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We are Decarbonizing Heavy Duty logistics

Together for more sustainability.

We all have dif­fe­rent back­grounds, but are united in the cau­se: decar­bo­ni­s­ing port logi­stics with hydro­gen as a rene­wa­ble ener­gy source.

Georg Bött­ner, Mon­ja Gro­te, Karin Deba­cher, Jan­ne Oever­diek and Leif Cars­tens from left to right.

Georg Böttner

Georg Bött­ner star­ted as a lawy­er at HHLA in 2004 and repea­ted­ly took on many respon­si­ble tasks during his time at HHLA. For exam­p­le, he hea­ded the Legal and Insu­rance Depart­ment for five years, was Mana­ging Direc­tor of HCCR and CTB for a total of more than 7 years, and is now Head of Exe­cu­ti­ve Board Pro­jects respon­si­ble for New Busi­ness Deve­lo­p­ment and the hydro­gen project.

Karin Debacher

Karin Deba­cher star­ted as a pro­ject mana­ger at Ham­bur­ger Port Con­sul­ting GmbH HPC in 2015. The­re she mana­ged many dif­fe­rent inter­na­tio­nal pro­jects and four years later moved to HHLA in the Exe­cu­ti­ve Board Pro­jects and Busi­ness Deve­lo­p­ment divi­si­on. At HHLA, she has been in char­ge of the Hydro­gen divi­si­on sin­ce 2020.

Want to know more about the hydro­gen initia­ti­ves at HHLA?

Janne Oeverdiek

Jan­ne Oever­dieck began a dual stu­dy pro­gram­me to beco­me an indus­tri­al engi­neer at HHLA in 2018. After many assign­ments in various HHLA depart­ments and at the uni­ver­si­ty of appli­ed sci­en­ces, he com­ple­ted his stu­dies in March 2022. Sin­ce the begin­ning of 2021, he has been dri­ving for­ward HHLA’s hydro­gen initia­ti­ve, which is inves­ti­ga­ting and test­ing the con­ver­si­on of die­sel-powered ter­mi­nal equip­ment. The­se include the Clean Port and Logi­stics clus­ter and H2LOAD.

Are you inte­res­ted in con­ver­si­on or would you like to join our clus­ter with your company?”

Monja Grote

Mon­ja Gro­te has a degree in che­mi­cal engi­nee­ring with a spe­cia­li­sa­ti­on in che­mi­cal ener­gy sto­rage and in par­ti­cu­lar hydro­gen as an ener­gy car­ri­er. She has also been an inte­gral part of the hydro­gen team sin­ce Febru­ary 2022, focu­sing on the fea­si­bi­li­ty of the import and dis­tri­bu­ti­on projects. 

You have main­ly che­mi­cal ques­ti­ons about our cluster?

Leif Carstens

Leif has been in char­ge of the Clean Ports & Logi­stics Inno­va­ti­on Clus­ter tog­e­ther with Jan­ne Oever­diek sin­ce March 2023. As an envi­ron­men­tal sci­en­tist with a focus on the inter­faces bet­ween alter­na­ti­ve pro­pul­si­on tech­no­lo­gies and ener­gy sys­tems, he brings exten­si­ve expe­ri­ence as a pro­ject mana­ger in the field of elec­tro­mo­bi­li­ty and hydro­gen from major inter­na­tio­nal projects.

Are you inte­res­ted in con­ver­si­on or would you like to join our clus­ter with your company?”

We look forward to your questions

If you need more infor­ma­ti­on about the clus­ter for your com­pa­ny, you can down­load it here as a pdf or ask us directly.

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