Brunsbuettel Ports
| Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1977 |
| Seat | Brunsbuettel , Germany |
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| Branch | Port operations / logistics service providers |
| Website | www.brunsbuettelports.de |
The Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH is a private port operator based in Brunsbüttel . The company is the owner and operator of the three Brunsbüttel ports, Elbehafen , Ölhafen and Ostermoor . The company also operates the Glückstadt outer port and, in a joint venture with Ahlmann-Zerssen GmbH + Co. KG, the heavy-duty port of Rendsburg Port on the Kiel Canal . Brunsbüttel Ports also operates two transshipment terminals in Hamburg. The core competencies with which regional, national and international customers are served are in the areas of handling, storage, transit loading and project logistics.
The Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH is part of the Schramm Group .
history
The company has its roots in the establishment of Elbehafen Brunsbüttelkoog GmbH by the state of Schleswig-Holstein on April 13, 1967. The official inauguration of the port facilities of the Elbe port took place on July 1 of the same year. Initially, only crude oil was handled in this port , but with the installation of two double-articulated luffing cranes, bulk and general cargo was also possible for the first time from 1970 . In 1973 the annual turnover exceeded the 4 million ton limit for the first time, and in 1974 over 5 million tons of goods were handled for the first time. Both record results were achieved mainly through the handling of crude oil. Between 1972 and 1974, the state of Schleswig-Holstein acquired large areas of land bordering the port in order to develop and market today's industrial area south in Brunsbüttel . Today's port of Ostermoor on the Kiel Canal was built and operated by the state of Schleswig-Holstein for supply and disposal of the planned industrial area .
In July 1977 the country decided to sell the operation of the Elbe port. The companies Schramm, Buss and Lexzau Scharbau jointly founded the Hafengesellschaft Brunsbüttel mbH , which took over the superstructure , the entire staff and the existing contracts. The port of Ostermoor and the oil port were operated by the port company against reimbursement of costs from the land. The Elbehafen Brunsbüttelkoog GmbH was dissolved.
In 1994 the Schramm family took over the operation of the Glückstadt outer port, and the Hafengesellschaft Glückstadt mbH was founded. The state of Schleswig-Holstein continued to own the property. Container handling began in 1998, initially by rail and later by barge . Since further development of the Elbe port was necessary, the state of Schleswig-Holstein offered the port company the acquisition of the port. This has since been the operator and owner of the Elbe port. In 1999, the port company acquired the Ostermoor oil port and port, and the two ports in the Kiel Canal have been owned by Hafengesellschaft Brunsbüttel mbH ever since . In December 2000, the deepening in the eastern area of the Elbe port was completed so that Panamax ships can now also call at the port. After the departure of the other shareholders in previous years, the Schramm family has taken on the role of sole shareholder in the port company since 2004. Since 2006 the Elbe port has owned and operated a terminal for combined transport (intermodal terminal). Since then, the port has served as a hub for trimodal container traffic between water , rail and road .
In January 2007 the Elbe port began handling copper ore concentrate. This is transported via conveyor belts and loading systems to the specially created warehouse, stored there by type, mixed according to the customer's request and transported to the customer with two of the company's own inland vessels. The sea freight throughput in the Elbe port grew by almost 50 percent in 2007. Thus, this takes a top position in the percentage increase among all seaports. In January 2008 the long-time port manager Karl-Heinz Janssen retired. The current managing director Frank Schnabel took over his successor .
In order to do justice to the international market, the company name was changed in April 2009: Hafengesellschaft Brunsbüttel mbH became today's Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH . In the same year the company began to establish itself in the growing offshore market. One of the first major projects was the retrofitting of a jack-up platform for the construction of the first German offshore wind farm, alpha ventus . In November 2009 Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH received the “Best Specialist Dry Bulk Award” and thus the prize as the best dry cargo port in competition with specialized ports in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Thanks to its broad positioning as a universal port operator, the company defied the economic crisis in 2009 and even increased total throughput by almost 3.7% during this difficult time.
