Rostock harbor

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Rostock harbor
Logo of the port of Rostock
Data
UN / LOCODE DE RSK
owner Rostock Port GmbH
operator Rostock Port GmbH
Port type seaport
Throughput 27.2 million t (2019 across all systems), of
which 25.7 million t in the overseas port
website www.rostock-port.de
Geographic information
place Rostock
country Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 8 '52 "  N , 12 ° 6' 55"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '52 "  N , 12 ° 6' 55"  E
Rostock port (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Rostock harbor
Location Rostock port

BW

Three cruise ships at the passenger quay - 2 ferries on the Unterwarnow

The port of Rostock (internationally also Rostock Port ) is a large German port on the Baltic Sea , it is located on the Unterwarnow in the area of ​​the city of Rostock . Most of the port infrastructure is owned by Rostock Port GmbH (until 2016: Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH "HERO"), a joint venture between the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (25.1%) and the Hanseatic City of Rostock (74.9%). The port operations are carried out by Euroports Germany GmbH & Co. KG and other private companies. With a total throughput of 28.8 million tons (2017), the ports of Rostock are fourth among the largest German ports (after Hamburg , Bremen / Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven ).

The ports of Rostock include the Rostock seaport located on the east side of the Unterwarnow (the "Überseehafen" built since the 1960s), the chemical port for Yara located east of it at Breitling , the independent freight and fishing port (RFH) in Marienehe an der West side of the Unterwarnow, the cruise terminal at the passenger quay in Warnemünde and other smaller facilities such as the Maritime Industrial Park (MAGEB) in Groß Klein and the quay of Alba Nord (MAB) north of the RFH and the Rostock city port , where goods are no longer handled.

Port facilities

On the east bank of the Unterwarnow and on the south bank of the Breitling are the extensive facilities of the Rostock seaport ("Überseehafen"). This port has three docks at four piers, an oil port and a chemical port. From the ferry terminal, ferries run to Gedser ( Denmark ), Trelleborg ( Sweden ) (partly as a train ferry ) and Travemünde . A total of 47  berths of various sizes are available. Ships up to 300 m in length, 45 m in width and 13.0 m in draft can dock at the largest . The port has extensive rail connections to the Rostock Seehafen train station of the Deutsche Bahn and a direct motorway connection to the A 19 . The terminal for combined transport , which is operated by Rostock Trimodal GmbH , is located in the southern area . In 2019, 87,000 loading units were handled here, 11½% more than in the previous year. The port is connected by pipelines to the PCK refinery in Schwedt and the central German chemical site in Böhlen .

The passenger quay with the cruise terminal Warnemünde Cruise Port is located on the Neuer Strom / See Canal in Warnemünde . This port offers eight berths of different sizes and can be used by cruise ships up to a length of 355 m and a draft of 8.53 m. In 2019/2020 a further cruise terminal building was built at berths P7 and P8. On the other hand, the facilities of the jetty for the rail ferries between Warnemünde and Gedser north of the Warnemünde train station were dismantled in 2014.

Wood loading at the Rostock fishing and freight port (RFH)

The city ​​port , which was Rostock's main port in earlier centuries, no longer plays a role in port handling, it is mainly used by excursion boats, sport shipping ( Rostock city boat harbor and museum harbor in the Haedgehafen ) and local shipping. Ships with a draft of up to 6.4 m can call at the city harbor. The corporate headquarters of the Deutsche Seereederei (DSR) is located on the silo peninsula of the city port .

The Rostock Freight and Fishing Port (RFH) is located in the Marienehe district , and can be used by ships up to 180 m in length and 8 m in draft, and handled 880,000 t in 2019 (2018: 970,000 t, 2017: 1.17 million . t, ​​2016: 1.15 million t). Mainly wood and fertilizers are handled here.

On the south shore of Breitlings the private port (chemistry port) of is Yara International , the tanker can begin to 8.45 m draft. A pipeline runs from there to the YARA plant in Poppendorf.

On the west bank of the Unterwarnow, between Marienehe and Groß Klein, the port facilities MAB-Kai (max. 5.79 m draft, scrap handling) and the Maritime Industrial Park Groß Klein (MAGEB) (max. 6.4 m draft) are located.

