The port of Bremerhaven in Germany is set to benefit from around EUR1.35 billion (USD1.57 billion) of investment from the country’s defence budget.
These funds will be used to upgrade Bremerhaven’s quays, technical facilities, work boats, properties and transport connections, as well as the energy infrastructure, digitalisation projects and other performance-boosting measures at the port.
Admitting that these funds are primarily in response to continued Russian aggression against Ukraine, Robert Howe, managing director of bremenports, said: “They [the funds] are intended to enable us to use our ports to strengthen our defence capabilities in an emergency. But at the same time, the civilian handling areas in Bremerhaven in particular benefit enormously.”
Howe continued: “With the measures now possible, we can make the ports resilient and bring them to a new level technologically – this ensures that we are able to cope with both global trade flows and the geopolitical challenges of the coming decades – and not only in terms of defence capability.”
In August 2025, HLPFI reported that BLG Logistics had taken delivery of a new LHM 550 mobile harbour crane at the Bremerhaven car terminal.
