New Head Office for GL
During the past three weeks, the Hamburg staff of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) – numbering more than 1,600 – have moved to the new Head Office at Brooktorkai 18 in Hamburg’s HafenCity district. With this relocation, the company is bringing fourteen separate sites in Hamburg together all under the same roof.
At its new Head Office, the globally active technical assurance and consulting company and ship classification society will concentrate and focus its business segments Maritime Services, Oil & Gas and Renewables. The relocation symbolises the bringing together of the three business segments. The new Head Office offers a bright and airy office landscape with a fine view of the Elbe river and the Speicherstadt warehouse district. The modern, sophisticated working environment permits a further optimization of the workflow and offers varied opportunities for enhanced interdisciplinary teamwork. As a result, the growing requirements of the worldwide GL clientele can be addressed in a more individual and flexible manner. This is all the more important in view of the fact that GL has greatly expanded its service portfolio through a large number of acquisitions over the past few years.
In the course of 2009 alone, the GL Group was augmented by the maritime advisory and software companies Friendship Consulting GmbH and Friendship Systems GmbH as well as the British inspection and consulting firms Noble Denton (oil & gas) and Garrad Hassan (renewables). In February 2010, GL Noble Denton was presented as the new oil and gas brand of Germanischer Lloyd. The telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses will remain the same.