Hessen Logistics – the network for the logistics and transport industry

The increasing complexity of logistics services is leading to fragmented value chains involving a wide variety of stakeholders. Many stakeholders only have a partial understanding of the complexity of transport chains, and there is a growing lack of a knowledge base for understanding the upstream and downstream links of the transport chain.

The Hessen Logistics cluster provides companies (especially SMEs), universities, research institutions, and start-ups with numerous networking opportunities along logistics value chains. Through events and deep dives, the cluster promotes knowledge transfer and exchange between stakeholders and experts from various disciplines, sparking new ideas for cluster members.

A lack of knowledge can make logistics systems vulnerable to disruption, as complex systems react with delays to global challenges and transformation processes, thus creating significant disadvantages in the face of global cut-throat competition. Hessen Logistics leverages existing synergies between stakeholders and builds sustainable synergies between them to promote innovative solutions.

Hessen Logistics’ activities can be grouped into three categories:

• Networking and knowledge transfer
  – Our network connects companies, from corporations to SMEs and start-ups, universities and research institutions
  – Hessen Logistics forms part of HOLM’s organisation and infrastructure: meaning that cluster partners can easily use event spaces at an extremely attractive location
  – Members can take part in various event and networking formats that enable thematic, interdisciplinary dialogue on selected key topics in logistics
  – Hessen Logistics works together with other cluster initiatives from Hessen and Germany and regularly shares ideas in the German Logistics Initiatives Working Group
  – Hessen Logistics works closely with the Hessen Mobility and Hessen Aviation clusters, for instance, to organise joint Cluster@HOLM events
• Marketing and public relations work
  – Hessen Logistics organises joint booths in Hesse and enables its partners to concentrate on their core business at trade fairs: making valuable business contacts and concluding business deals
  – Members of Hessen Logistics benefit from exclusive terms
  – Hessen Logistics is present at leading international trade fairs, such as transport logistic in Munich and Hypermotion in Frankfurt, and also takes part in many other industry events
• Project initiation
  – Advisory services within the scope of promoting innovation at HOLM
  – Support with the search for cooperation partners and project ideas within the Hessen Logistics and HOLM GmbH network