In Warnemünde there are the shipyards of the Neptun and Aker Warnow shipyards as well as the traditional port of the cutter fishermen in the Alter Strom .

At the Schmarl pier is the traditional Frieden ship . This ship is home to the Rostock Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum and is itself the largest exhibit. When MS  Dresden was built in 1956/1957 at the Warnow shipyard in Warnemünde , it was part of the first series of 10,000 tdw ships that were laid down in the GDR . The lead ship of this series was the MS  Frieden . In addition to the traditional ship , the museum also includes the steam tug Saturn , the concrete ship Capella and the floating crane Langer Heinrich .

In September 2017, construction of a new grain terminal began.

history

Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker at the opening of the Überseehafen on April 30, 1960
The GDR special postage stamp for the commissioning of the high sea port shows a 10,000 t cargo ship of the "Peace" type
Tugboat as Icebreaker (1985)
Loading work in the overseas port (1983)

The history of the Rostock port goes back to the Middle Ages , especially during the Hanseatic League , the port was an important hub for trade with Scandinavia and the Baltic States . With the decline of the Hanseatic League, the port lost its importance. The relocation of (world) trade to the area of ​​the Mediterranean and the Atlantic , connected with the discovery of America and the sea ​​route to India , led to the descent of the port. After a brief boom due to grain exports in the middle of the 19th century, it was only of local importance.

At the change from the 19th to the 20th century, a modest port expansion began. Under the leadership of the city and port construction director Kerner, the port was expanded to the west, the coal quay and the Haedgehafen were built. The port received the first modern port crane and crane bridges for handling coal. At the same time the construction was in the course of railway - ferry from Warnemünde to Gedser as part of the axis Copenhagen - Berlin greatly improved the access road to the port of Rostock. In Warnemünde, the New Stream was created as a wider and, above all, better passable entrance to the Rostock harbor. The fairway in the port was deepened to 4.1 m to 6.7 m, so that the ships common in the Baltic Sea at that time could now call at the port without any problems. In the years up to the First World War , the quayside facilities at the Eschenbrücke and Kehrwieder were built west of the Haedgehafen . The New Land in the east of the port was planned as an expansion area for the Holzhafen and the Osthafen expansion area was prepared on the eastern bank of the Unterwarnow . The outbreak of war in August 1914 initially put an end to all expansion plans.

In the years before the Second World War , the development of the aircraft industry also gave the port an upswing, albeit a small one. As part of the Nazi government's Reich Storage Program , modern grain silos and a new oil mill were built on the Silo Peninsula in the 1930s . During the war, the Allied air raids, which were primarily aimed at the aircraft industry and the residential areas of Rostock, also hit and damaged the port.

The division of Germany made it necessary to build an efficient seaport on the East German Baltic coast . In 1950 Walter Ulbricht had also stated: “We examined the project of an ocean port on the Baltic coast and came to the conclusion that we should refrain from building a new ocean port, as we are convinced that the time will come when the foreign trade of a democratic Germany will again Ports of Hamburg and Lübeck are available. Until then, based on an agreement with the Polish government, we will use part of the Polish port of Szczecin for our deep-sea fleet. ”However, this decision was quickly revised. After examining several options, the decision was made in favor of the Rostock overseas port .

As early as 1951 the press reported on the first construction work in Rostock. "Large excavators are at work in Rostock and are creating the most powerful sea port in our republic." However, there were significant delays in construction as a result. The New Germany wrote in 1957: “So far, some of the tasks of the centrally managed industry have not been fulfilled because the cooperation with the districts has been poor. The involvement of the local organs was neglected. Now that is being changed. [...] For example, shipping was previously planned by departments, which has led to a delay in the expansion of our deep sea ports. Only now is there a uniform plan that corresponds to the plan for economic development in the Rostock district. "

The new port was opened on April 30, 1960 and operated by the VEB Seehafen Rostock . The port became the home port of the ships of the Deutsche Seereederei (DSR) and was able to record a steady growth in throughput until 1989, mainly through bulk goods.

