Duisburger Hafen AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | September 30, 1926 |
| Seat | Duisburg , Germany |
| management | Erich Staake (Chairman of the Management Board), Thomas Schlipköther (Member of the Management Board), Markus Bangen (Member of the Management Board) |
| Number of employees | 1500 |
| sales | 292.6 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Logistics, operation of ports, rental and leasing of land, logistics services, settlement management, development of port and logistics concepts, rail freight transport services, packaging logistics |
| Website | www.duisport.de |
The Duisburg Hafen AG owns and operates the Port of Duisburg and acts with its subsidiaries as Duisport group . Two thirds of the owners are the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and one third the city of Duisburg .
Services
The Duisport Group is a full-service provider in the logistics sector on the Rhine and Ruhr . The offer includes: area development beyond the own port area, including settlement management for logistics and industrial companies, the development of port and logistics concepts, transport services, industrial packaging worldwide and contract logistics on behalf of industry.
Around 300 companies have settled in the area of the Duisburg port, 100 of them in the past 20 years alone. More than 20,000 ships and around 25,000 freight trains arrive at and leave the port of Duisburg each year. Every week, duisport maintains 400 regular connections in combined transport to over 80 destinations in Europe and Asia. Around two thirds of the total of 131 million tons of goods per year are now handled by rail and ship, and one third by truck .
In 2019, duisport handled 61.1 million tons of goods (shipping), in 2018 it was 65.3 million tons. Container handling in particular has grown in recent years. In 2019 around 4.0 million standard containers ( TEU ) were handled in Duisburg, in 2017 and 2018 it was around 4.1 million TEU each. The port capacity was increased to over five million TEU. An expansion to up to seven million TEU is planned. This makes Duisburg the largest inland container "hub" in Europe. The port in western Central Europe with an area of 150 million inhabitants has also contributed to the fact that North Rhine-Westphalia is the leading logistics region in Europe with around 28,000 companies and well over 600,000 employees.
history
Today's Duisburger Hafen AG was founded in 1926 as Duisburg-Ruhrorter Häfen Aktiengesellschaft . This merger of the previously separate port companies of the cities of Duisburg and Ruhrort took place a year before the merger of the two cities (1927). The starting signal for the history of the port is considered to be a decision made by the Ruhrort magistrate on September 16, 1716. Immediately afterwards, the expansion of the first secured harbor basin began with the aim of loading, unloading and reloading the increasing number of coal ships from the collieries in the Brandenburg mining area.
As early as the 1920s, the port of Duisburg was a central freight transshipment point, especially for the coal and steel industry on the Rhine and Ruhr. After extensive destruction of all port facilities in the Second World War, the port experienced a new beginning in the wake of the economic miracle in Germany in the 1950s. Due to its location in the middle of the most important mining region in Germany, the most important goods handled were ore and coal. Mineral oil, iron, steel, gravel and sand, scrap and grain followed.
In the 1980s, Duisburger Hafen AG began building the first container terminals . In 1984 the DeCeTe Duisburg container terminal was completed, in 1987 the RRT Rhein-Ruhr Terminal and the first roll-on-roll-off facility . At the Ruhr Area Conference in 1988, the structural change from coal to general cargo handling , especially in the container , was officially determined by the operating company.
From 1992 onwards, the decision by Duisburger Hafen AG established the intensification of combined transport . For this “ trimodal ” orientation of the business as a hub for trucks, freight trains and ships, the construction of a train station was first started.
Since May 2000, the port company has been operating under the new name Duisburger Hafen AG to adapt to the changed competitive conditions . In this context, all of the Group's activities are grouped under the duisport umbrella brand .
In 2016 the Port of Duisburg celebrated its 300th anniversary. On the occasion of the anniversary, the "Echo of Poseidon" was created. The 11-ton statue created by the artist Markus Lüpertz stands on a 4½ meter high base on Mercator Island at the entrance to Duisburg's inland port.
In the meantime, containers, trailers and swap bodies are transported by rail from the Port of Duisburg to a large number of national and international destinations. These include scheduled services to Chongqing and other destinations in the PR China - “ New Silk Road ”.
Business areas
- duisport agency (dpa)
- In 1997 the Port Agency Duisburg , today's duisport agency , was founded. Initially, your main task was location marketing. Over time, however, the focus shifted to the development of multimodal transport concepts , especially by rail.
- duisport rail (dpr)
- In May 2001, its own rail company, duisport rail , was founded. In addition to the networking of the port centers logport and Ruhrort, their offer includes additional regional transport services.
- duisport facility logistics (dfl)
- Services in the field of port and maintenance logistics have been combined in the specially founded subsidiary duisport facility logistics GmbH since 2002 .
