, cleaning of containers, commissioning and delivery of groupage consignments using combined traffic (by 50% LHG-owned subsidiary Lübeck Distribution GmbH = LDG)
• Management consulting (currently 50.1% LHG-owned subsidiary ISL Baltic Consult).
• Europe-wide distribution of goods, specialized in forest products (100% subsidiary European Cargo Logistics mbH (ECL)
• Combined transport operation, booking agency and additional services regarding combined transport (50% LHG-owned subsidiary Baltic Rail Gate)

The Ports of Lübeck are the farthermost south-western transhipment hub located in the Baltic Sea and act as the central turntable especially for the traffic between the traditional economical metropolis in west- and central Europe and the fast developing economical region of the Baltic Sea. The overall cargo volume of the year 2008 totalled to a 31.7 million tons. The share of the LHG as operator of the public Ports of Lübeck amounted to 28.5 million tons. Additionally, about 360.000 passengers frequented the Ports of Lübeck.
The public ports operated by the LHG consist of five port parts with a total area of 170 hectares and 25 berths.

Europe's largest ferry-port, located in Lübeck-Travemünde, offers on a total of nine berths (three of them offering track links), 90 vessel arrivals and departures each week. The cargo volume amounted to 21.5 million tons in the year 2008. The largest part of the cargo consists of all kinds of rolling goods as trucks, trailers, export cars, railway traffic and containers, swap bodies and passenger-cars. The dispatch of bulk cargo is possible, too. A facility station for combined traffic is in use since 2003.

Details about Skandinavienkai

The Finland-centre of the Lübeck ports achieved a cargo volume of 3.3 million tons in the year 2008. With a total of five berths and a shed capacity of 150,000 m², the Nordlandkai terminal is the centre of distribution of the Finnish paper industry for the entire European hinterland. other goods handled are trucks, trailers, export cars and containers. Expanding-areas, allowing an immense increase of capacity, are just being revised.

Details about Nordlandkai

The multi-functional RoRo terminal for forest products, trucks, trailers, export cars and bulk cargo, achieved a turnover of 554 thousand tons in the year 2008. The Konstinkai terminal offers a shed capacity of 24,500 m².

Details about Konstinkai

Accomplished in 1994, this terminal is the leading European centre of distribution of the Swedish paper industry. The cargo volume in 2008 amounted to 1.7 million tons. The terminal has a shed capacity of 75,000 m².

Details about Schlutup

The new Terminal Seelandkai for the handling of containers and roro-cargo is in operation since summer 2006. LHG handles on an area of 18,5 hectares trailers, new cars and containers. Containers can be loaded/unloaded with crane bridges. In 2008 the cargo handling volume was 1.5 million tons.

Details about Seelandkai

One of the most important factors for the success of the  largest German port at the Baltic Sea (market share > 40%) is the extremely dense departure rate of the liner services. The Ports of Lübeck offer about 150 departures per week from and to 25 partner ports around the entire Baltic Sea. The traffics of each destination are almost completely balanced, so that the freight capacities of both the vessels and the means of transport for the hinterland traffic are optimally working at full capacity. This means crucial cost advantages for the shippers compared to alternative routes of transport.

Additionally, the Lübeck ports offer all advantages of a logistic centre, with the highest level of quality and know-how, especially concerning forest products such as paper and pulp. Lübeck is the largest transhipment and distribution centre for the Swedish and Finnish paper industry in Europe. 4.3 million tons cargo volume of forest products was achieved in the year 2008 in Lübeck.

The strength of Lübeck is the roll-on-roll-off traffic (RoRo): fast cargo, rolling on and off the vessels by truck, cassettes or railway wagons. Tailormade logistic systems guarantee the optimum service for the clients at 365 days of the year. Lübeck is the largest German container port in the Baltic Sea, handling more than 200,000 container-units per year.

The location of the Ports of Lübeck offers high-class hinterland-connections. The three-lane motorway "A1" in direction of Hamburg connects Lübeck with the main economic centres in Europe. The rail net offers an especially high efficiency in the carload traffic as well as in the combined traffic. In addition, the Elbe-Lübeck-Canal provides a link to the European "inland waterways" network.

The number of workplaces at the ports of Lübeck has continuously increased during the past years. In the year 2008, the LHG had more than 1,050 employees. A total amount of about 6,000 jobs are directly port related.