Management
Holger Banik has been Spokesman of the Management Board of Niedersachsen Ports since January 2014 and is responsible for the commercial and administrative area in the joint leadership. Holger Banik has also been Managing Director of JadeWeserPort Realisierungs GmbH & Co. KG. The business graduate had previously worked at the Bremen port management company bremenports GmbH & Co. KG since 2007, where he had been Commercial Managing Director since 2011.
Holger Banik studied business administration in Marburg and Giessen. Between 1996 and 2007, he gained extensive experience in rail freight transport in various functions and locations at Deutsche Bahn AG. His positions included Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer, Head of Controlling at the Hanover/Bremen branch, Head of Commercial Affairs at the Hamburg branch and Head of Planning and Reporting at the head office in Mainz. In 2007, he moved to the port management company bremenports GmbH & Co. KG.
Volker Weiß has been Technical Managing Director of Niedersachsen Ports since October 2022. Since August 2016, he has been in charge of the Emden branch, NPorts' largest location with around 200 employees.
Prior to this, the civil engineering graduate (Technical University of Braunschweig) had been working at the newly founded JadeWeserPort Entwicklungsgesellschaft since 2002, where his responsibilities included preparing approval documents and planning the landside transport connections for the deep-water container port. He played an active role in shaping the "JadeWeserPort" project. From 2009, he worked as Technical Manager at JadeWeserPort Logistics Zone GmbH & Co. KG and took over the management of the areas of settlement, planning, development and property management in 2014. He later continued these tasks at JadeWeserPort Realisierungs GmbH & Co. KG.