In November 2010, Brunsbüttel Ports handled 90 rotor blades, each weighing 22 t, for the Ormonde offshore wind farm built in the Irish Sea , making Brunsbüttel Ports a partner in offshore wind power logistics. In February 2011 the company signed a major order for the operation of the supply and disposal of the new coal-fired power plant in Hamburg-Moorburg , which has been carried out since September 2013. At the end of 2017, Brunsbüttel Ports was also awarded the contract for logistics for the supply and disposal of the Vattenfall power plants Wedel and Hamburg- Tiefstack .
In October 2011, Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH signed a contract with the Norwegian gas company Gasnor AS for the bunkering of ships with the more environmentally friendly marine fuel LNG (liquefied natural gas) from November 2011. With this cooperation, the Brunsbüttel-based company would like to play a pioneering role in the development of an LNG Take over the infrastructure for shipping in northern Germany. Along with Stade, Wilhelmshaven and Rostock, Brunsbüttel is one of the cities that are in competition with the establishment of an LNG terminal; 50 environmental associations and citizens' groups are against it. The advantage of the Brunsbüttel location lies in the increasing demand as fuel for the ships at the intersection of the Elbe federal waterways and the busy Kiel Canal at the confluence with the North Sea, as well as the gas demand in ChemCoast Park (around 800 million m³ per year ) as well as the possibility of feeding the regasified gas into the existing pipeline network. At this point in time, however, it was still too early to set up an LNG terminal, as operation would not have been economically feasible.
The Elbe port, the oil port and the port of Ostermoor together handled more than 10 million tonnes in 2011.
In February 2012, Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH and Ahlmann-Zerssen GmbH & Co. KG took over the joint operation of the new Kiel Canal port in Osterrönfeld under the name Rendsburg Port GmbH .
In March 2012, the construction contract for the upgrading of the middle berth in the Elbe port was signed. Through this project, the universal berth for bulk and especially heavy goods (e.g. wind turbines ) was upgraded for the requirements of the future. The total throughput of the three Brunsbüttel ports rose in 2017 to a record total of around 13 million tons, 10 million tons of which in the Elbe port.
At the beginning of 2015, a cooperation agreement was signed with the Dutch Gasunie , which already operates an LNG terminal in the port of Rotterdam together with Vopak , to investigate the establishment of an LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel. A cooperation agreement was also concluded with the tank car operator VTG AG at the beginning of 2015. VTG designed a new tank car for the transport of LNG. In July 2017, the EU Commission approved the establishment of German LNG Terminal GmbH by Gasunie , Oiltanking and Vopak .
location
With its strategic location on the Lower Elbe and the Kiel Canal , the Brunsbüttel port group - with the Elbe port , the oil port and the Ostermoor port - offers direct access to the North and Baltic Seas . In addition, these ports are in close proximity to the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, have a connection to the European inland waterways and have free space near the port. Due to their direct location at ChemCoast Park Brunsbüttel , the largest industrial area in Schleswig-Holstein with 2,000 hectares, the ports handle the supply and disposal of most of the companies located there as well as the transshipment of other regional, national and international customers. The Brunsbüttel ports are therefore an important transshipment center in the Hamburg metropolitan region .
The federal highway 5 connects the Brunsbütteler ports with the federal highway 23 near Itzehoe. In addition, track systems connect the Elbe port to the railway network at Wilster .
Port facilities
The Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH owns and operates the three Ports of Brunsbüttel Elbe port , oil terminal and port Ostermoor . The company also operates the Glückstadt outer port , the heavy-duty port Rendsburg Port as well as an existing and a future terminal in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg in a joint venture with Ahlmann-Zerssen GmbH + Co. KG .
Elbe port of Brunsbüttel
The Elbe port (map) is a deep-water seaport and is located on the north bank of the Lower Elbe east of the Brunsbüttel canal locks in the Brunsbüttel-Süd industrial area. This natural tidal port is the sixth largest seaport in Germany and, thanks to its broad positioning as a universal port, can handle a wide variety of types of goods. In addition to two berths for ships with dry goods, the port also has a berth for ships with liquid goods, so that a total of three berths are available for ocean-going vessels. In addition, the Elbe port in the east basin has two berths for inland vessels .
