Bremerhaven lives from the water, but not only from container handling. Containers and vehicles move across the terminals, and in the fishing port a food industry has grown up that processes fish and frozen food and supplies retailers and large-scale caterers. For producers and wholesalers in this environment, a B2B shop is an ordering channel for restaurants, canteens and specialist trade: with customer prices, minimum quantities, delivery days and chilled shipping. Buyers want to know what arrives when — and expect the shop to know the same prices as the field sales team. An interface that stops overnight shows up here the next morning at the loading bay.
The port city is also a centre of science. Institutes for polar, marine and fisheries research work here, alongside Hochschule Bremerhaven with its maritime and technical degree programmes. Their websites are publishing platforms: projects, publications, vacancies and events in German and English, maintained by many editors. At the other end are the Havenwelten with the Klimahaus and the German Emigration Center, which draw visitors from all over Germany. Hotels, restaurants and leisure businesses need sites that work on a smartphone and do not buckle during the school holidays.
For food producers and wholesalers from Bremerhaven we build B2B shops on Shopware 6. Customer-specific prices, volume tiers and minimum order quantities come from the ERP, order cut-off times and delivery days follow your delivery rounds, and orders go back into the merchandise management without retyping. For restaurants and canteens we set up quick ordering and order lists, so nobody has to click through categories every week. Businesses that supply a major customer through its procurement system we connect via OCI or punch-out. After go-live we remain responsible: updates of the 6.7 line are tested on a staging copy, interfaces and the message queue are monitored, and the response time is governed by an SLA with four tiers from 24 to 2 hours.
A research institute publishes expedition reports, project pages and vacancies in two languages, the university maintains degree programmes and dates, a venue in the Havenwelten its exhibitions and opening hours — each with many editors from different departments. TYPO3 is made for sites of this kind: several websites and languages in one installation, permissions per department, approval before publication. We build portals like these for Bremerhaven on TYPO3 v14 LTS and take over existing installations. If a site still runs on v12 or older, we plan the upgrade with an extension analysis and a test environment; from v12 the documented route goes via v13. Under a maintenance contract we check security bulletins on the day of publication and keep PHP, extensions and backups up to date.
Oldenburg and Bremerhaven are just over an hour apart by car, usually through the Weser Tunnel. Kick-off, workshops with sales or editorial teams and sign-offs take place in Bremerhaven by arrangement; development happens in Oldenburg, visible to you on a staging environment. Hosting runs on our own Proxmox servers in the data centre in Falkenstein, operated by the same people who built the shop. You can reach us Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0 — if you need standby cover for weekend trade, you agree it in the SLA.