With the German reunification , a repositioning of the port was necessary. The ferry traffic to Gedser (Denmark) , Trelleborg (Sweden) , Hanko (Finland) and the Baltic States was expanded . So-called ro - ro traffic (roll-on / roll-off) also gained a certain importance . The rail ferry service to Gedser has been abandoned, to Trelleborg it continues to decline: 2017: 14,564  wagons , 2016: 20,358. On the other hand, combined cargo traffic (KLV) is becoming increasingly important , for this purpose a KLV terminal is operated in the southern overseas port by Rostock Trimodal GmbH (RTM) with freight train connections to Verona , Basel , Karlsruhe and Duisburg, for example . In 2019, a total of 87,000 trailer units were handled in the RTM (2017: 80,288, 2016: 76,012, 2015: 69,824).

Cruise ship

AIDA administration in Rostock
Warnemünde Cruise Center (2016)

Rapidly in importance that took place in recent years cruise lines to which preferably at the 2005 newly opened cruise terminal Warnemünde Cruise Center in Warnemünde is handled. With 181 registered cruise ship calls in 2012, the previous year's figure of 2011 was exceeded with 158 calls (1st place in Germany). In 2013, a new Germany-wide record was set with 198 attempts. In the 2014 season there were 182 ship calls with 378,000 passengers, 170 of them in Warnemünde and twelve in the overseas port. During the 2015 season, there were 175 calls by 39 different cruise ships with 354,000 passengers, twelve of them again at the overseas port. More than 700,000 passengers (2014: 756,000) embarked and disembarked, most of whom were the same people. There were 132,000 embarking (2014: 131,000) and 131,000 disembarking (2014: 132,000) passengers, the number of “transit” passengers was 222,000 (2014: 239,000), so that Rostock had a total of around 485,000 cruise passengers (2014: 509,000) .

The port is used by some shipping companies as the starting and destination port for cruises, for example AIDA Cruises , Costa Crociere , Norwegian Cruise Line , Princess Cruises , and since 2014 also MSC Cruises . Many cruise tourists use Warnemünde as a starting point for excursions to Rostock , Berlin , Hamburg or Lübeck .

In the 2017 season there were 190 calls by 36 cruise ships, 173 of them in Warnemünde and 17 in the overseas port. In 2018 there were a total of 923,000 passengers with 206 ships calling by 44 ships.

economy

The number of ferry passengers in 2018 was 2.55 million (2017: 2.5 million, 2016: 2.3 million, 2015: 2.2 million, 2013: 1.9 million, 2011: 2, 01 million, 2010: 2.06 million). The overseas port had a total of 7649 (7752) ship calls in 2018 (2017), of which 6034 (5874) were ferry and Ro / Ro ships.

Despite the sharp decline in local fishing operations, the port of Rostock is still the home port of the trawlers of the German subsidiaries of the Dutch fishing group Parlevliet & Van der Plas . As of May 2020, five of the Group's ships are based in Rostock, including the Maartje Theadora, Europe's largest fishing ship

Cargo handling in the overseas port in millions of tons
year 1960 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1991 1995 2001 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Liquid goods 3.1 3.5 2.6 3.0 3.1 2.5 4.6 2.9 3.0 2.55 3.0 2.4 2.7 2.7 2.3 2.98
Bulk material 9.5 11.0 3.9 7.8 6.5 5.8 6.0 5.8 5.2 6.03 7.13 7.0 7.4 7.0 5.82 5.93
of which cereals and animal feed 2.4 3.3 3.5 2.6
General cargo 7.0 6.3 1.3 1.5 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.6 0.55 0.493 0.453 0.96 0.64 0.56 0.57
paper 0.616 0.823 0.706 0.90
Ferry goods 5.0 9.1 12.8 11.5 11.7 11.02 12.33 16.6 * 16.9 * 16.2 *
RoRo goods 0.96 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.9 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.25 1.25
total 1 10 12 15th 19.6 20.8 8.1 17.8 20.5 22.9 23.7 22.3 21.2 21.36 24.16 25.06 26.8 26.64 25.58 25.68
Cruise ship calls (total) 0 97 114 158 181 198 182 175 181 190 206
* Ferry and RoRo goods together

Industrial companies have also settled in the port area. In the area of ​​the overseas port , for example, there is a factory of the crane manufacturer Liebherr ( Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock ) and a malt house of Malteurop Germany. In 2008, a large pipe plant of a subsidiary of the Erndtebrücker Eisenwerke started production, mainly monopiles for offshore wind turbines are built here.

