Who we are
About H.D. Cotterell
What does a quartermaster actually do? He doesn’t buy goods, he doesn’t trade goods, no – he stores, inspects, maintains, protects, weighs and knows a wide variety of goods! The profession of quartermaster is a traditional one in the port industry – and this is also true in the expanding Port of Hamburg. And as a traditional company, H.D. Cotterell is always up to date!
From 1890 to the present day, H.D. Cotterell has continued to develop in an innovative and visionary manner. However, our range of services, i.e. our core competencies, have remained unchanged for over 130 years:
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Control, Storage
Shipping, Quality Assurance
We are happy to answer any questions you may have about our services by telephone.
Hamburg Harbour
Office and Storage Areas
Our main office is located at Ellerholzdamm 38. In addition to our warehouses on Ellerholzdamm, we currently have four other locations with a total storage area of approximately 100,000 m².
16 Halls of Storage Space
High-quality products
How to find us
The other locations
Shed 48 A/B
At O’Swaldkai, we operate two warehouses, each with 10,000 m² of space for bulk cocoa beans.
Due to its immediate proximity to the Unikai terminal, this warehouse has a very good location advantage, allowing mega bulkers carrying raw cocoa to be unloaded at this site.
Vollhöfner Weiden 15
We have a total of two warehouses with a storage area of 20,000 m² at our Vollhöfener Weiden site. The warehouses are located in Altenwerder West. The location is ideal, as the warehouses are in the immediate vicinity of the largest terminals such as Eurogate, Burchardkai and Altenwerder. This allows us to avoid the Köhlbrandbrücke traffic bottleneck.
Here we can meet the highest demands in terms of storage capacity and handling speed. In addition to the hall space, the halls offer us a large open operational area.
We use one warehouse exclusively for storing bulk cocoa, while the other two warehouses are used to store cocoa beans in sacks. We have been operating this warehouse complex as a customs warehouse since 2011. All warehouses are also ICE – London approved.
Neuhöfer Brückenstraße 8
Since early 2013, the logistics complex Am Genter Ufer, with a total area of 10,000 m² divided into four sections, has been our most modern location. Each section of this complex has six container ramps at its disposal. Like the warehouse in Vollhöfner Weiden, which is located in the immediate vicinity, we have good connections to the terminals for high handling speeds. This temperature-controlled logistics complex is primarily used to store cocoa products, dried fruit and latex.
Brandenburger Straße 15
In Brandenburgerstraße, we operate three warehouses, A, B and C, with a total area of approx. 11,000 m². Warehouse C is ICE London and CME Europe approved. We store cocoa beans in bulk/sacks and cocoa products in this warehouse complex.
extensive experience
Professional all-round service
Please take a look at our range of services and the goods we have stored and protected to date on the following pages.
OUR Team
Our most important Asset
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H. D. Cotterell is a family-run stevedoring company based in the Port of Hamburg. As one of Germany’s leading companies for warehouse logistics and forwarding of raw cocoa and semi-finished cocoa products, we currently manage approx. 100,000 square metres of storage space and serve an international clientele with our team of approx. 60 employees. H.D. Cotterell considers it its responsibility to use its resources more sustainably and protect the environment through the use of modern technologies. As a necessary consequence, H.D. Cotterell calculates its carbon footprint annually in order to measure its savings.
Sustainable
To reduce our CO2 emissions, we have made the following technical changes to date:
- Complete conversion of our vehicle fleet to electric cars. The proportion of electric vehicles currently stands at 75%.
- Use of green electricity (e.g. to charge our electric forklifts and electric wheel loaders).
- Installation of our first photovoltaic system (e.g. for charging our electric cars)
- Replacement of conventional wheel loaders with electric wheel loaders
In addition, we participate in the following programmes:
- Preparation of an annual CO2 company balance sheet by natureOffice
- Offsetting our CO2 consumption through the climate protection project ‘Tropical Mix’ by natureOffice
- Partner of the UmweltPartnerschaft Hamburg
- Donation for a protective forest in Panama