In April 2016, the first loading of a specially designed tank car from VTG AG with LNG took place in the Elbe port . In January 2018 the first bunkering of a ship with LNG from truck tankers took place here (truck-to-ship). The first German LNG ship-to-ship bunkering took place in October 2019 in the Elbe port.
| Nautical conditions | |
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| Ship length | Max. 350.0 m |
| Ship width | Max. 55.0 m |
| Permissible draft | |
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| Tanker area | 13.8 m |
| Dry goods area | 14.4 m |
| Inland shipping port | 4.7 m (above sea level) |
| Quay | |
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| Quay length | 1,095 m |
| Quay height (KN) | 7.6 m |
| Mean tidal range | 2.9 m (above sea level) |
Since the Elbe port is a universal port, a wide variety of types of goods are handled. The following goods are handled regularly:
- Liquid goods (crude oil, liquid gas)
- Bulk goods (building materials, cement, copper ore, coal, substitute fuels)
- General cargo and heavy goods ( wind turbines , machine parts , containers , big bags , pallets, barrel and bagged goods)
In order to be able to handle this variety of goods, the following handling equipment is available:
- four cranes with a lifting capacity of up to 120 t
- two oil transfer devices (DN 500; 5,000 m³ / h per device)
- a liquid gas transfer device (DN 200; 500 m³ / h)
- two coal loading facilities
- Reach stackers up to 45 t
- Forklifts up to 30 t
- a special excavator (MultiDocker) up to 20 t load capacity
- Wheel loaders / mobile excavators
- Shunting vehicles
In order to store and transport the goods after the transhipment, the Elbe port has the following infrastructure:
- 27,900 m² of hall space in a total of six halls
- 483,900 m² outdoor storage area
- 9 km of track network with connection to a marshalling yard as well as to the German railway network near Wilster
- two truck scales (up to 60 t)
The Elbe port also has a terminal for combined transport (intermodal terminal). This terminal links the water, rail and road transport routes, making the Elbe port a hub for trucks, railways, feeders, ocean-going vessels and inland waterways. The following are available for this terminal:
- two reach stackers with a load capacity of up to 45 t
- a crane with top spreader up to 40 t individual parts with lugs and lifting eyes as well as containers
- Storage capacity for 2000 TEU
- 500 TEU hazardous goods area
- 9 km of track with connection to a marshalling yard
Ostermoor Brunsbüttel harbor
The port of Ostermoor is located on the southeast side of the Kiel Canal at canal kilometers 5.65 and is therefore close to the Brunsbüttel canal lock. The port was built by the state of Schleswig-Holstein to serve as a supply and disposal facility for the adjacent industrial area. Today Bayer AG Brunsbüttel plant, Total Bitumen Deutschland GmbH and Yara Brunsbüttel GmbH use the nearby port.
The port of Ostermoor has six berths and five handling bridges, through which ammonia , urea , crude oil and various other liquid chemicals are handled by the companies.
| Nautical conditions | |
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| Ship width | Max. 32.5 m |
| Permissible draft | Max. 10.4 m |
Brunsbüttel oil port
The Brunsbüttel oil port is located on the northwest side of the Kiel Canal at canal kilometer 3.55 near the Brunsbüttel canal lock. The oil port is connected to the Heide refinery in Hemmingstedt by a 32 km long pipeline , so that various refinery products can be handled in liquid form via this port. Around 50 percent of the products leave the Heide refinery via this port.
The transshipment is made possible by five berths and five transshipment bridges with a capacity of up to 1,000 m³ / h.
| Nautical conditions | |
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| Ship length | Max. 235.0 m |
| Ship width | Max. 27.0 m |
| Permitted drafts | Max. 10.4 m |
Glückstadt outer harbor
The Glückstadt outer port is located directly on the Elbe and therefore directly on the international shipping line to and from Hamburg. This is operated by Glückstadt Port GmbH & Co. KG , a subsidiary of Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH . Due to its location, the port is a location for supplying regionally based industrial companies such as the wood, cement and paper industries. Furthermore, the regional agricultural demand for fertilizer, feed and grain traffic is handled via the outer harbor.
Due to its location, the Glückstadt outer port is also used in particular as a port for direct transshipment: goods are loaded from seagoing vessels directly onto inland vessels and vice versa.
