Aarhus Havn
| Aarhus Havn | |||
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| Data | |||
| UN / LOCODE | DKAAR | ||
| operator | Aarhus Havn | ||
| Port type | seaport | ||
| Total area of the port | 2.6 km² | ||
| Passengers | 1.3 million (2010) | ||
| Goods handled | Bulk goods , containers etc. | ||
| Throughput | 8.223 million t (2016) | ||
| Container (TEU) | 511,424 (2017) | ||
| Average opening days (year) | 365 days / year | ||
| website | http://www.aarhushavn.dk/ | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Aarhus | ||
| region | Midtjylland region | ||
| Country | Denmark | ||
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 9 '17 " N , 10 ° 13' 34" E | ||
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The Aarhus Havn ( German Hafen Aarhus ) is the second largest port and the largest container port in Denmark . The municipal operating company works as an independent company. The seven-member board is chaired by the mayor of Aarhus municipality ; It also includes two city councilors, three experts and an employee representative . The day-to-day business is the responsibility of the port management made up of port director Jakob Flyvbjerg Christensen and three department heads.
Around 5,000 employees work in around 150 private companies that deal with shipping, trading, transport and storage on an area of 260 hectares with nine kilometers of quays . There are also larger factories in the port area. The container area covers 75 hectares and has quayside facilities with a length of 1.3 kilometers. With a water depth of up to 14 meters, the port can also be called by large seagoing vessels.
history
Beginnings
The port of Aarhus is considered to be one of the oldest ports in Denmark. The city and its port were created at the mouth of the Au Aarhus Å , which flows through the wooded Ådalen ("Autal"). The name of the city is derived from the Au and its mouth (compare Danish: Å for "Au"). As early as the 11th century, the port was assigned an important role for sea shipping, although it was originally just a simple anchorage. In the Middle Ages, due to the way the boat types were built, the floodplains were more suitable for mooring than the open coast and Århus Å was deep enough for the flat-bottomed merchant and warships. From the 15th century it became a landing stage that stretched from the Immervad ford towards the sea to a port. The Mindebro bridge from 1634 formed the limit to which large sailing ships could enter the Auhafen.
19th century
On May 10, 1845, permission was granted to expand the port by building two piers into Aarhus Bay . As a result, from 1845 to 1861 with the construction of the "Südermole", the current Mellemarmen ("intermediate arm ") and the "Mittelmole" (today Pier 2), the first actual harbor basin was created. The second basin was created between 1883 and 1890 with the construction of the "Nordermole". The two port basins form today's Nordhafen (Nordhavnen) . The north and middle moles were later replaced by Pier 2. In the 19th century were first steam locomotives for shunting with freight cars used. The " Gamle Ole " shunting locomotive from 1869 is one of the oldest surviving steam locomotives today. The vehicle is the oldest operational locomotive in Denmark .
20th century
With the construction of the "Ostmole" from 1905 to 1911, a third harbor basin was created, and the southern harbor was created, which was later expanded with the Kornpier and the Mellemarmen. The Hans Nielsen Maskinkompagni shipyard was founded in 1913, and its successor companies were active in shipbuilding until 2009. The fishing and yacht port was built from 1930 to 1933, while the oil port was completed just before the outbreak of World War II .
From the middle of the 20th century, the north port was significantly expanded. Pier 4 with the North Container Terminal was opened in 1974 and has been expanded several times to keep pace with the growing container throughput. With the construction of the east port in 1975, a multi-terminal was built next to the tanker quay and coal terminal, which can be used by large bulk carriers in particular with a water depth of 13.5 meters . The coal terminal was converted into a bulk cargo terminal in 1994. In 1998 the expansion of the east port began. Since April 2001, the East Container Terminal has been used by the Mærsk Line shipping company, among others , to operate its regular services to the Far East. The former shipyard area in the Südhafen is now home to other subsequent users as well as a special terminal where, among other things, wind turbines are loaded. According to the regional plan of Aarhus municipality from 2003, part of the port area on a stretch from Tangkrog in the south to Risskov in the north should be redesigned for urban purposes in the future.
transport
Over half of Denmark's overseas trade goes through the port of Aarhus. It forms an important hub for handling goods from all over the Baltic Sea region . As such, it goes along with the higher-level transport network in the European Union via the iron and motorway . Container ships from overseas traffic call at the port to transship goods that are transported on to and from Aarhus by feeder ships from countries bordering the Baltic Sea.
On average, the port is called by over 8,000 ships a year, with a decrease to around 7,000 ships in 2009. Cargo handling also fell from twelve to nine million tons in 2009, which was the sharpest decline in the history of the port. Container ships on regular routes and cargo ferries make up more than half of the turnover, while the rest is split between the transport of feed, coal, vegetable and mineral oil products. Parts of wind turbines are also transported. Container terminals are located at piers 3 and 4 in the north port. However, the port activities of the two piers were relocated to the new container terminal in the east port in 2007. The central part of the port is the oil and petrol port, where oil products, cement, molasses and the like are handled. Among other things, animal feed is loaded at the multi-terminal. General cargo is handled in the east port .
Ferry and cruise port
In addition, the port is an important ferry port with connections to the island of Zealand and a stop for cruise ships. In the 2009 summer season, 15 cruise ships with 22,000 guests docked in the port.
From 1960 to 1966 ferries drove to Halmstad in Sweden , from 1961 to 1968 to the Norwegian capital Oslo . The ferry docks for DFDS ships to Copenhagen were closed in 1970, the port station of the Danish State Railways for ferries to Kalundborg and Samsø in 1997. In 1991 a line with high-speed ferries between Aarhus and Kalundborg was opened, which was expanded in 1999 to include the ferry port Odden Færgehavn . In 2002 the shipping company Molslinjen moved with passenger and cargo ferries from the inner harbor to a newly built ferry terminal at Pier 3. The route Aarhus – Kalundborg was taken over in September 2011 by the company Kattegatruten of the Flensburger Förde Reederei Seetouristik , but was finally closed on October 12, 2013.
AIDA cruise ships will dock in Århus for the first time from 2016 .
Established businesses
- Aarhus Flydedok operated a shipyard that existed from 1913 to 2009.
Web links
- Aarhus Havn Official Website (Danish, English)
- Århus Havn in Aarhuswiki (Danish)
- Aarhus Søfarts Museum Aarhus Maritime Museum (Danish)
- Current key data (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aarhus Havn: Årsberetning 2010 , accessed on May 21, 2011 (Danish)
- ↑ Aarhus handles record volumes . In: Daily port report from January 10, 2018, p. 3
- ↑ a b c Aarhus Havn: Årsrapport 2009 ( Memento from July 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (annual report for 2009 from March 2010; PDF; 7.7 MB), accessed on August 27, 2010 (Danish)
- ↑ a b c d Den Store Danske Encyklopædi : Århus Havn , accessed on August 27, 2010 (Danish)
- ↑ a b c Aarhus Leksikon: Hjælp: Århusleksikon ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 27, 2010 (Danish)
- ↑ Description panel of the Nuremberg Transport Museum in the exhibition "Adler, Rocket and Co." from August 6 to October 31, 2010
- ↑ DR P4 Østjylland: Ny Aarhus-Kalundborg-rute klar i tomorrow , posted on September 19, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2011 (Danish)