- duisport packing logistics (dpl)
- In 2007 the duisport Group took over the VTS Group, a packaging logistics company specializing in mechanical and plant engineering products. With the renaming of VTS to duisport packing logistics , the final integration into the duisport Group was completed in early 2010. Since then, duisport packing logistics has been expanded to include national locations, for example in Hamburg, Metzingen , Chemnitz and Offenbach, as well as internationally in China, India and Belgium.
- duisport consult (dpc)
- Since 2009, the group subsidiary duisport consult GmbH has been implementing international consulting projects in the area of the development of infrastructure and suprastructure concepts and logistics planning. In the meantime this included u. a. Port and hinterland concepts for Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Djebel Ali (Dubai).
- startport
- In October 2017, Duisburger Hafen AG founded the logistics innovation platform “startport”. Start-up companies are given the opportunity to develop innovative logistical solutions on a total area of 550 square meters in the creative environment of the Werhahnmühle on Duisburg's inner harbor. Interested company founders can apply for a place in the startport program via the website.
- Beans logistics
- The youngest member of the duisport Group was the shipping company Bohnen Logistik with 150 employees and an annual turnover of approx. 25 million euros in 2017 as part of a succession plan . a. to the partner companies in the port area logport I heard.
The logport concept
The logport concept is part of the structural change in the Rhine-Ruhr region and is developing fallow industrial areas into logistics areas.
logport I
The core of the strategic realignment was the development of the logport concept (logport-spirit) in 1998. Its successful development will be honored with a celebration on September 7th, 2018 after 20 years. In 1998 the logport Logistic-Center Duisburg GmbH started its activities. The task of this marketing company was to transform the newly acquired site (over 265 hectares) of the former Krupp iron and steel works in Duisburg-Rheinhausen into a logistic service and logistics center under the name “logport I”. Shortly thereafter, the first relocation followed with New Wave Logistics , a subsidiary of the major Japanese shipping company Nippon Yūsen , which today operates its German headquarters in Duisburg. In the following years, major customers such as Rhenus , DB Schenker and DHL were acquired .
In 2002, the DIT Duisburg Intermodal Terminal was opened on the logport site as a trimodal interface between the modes of transport ship, rail and truck with an annual capacity of 250,000 TEU. Two more terminals, the D3T Duisburg Trimodal Terminal and the DKT Duisburg Kombiterminal, were recently built on the site to meet the growing demand. At the beginning of 2009 the logport site was almost completely marketed and more than 60 percent of it was already in operation. There are now 650,000 square meters of hall space available there. Over 5000 jobs have been created there. With the inauguration of the new logistics complex of the Kuehne + Nagel Group on logport I, which was built by the duisport Group in seven months in 2012, Duisburg is now the world's largest location for this company with an area of almost 185,000 square meters.
logport II
The port area now continues on the opposite side of the Rhine: logport II has a total of 35 hectares of logistics space. The Gateway West Terminal , which the duisport Group operates together with the Imperial Group, has been in operation there since 2009 . At the end of 2009, a heavy lift terminal went into operation on the duisport site .
In 2013, Audi's largest German logistics center , also built on the “logport II” site, went into operation. The contract has now been extended to 2023. From there, components of numerous Audi models are packed and sent in containers to the production lines overseas. The VW can be transported since 2014 from a logistics center in Duisburg-Kaßlerfeld of components in their own overseas plants. In 2017, Daimler also opened its own location in the Port of Duisburg - on the Mercator Island at the mouth of the Ruhr, Duisport built a hall for the production network of the Mercedes-Benz Vans division, from which components are packaged and shipped overseas via Rotterdam and Antwerp . This means that around 1½ million tonnes of vehicle components are now exported from Duisburg every year. As a result, 2,500 logistics jobs have now been created at the Duisburg automotive location.
logport III
The logport III area was built on the former Duisburg-Hohenbudberg marshalling yard . The Dutch logistics company Samskip van Dieren handles more than 50 weekly train connections and the like via a bimodal terminal . a. towards Scandinavia.
In September 2013, a direct, non-public connecting road between Chempark Krefeld-Uerdingen and logport III was inaugurated. As a result of the joint project by Currenta and duisport, a considerable part of the chemical transports of the companies located in the Chempark will be shifted to rail.
logport IV
The next member of the logport family was to acquire a 240 hectare property in Kamp-Lintfort . A new industrial area with a bimodal connection was created on the former coal storage area of the West mine. The site has been fully marketed since the end of 2016. The Steinhoff Group and the e-commerce company Chal-Tec are based there .
logport V
The approx. 30 hectare logport V area was created on a disused coal mine site in Oberhausen . Edeka Handelsgesellschaft Rhein-Ruhr is building a logistics center there.
logport VI
The approximately 40 hectare property of the insolvent paper factory Walsum GmbH including the existing halls and production facilities was acquired by Duisburger Hafen AG . The trimodally connected logport VI area is being built on this site .