The following goods are handled with the help of a harbor crane (nominal load 45 t) and various other vehicles and equipment:
- General cargo (lime in big bags , cellulose, containers, etc.)
- Heavy lift
- Project loads
- Dry bulk goods (building materials, fertilizers, etc.)
A total of 24,100 m² storage space (20,000 m² open space and 4,100 m² hall space) is available for the goods.
| Quay | |
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| Length of the south quay | 220.0 m |
| Length of the north quay | 250.0 m |
| Nautical conditions | |
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| Permissible draft Südkai | Max. 6.0 m (HW) |
| Permissible draft north quay | Max. 5.5 m (HW) |
| Mean tidal range | Max. 2.8 m |
| Ship length | Max. 250.0 m |
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In 2019, a total of around 13.7 million tons of goods were handled. 1200 seagoing vessels and 1900 inland waterway vessels were handled.
Cooperations
The Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH is organized in several collaborations: In the port cooperation Unterelbe the five ports in the Lower Elbe Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel, Glückstadt, Stade and Hamburg agree to cooperate to strengthen competitiveness. The cooperation focuses on the areas of information exchange, joint space management when companies are settled, operational cooperation, sustainable management, joint marketing, transport infrastructure issues as well as nautical issues and permit management.
Furthermore, the Brunsbüttel Ports is active in the port cooperation offshore ports North Sea Schleswig-Holstein . The port locations of Brunsbüttel, Büsum, Dagebüll, Helgoland, Husum, Hörnum, List, Rendsburg-Osterrönfeld and Wyk auf Föhr have a cooperation with the aim of offering the operators of the offshore wind farms an all-encompassing maritime offer for the installation and supply of the wind farms the focus on "production, logistics and service ports for offshore wind farms".
In addition, Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH and Glückstadt Port GmbH & Co. KG cooperate with Sächsische Binnenhäfen Oberelbe GmbH on inland waterway transport on the Elbe. With this cooperation, the port groups want to link the ports on the Upper Elbe (Dresden, Riesa, Torgau, Decin and Lovosice) with those in the Lower Elbe (Elbe port Brunsbüttel, oil port Brunsbüttel, port Ostermoor and port Glückstadt) and expand the cooperation. Goods are to be transported more often by barge from the Upper Elbe to the Lower Elbe, loaded onto ocean-going vessels and transported by sea to the customer and vice versa. A shift in the flow of goods thus relieves the road traffic carrier. Existing business areas such as B. the transport of wind turbines are to be optimized together and new business areas are to be developed.
Others
Brunsbüttel Ports is a member of the ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center .
Web links
literature
- Ports worldwide - Baltic Sea ports . WV Wirtschafts- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-939824-45-9 , p. 14/15
- Brunsbüttel Port advertising brochure - more than moving from Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH
- Breakbulk advertising brochure from Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH
- Port Concept Lower Elbe , page 11/12, accessed on November 19, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Successful thanks to a versatile goods structure . In: Daily port report from January 5, 2018, p. 3
- ↑ Malte Daniljuk: Weltpolitik in Norddeutschland , Telepolis from October 29, 2018
- ↑ LNG Terminal in Stade (or Wilhelmshaven) torpedoes energy transition and climate protection obligations and generates investment ruins . Open letter dated December 6, 2018
- ↑ From vision to reality . In: Daily port report of October 30, 2019, special supplement No. 12, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Hafentag , pp. 8–11
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Brunsbütteler Hafengruppe achieves record throughput · Growth particularly in the liquid cargo and bulk cargo business . In: Daily port report from January 5, 2018, p. 1
- ↑ German seaports report stable handling development . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 4/2018, pp. 32–36, here pp. 34/35
- ↑ From vision to reality . In: Daily port report of October 30, 2019, special supplement No. 12, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Hafentag , pp. 8–11
- ↑ Raffinerie Heide - About Us ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Refinery Heide website, accessed November 8, 2012
- ↑ Benjamin Klare: Port group increases cargo handling · Brunsbüttel ports increase eight percent . In: Daily port report from January 8, 2020, p. 3
