We would like to officially welcome you at this years Hamburg International Conference of Logistics. The Conference Chairs will say a few words to the history of the conference, this years topics and the organization during the conference. We are delighted that Prof. Andreas Wieland from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) will join us for a Keynote on "The role of supply chain management in an era of ecological crises". Supply chains are both driving and suffering from the ongoing ecological crises. For example, most human-made emissions can be located somewhere in a supply chain. This provides a huge responsibility and new opportunities for supply chain research and practice. This keynote discusses harmful supply chain practices and opportunities for making these practices less harmful.