Mercator Island
In 2017, Duisburger Hafen AG built a logistics center for DB Schenker on Mercator Island in Duisburg-Ruhrort. From there, DB Schenker consolidates, packs and ships individual parts and vehicle components for the worldwide production network of the Mercedes-Benz Vans division of Daimler.
further activities
In order to transfer the “logport” model to the surrounding region, the joint venture logport ruhr GmbH was founded in 2008 together with RAG Montan-Immobilien to market suitable properties in the Ruhr area as logistics locations with future- oriented concepts. logport IV was built on what was once a mining site in nearby Kamp-Lintfort - and is now completely occupied. logport V on a former mining site in Oberhausen is currently being developed by logport Ruhr GmbH to become the location of a central warehouse for Edeka Rhein-Ruhr GmbH .
In the meantime, duisport is developing logport VI in place of the former Walsum paper mill in Duisburg ; 40 hectares with a port basin, container terminal and logistics and commercial space. The 50 hectare area of the former Auguste Victoria colliery in Marl is to be developed as logport VII . Further Ruhr locations are being discussed in order to also be converted into multimodal logistics centers. Logistics concepts based on the logport model are also being implemented in Lülsdorf near Bonn, where 50 hectares of port and logistics space are being developed in cooperation with Evonik. Another 45 hectares from the holdings of a Rhenish industrial company will soon also be taken over by duisport for further development. Duisport and RWE Power AG are developing a bimodal commercial and industrial area on a 53 hectare recultivated area of the Garzweiler opencast mine in the area of the cities of Grevenbroich and Jüchen . A total of almost 200 hectares of land is currently under development throughout NRW.
economy
Since the start of the restructuring in 1998, the duisport Group's turnover has grown to 292.6 million euros in the 2019 financial year, the operating result (EBITDA) rose to 43.4 million euros, and the annual profit to 13 million euros. The number of jobs at the port company has more than quintupled since 1998 to 1,500. In the regional environment, the employment effect triggered by the port grew from around 19,000 to around 50,000 jobs today. The added value generated by port operations in the local area is around three billion euros annually. The development of the port of Duisburg is therefore a success of the structural change in the Ruhr area.
A contract with China's logistics developer China Merchants Holding came along the “ New Silk Road ” - for example in Urumqui in western China , in Istanbul and in Minsk (Belarus); where the “Great Stone” area is currently the largest industrial and logistics area in the world.
Together with partners such as the University of Duisburg-Essen , a 3D printing center will be built in the Port of Duisburg in 2018 . Here, the potential of additive manufacturing is to be transferred into industrial practice, combined with the transfer of packaging and transport logistics into the industrial value chain.
duisport has developed an integrated energy and climate protection plan together with the University of Duisburg-Essen. To avoid traffic jams and thereby relieve residents of the traffic noise. In addition, duisport has developed concepts with the logisticians at the site to shift over 100,000 truck trips annually from the road to rail and inland waterway transport.
Solar solutions and electrically powered transport systems are developed together with Innogy . The first solar foils have already been applied to the facade of a property in the free port. After a successful test run, there is the potential to use up to ten million square meters of facade and roof area in the Duisburg harbor to generate energy. duisport's vehicle fleet will gradually be converted to electromobility if it is suitable.
The liquid gas LNG is an alternative to diesel fuel. With the support of RWE and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the use of LNG in typical port handling equipment is being demonstrated in a project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In addition, a mobile, multimodal LNG filling station has started operations. Inland ships are to be supplied with shore power at the beginning of 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duisport Group: [1]
- ↑ Stable in difficult times: Port of Duisburg with continuous growth in 2019 Duisport press release of April 21, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020
- ↑ The Duisburg port . In: Daily port report of March 27, 2020, special supplement No. 5 Container traffic & port logistics , p. 8
- ↑ duisport-Duisburger Hafen AG: Container handling remains at a record level. July 16, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Box handling dominates . In: Daily port report from February 15, 2019, p. 1
- ^ Duisport - Duisburger Hafen AG: The new silk road: transcontinental connections. In: www.duisport.de. duisport - Duisburger Hafen AG, November 1, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Stable in difficult times: Port of Duisburg with continuous growth in 2019 Duisport press release of April 21, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 (PDF file)
- ^ Duisport - Duisburger Hafen AG: Our responsibility. In: www.duisport.de. duisport - Duisburger Hafen AG, November 13, 2018, accessed on November 13, 2018 .