Bremerhaven container terminal
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The Bremerhaven container terminal in Bremerhaven is part of the Bremen / Bremerhaven port group . In 2010 it was the largest contiguous container terminal in the world with the longest quay and for many years was one of the 25 largest container ports in terms of TEU throughput, and in 2017 it was ranked 26th.
history
According to plans in 1967, construction began in February 1968 with the groundbreaking ceremony for the 700-meter-long river quay north of the Nordschleuse. The financing was provided by the listed Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft AG (BLG). In June 1968, Bremerhaven's north port started container operation. In April 1971 the first berth on the river quay of the container terminal went into operation; The new terminal at the mouth of the Weser was officially inaugurated in September. In 1972 the loading capacities were very tight. BLG had a bridge under construction on the Burchardkai near Hamburg Harbor and Logistics (HHLA) dismantled and erected on the Stromkaje in Bremerhaven.
Construction began on the southern extension of the terminal in February 1978 and the northern extension in August 1980. With the inauguration of the northern extension in August 1983, Bremerhaven had the largest container handling facility on the continent. Construction of Container Terminal (CT) III began in October 1994, and in December the Bremen / Bremerhaven port group handled more than 1.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) for the first time . The approval procedure ( plan approval ) for the deepening of the outer Weser fairway to 14 meters was initiated in 1995.
1996 secured the first areas on the site of CT III and used, and the following year in March (1997) workers installed three new super post-Panamax - container bridges . In December 1997, CT III was fully operational. In January 1999, the federal government had the outer Weser fairway deepened so that even very large container ships can reach the Wilhelm Kaisen terminal largely independently of the tide . As a result, the turnover continued to grow strongly.
In December 2000 four of eight Super-Post-Panmax container cranes from the manufacturer Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery (ZPMC) from China reached Bremerhaven. With these bridges, the jibs of which can span 23 rows of containers on the waterside, container ships with storage capacities for 10,000 TEU and more can be loaded and unloaded. In May 2001 four more Super-Post-Panmax container cranes arrived from China with a special ship in Bremerhaven.
Senator Josef Hattig carried out the first pile driving at Container Terminal IIIa in October 2000 ; by autumn 2003 this quay was to be extended by 340 meters. The documents for the initiation of the planning approval procedure for CT IV were handed over to the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Northwest in Aurich in December 2002 . In November 2003 the expansion of the CT IIIa was inaugurated. The terminal now had a total floor space of around 2,000,000 m². With this quay extension the Weser fort Brinkamahof II disappeared .
The turning point in the Weser has been widened to 600 meters for large container ships , and a further deepening of the Outer Weser to 15.5 m is in preparation. In September 2006, what was then the world's second largest container ship, the Emma Mærsk , moored here for the first time.
The plan approval decision (including the ecological compensation measures on the Luneplate and in the foreland of the dike on the Wurster coast ) was passed in June 2004 for the expansion of the terminal . In November 2004, the symbolic first ramming for Container Terminal IV took place.
Since the CT IV went into operation on September 12, 2008, the floor space has been around 3,000,000 m² - that's roughly the size of 360 soccer fields. The river quay has a continuous length of 4930 meters and 14 berths. In 2010, CT Bremerhaven was the largest contiguous container terminal in the world and was entered in the Guinness Book of Records .
In May 2015, the jib of a container bridge in the area of the North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven, which operates part of the container terminal, fell into the hold of a container ship during handling work. During the recovery of the boom, a fire broke out in the ship, the Maersk Karachi . The 160-ton boom had been recovered by July 24, but the police had not yet released it for disposal due to the open question about the cause of the accident. 12,000 tons of polluted extinguishing water were pumped out and disposed of. At this point in time there was still dioxin-contaminated sludge in the ship, which was created during the fire fighting, and 200 possibly contaminated containers. According to the police, there has not yet been a comparable accident anywhere in the world. The Maersk Karachi was only allowed to leave the port four and a half months after the accident .
operator
The BLG Logistics Group Bremen was the sole operator of the Bremerhaven container terminal. In 1999, BLG and Eurokai from Hamburg founded Eurogate GmbH , a European container terminal and logistics group based in Bremen; she is u. a. Operator of the container terminals in Bremerhaven (CTB) and in Wilhelmshaven (CTW) in Jade-Weser-Port .
In addition, the handling area in parts of the quay is operated by the joint operation Eurogate / MSC ( MSCgate ) and the joint operation Eurogate / Maersk (NTB).
The Bremen-based company bremenports GmbH & Co. KG in Bremerhaven is responsible for port management with the tasks of port development concepts, port construction, infrastructure, port maintenance, marketing, administration and use of port areas as well as hinterland connections with u. a. of the Bremen Harbor Railway .
envelope
Handling at the Bremerhaven container terminal developed as follows:
- 1980: 0.39 million containers; 0.61 million TEU; 5.1 million t
- 1990: 0.65 million containers; 1.03 million TEU; 9.7 million t
- 2000: 1.63 million containers; 2.72 million TEU; 27.5 million t
- 2008: 3.24 million containers; 5.45 million TEU; 54.7 million t
- 2014: 3.43 million containers; 5.76 million TEU; 59.8 million t
- 2015: 3.26 million containers; 5.48 million TEU; 55.0 million t
- 2016: 3.24 million containers; 5.53 million TEU; 57.6 million t
- 2017: 3.21 million containers; 5.50 million TEU; 54.9 million t
A little more than half of the envelope was shipping, the other part was receiving.
In 2011, 4,307 container ships with 136,603 GT called at the ports of Bremen. In Bremerhaven, 3.55 million containers with 5.91 million TEU and 62.665 million tons in weight were handled.
In 2008, in TEU, the PR China (749,226), USA (662,599), Russian Federation (390,712), Poland (196,256), Finland (168,535), Sweden (131,601) and Norway (124,562) were the leading countries in container traffic by sea, which were supplied from the port group.
In 2010, around 3.0 million TEU of the 4.9 million TEU were transported by sea-based feeder ships. 1.9 million TEU were part of the hinterland transport . 51% of these container deliveries and removals were carried out by truck (road), 45% by rail (rail) and only 4% by inland waterway . The share of rail transport increased from 37 to 45% between 2005 and 2010.
The most important shipping lines lead to Russia, Scandinavia, North, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Far East.
See also
literature
- Hans-Heinrich Wenthe, Hans-Werner Vollstedt: Combined sheet pile walls at the Bremerhaven container terminal . Hansa (magazine) , issue 1/2013, pp. 79-83, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2013, ISSN 0017-7504
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thanks to "Container-Schorsch" . In: Hansa , issue 4/2018, p. 80
- ^ Container crane breaks in Bremerhaven - crane driver recovered dead , Weser-Kurier, May 14, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015.
- ↑ Still toxic mud on the freighter - accident at the quay. In: www.radiobremen.de. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015 ; Retrieved August 4, 2015 .
- ↑ “Maersk Karachi” is allowed to leave Bremerhaven - Bremen City Report - WESER-KURIER. In: www.weser-kurier.de. Retrieved October 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Bremenports GmbH & Co. KG: Figures, data, facts 2010 ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ The Senator for Economics, Labor and Ports: Hafenspiegel 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 15 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E