Harbor basin C of the overseas port

Training and further education center Rostock

AFZ Rostock

The Rostock Training Center (AFZ) is located at the Rostock fishing and freight port (RFH) in Marienehe . The shareholders are the Rostock Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Nordmetall . Among other things, accounting and human resources , logistics , metal construction , gastronomy , housekeeping , health and communication are taught . Ship and oil rig crews are trained in safety .

See also

literature

  • 50 years of Rostock seaport - 20 years of ferry traffic . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 5/2010, p. 39.
  • Ralf Witthohn: Rostock: Much more than Berlin's Kreuzlinerport . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt , issue 5/2010, pp. 24–27.
  • Rostock port: modern security concept . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 9/2012, pp. 36–38.
  • Rostock seaport is also fighting against the economic downturn - decline in almost all handling segments . In: Daily port report of August 13, 2013, p. 1/3.
  • Lars-Kristian Brandt The Rostock ferry port - Mecklenburg's gateway to Scandinavia . Sutton Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96303-031-4

Web links

Commons : Rostocker Häfen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Positive development in the Rostock overseas port , Rostock Port press release from January 10, 2020
  2. Frank Binder: Future Rostock Port GmbH · Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft will change its name from 2017 . In: Daily port report from December 19, 2016, p. 16
  3. Home - Euroports. Retrieved May 15, 2018 (American English).
  4. Hansa , issue 2/2018, p. 8
  5. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Ferry and RoRo traffic remains a driver . In: Daily port report from January 16, 2017, p. 1/3
  6. Jens Kiffmeier: RTM defies corona crisis Rostocker Terminal achieves record handling in combined transport . In: Daily port report of April 17, 2020, p. 3
  7. Benjamin Klare: RFH handled 26 percent less wood · Rostock freight and fishing port with a clear decline in core business · Total throughput also declined . In: Daily port report from January 8, 2020, p. 3
  8. ^ NDR: Start of construction for a new grain terminal in Rostock. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
  9. ^ Walter Ulbricht: The five-year plan and the perspectives of the national economy , in: Neues Deutschland , July 23, 1950, p. 6
  10. ^ Berliner Zeitung , September 2, 1951, p. 2
  11. Neues Deutschland , October 20, 1957, p. 7
  12. Jens Kiffmeier: RTM defies corona crisis Rostocker Terminal achieves record handling in combined transport . In: Daily port report of April 17, 2020, p. 3
  13. German seaports report stable handling development . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 4/2018, pp. 32–36, here p. 36
  14. ^ Cruise ships Warnemünde 2019. In: Rostock-Heute.de. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  15. Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Rostock: New record for cruise guests . In: Daily port report of October 16, 2014, p. 1/3
  16. Approaches | ROSTOCK PORT - Rostock harbor. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  17. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Luxusliner: Local economy benefits . In: Daily port report of October 12, 2017, p. 15
  18. Total throughput in the minus, ferry and RoRo segment in the plus . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 4/2019, p. 52
  19. ^ Frank Binder: Rostock seaport is growing . In: Daily port report from January 18, 2016, p. 1/2
  20. Slight growth in turnover in Rostock and Kiel . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 3/2014, pp. 68–70
  21. Renewed growth in the ferry and RoRo sector, new record for passengers | ROSTOCK PORT - Rostock harbor. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  22. German seaports report stable handling development . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 4/2018, pp. 32–36, here p. 36
  23. Schiffsflotte , deutscher-fischerei-verband.de, accessed on May 8, 2020
  24. German fishing demonstration caught illegal fishing , greenpeace.de, accessed on May 18, 2020
  25. a b c d e f g h i 45 years of the Rostock Port (Rostock Port) ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  26. Maritime location Rostock , special supplement to the daily port report of August 11, 2016, here p. 2
  27. Benjamin Klare: Plus for RoRo and ferry traffic . In: Daily port report from January 14, 2019, p. 3
  28. Home - AFZ. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .