Liege port

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Liege port
Data
operator various
Port type Inland port
Daily ship capacity 31 port areas
Total area of ​​the port 370 hectares
website http://www.portdeliege.be/de/
Geographic information
place Liege
region Walloon region
Country Belgium
Port de Monsin entrance
Port de Monsin entrance
Coordinates 50 ° 39 '36 "  N , 5 ° 38' 10"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '36 "  N , 5 ° 38' 10"  E
Port of Liege (Belgium)
Liege port
Location Port of Liège

The Port of Liege (fr: P ort A utonome de L iège , PAL ) is an inland port in the region of Liège on the Meuse and the Albert Canal .

The port, founded in 1937, is an institution of the Belgian state . It now comprises 29 individual harbors on an area of ​​around 358 hectares with 24 km of quays between the villages of Lanaye (municipality of Visé ) and the leisure harbor at Statte in the municipality of Huy over a distance of around 50 km along the Meuse and the Albert Canal. In the province of Liège, twelve municipalities are affected by the port of Liège.

structure

A basin of the port of Liège
Petro port of Liège
Covered pool with the Union Elisabeth ship

In 2014, 13.3 million tons were transported to the port by river. Together with the handling of railways and trucks , the port recorded a total handling of 20.1 million tons in 2005. The port of Liège is one of the three largest European inland ports (by weight) after the Duisburg inland port and the port of Paris . The direct connection with Antwerp through the Albert Canal enables goods traffic in the large industrial region of Europe, in the Meuse basin and also in the Rhineland and Luxembourg .

In addition to the publicly managed port of Liège, there are some private ports in the Liège port complex.

In the Liège port complex, 14.2 million tons of a total of 20.1 million tons were handled on the water side in 2005, and 15.8 tons of a total of 21.2 tons on the water side in 2010.

Container handling

The multimodal Trilogiport container terminal on the Albert Canal has been part of DP World since summer 2014 . To the south there is the Liège container terminal (LCT) operated by Tercofin SA . At the end of 2018, these two terminal operators closed the joint venture DP World Liège Container Terminals SA , which intends to further expand the two terminals in cooperation.

The port is connected to the rail network of the Belgian state railways SNCB / NMBS, on which u. a. the freight transport is carried out with the subsidiary SNCB Logistics . Private logistics companies have branches in the port area and organize freight traffic by sea, rail and road (e.g. Magetra , Holcim Belgique ).

Cargo handling 2001–2010

  • Light blue = water-side envelope
  • Dark blue = landside envelope

structure

The ports of Liège in brief:

  • 21.1 million tons transported (water / rail / road) in 2010 (including 15 million tons by water)
  • 26 km of quays
  • 370 hectares of port area
  • 2 container terminals
  • a covered dock (1 ha)
  • a RoRo quay
  • Storage container for petroleum products (226,500 m³)
  • 70 warehouses with a total covered area of ​​around 15 hectares
  • Grain silos with a total capacity of 50,000 m³
  • Marina (120 berths)
  • 10,670 direct and around 16,000 indirect jobs

Traffic routes

The port of Liège is located within the densest navigable waterway network in the world, in the large Rhine-Maas-Scheldt-Moselle basin (20,000 km). The port has three accesses to the sea:

  • The Albert Canal (length 129 km, 6 locks ) connects the port of Liège with the port of Antwerp and the Scheldt - Rhine connection . The Albert Canal represents only 8.2% of the Belgian river network (rivers and canals), i. H. 129 km of 1560 km. With a traffic of more than 30 million tonnes, it represents 30 to 40% of all Belgian river traffic.
  • The Meuse and the Juliana Canal provide the connection to the port of Rotterdam (distance 310 km, approx. 20 hours travel time).

Web links

Commons : Port of Liège  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiques 2006–2010 , Rapport annuel (extrait) , Liège, Port Autonome de Liège, 2012
  2. ^ Peter Kleinort: DP World: Trilogiport completely taken over . In: Daily port report of August 29, 2014, p. 13
  3. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Joint venture in Liège · DP World Liège Container Terminals SA starts operations . In: Daily port report of November 22, 2018, p. 13
  4. ^ SNCB Logistics
  5. ↑ http://www.citizenports.eu/de/658-2/612-2/