Erich Staake
Erich Staake: Moderniser of Inland port logistics
Erich Staake (*1953) can claim to have led inland port logistics into a new era. On the basis of the logport concept, he reinvented the Port of Duisburg as a multimodal logistics center and turned it into the largest inland port in Europe and an international benchmark. He not only made a significant contribution to advancing the network concept and the integrated logistics approach, but also impressively demonstrated how logistics strengthen the economic power and quality of life of an entire region.
| Field | Logistics Services, Automotive Logistics |
| Country | Germany |
| Current position | Chairman of the Executive Board Duisburger Hafen AG |
| Born | 09.10.1953 in Hildesheim, Germany |
| Induction into the Logistics Hall of Fame | 2019 |
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Merits
- Erich Staake was born on October 9, 1953 in Hildesheim. The business graduate worked as a manager at Preussag, the Philipp Holzmann construction group, Wella and Bertelsmann. There he built up the private TV station RTL as managing director. Since 1999 he has been Chairman of the Executive Board of Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) and Chairman of the Management Boards of several subsidiaries as well as Honorary Consul of Belgium.
- Erich Staake can claim to have led inland port logistics into a new era. On the basis of his logport concept, he reinvented the Port of Duisburg as a multimodal logistics centre and turned it into the largest inland port in Europe and an international benchmark. Thus, the manager has not only significantly advanced logistics itself, but has also impressively demonstrated how logistics strengthens the economic power and quality of life of an entire region. A total of 50,000 jobs, 7,000 directly in the port, have been created over the past 20 years
- The manager started a new era on the 265-hectare site of the disused Krupp steel mill in Duisburg-Rheinhausen between fall 1998 and spring 1999. His concept of redeveloping the industrial wasteland and establishing it as a multimodal logistics location began with the opening of logport Logistic-Center Duisburg GmbH in 1998. The mission of this marketing company was to transform the newly acquired Krupp-site into a logistic service center under the name "logport 1". The success story on 371 football fields began. The fact that logport 1 had already been fully booked in 2012, eight years before schedule, exceeded all expectations. logport 2 to 6 and the development of Mercator Island followed.
- The former bulk port is now the largest inland port in Europe. Within only 20 years, 300 companies have established themselves in the port area and with 50,000 directly and indirectly created jobs, 17,000 of them in Duisburg, the logport concept is among the greatest successes of the structural change in the Ruhr area.
- Erich Staake was the main driving force behind this exemplary success. The networker has made the port an international benchmark for modern inland port logistics through intensive cooperation between business, politics and science, combined with thinking in value chains. He recognised the potential of the booming contract logistics sector early on and specialised in value-added services. He transformed the traditional port administration into a logistics hub of superlatives with the best multimodal transport connections to the European backcountry and seaports, adding his own rail services, container handling facilities and a wide range of services from labour recruitment to facility management and packaging. Today, managers from all over the world travel to Duisburg to inform themselves about the concept.
- Erich Staake is the mastermind behind this exemplary success. The networker has made the port an international benchmark for modern inland port logistics through intensive cooperation between business, politics and science, combined with thinking in value chains. He recognised the potential of the booming contract logistics sector early on and specialised in value-added services. He transformed the traditional port administration into a logistics hub of superlatives with the best multimodal transport connections to the European backcountry and seaports, in addition with rail services, container handling facilities and a wide range of services from labour recruitment to facility management and packaging. Today, managers from all over the world travel to Duisburg to inform themselves about the concept.
- Staake is also committed to innovation and sustainability: the mastermind opened a 3D printing centre in the harbour in 2018. Together with the logistics companies at the location, he is pushing concepts to shift more than 100,000 truck transports from road to rail and inland waterway each year, or to develop solar films for electrically powered transport systems in order to use up to ten million square meters of facade and roof space in Duisburg Harbor to produce energy. With "startport", he has also created a highly regarded innovation platform for young founders in industry and logistics.
- For many years Staake has also been pioneering the expansion of the new Silk Road, officially the "Belt-and-Road" initiative. It spans about 11,000 kilometers by land between Duisburg with its 500,000 inhabitants and the metropolis of Chongqing in central China with more than 30 million inhabitants.
- Offices and mandates (excerpt): Erich Staake heads the management of several duisport subsidiaries and is an honorary Belgian consul. He is also a member of the Initiativkreis Ruhr, member of the advisory board of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik, member of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Bank AG and chairman of the supervisory board of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG, deputy chairman of the Latin America Committee of German Business (LADW), former BDI Brazil Board, member of the senate of acatech - Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, member of the board of the Nah- und Mittelost-Verein e. V. (Near and Middle East Association).
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Gala Reception 2019 Video
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Gala Reception 2019 Gallery
Photos: LHOF/Sebastian Gabsch
