Eemshaven
| province |
 Groningen
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| local community |
 Het Hogeland
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 27 ′ N , 6 ° 50 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
 
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| prefix | 0596 |
| Postcodes | 9909, 9979, 9981, 9984 |
| Website | http://www.eemshaven.com/ |
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Eemshaven is a seaport in the northeast of the Netherlands . The port belongs to the municipality of Het Hogeland (until 2018 Eemsmond ) and is located in the province of Groningen on the south-western side of the Ems estuary .
geography
The freight and ferry port is located at the mouth of the Ems in the Wadden Sea region of the southern North Sea across from the East Frisian municipality of Krummhörn and south of the island of Borkum .
Access from the lake or the Ems is via the Doekegat Canal (in the fairway 13.3 meters of water above sea chart zero ) from Doekegat (Dukegat). A pilot service is offered (Eemshaven pilot) . The port is organized by Groningen Seaports .
The port has both a rail connection for freight and passenger traffic as an extension of the Sauwerd – Roodeschool railway line and is connected by the Dutch national roads N46 with the provincial capital of Groningen, a good 30 kilometers south-west, and with the port town of Delfzijl , 20 kilometers south-east, via the N33 .
history
Construction of the port began in the early 1970s on the site of a newly diked polder ; in 1973 the facilities were opened. The port now consists of four docks:
- Julianahaven (11.6–14.6 m above sea level )
- Emmahaven (7.1–8.1 m)
- Wilhelminahaven (13.3-15.5 m)
- Beatrixhaven (7.1–8.6 m, since 2015: up to 10.5 m)
The Wilhelminahaven was extended to the east in 2011. The Beatrixhaven, which was commissioned by Queen Beatrix in 2008, was expanded in 2014/2015. Another port basin for an LNG terminal was to be built north of the Wilhelminahaven , which has not yet been built for reasons of profitability, but is still being planned. The approach from the Ems to the harbor basin is called Doekegat Kanaal , whose fairway was deepened to 13.3 meters in 2015.
economy
In addition to its function as a freight and transshipment port for various companies (e.g. Wagenborg , Holland Malt, Orange Blue ), Eemshaven also serves as an equipment port for the cruise ships built at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg on the Ems . There are no facilities for recreational shipping in Eemshaven.
Eemshaven also serves as a ferry port, from here the shipping company AG Ems runs several times a day to the German island of Borkum. The journey time by ferry to Borkum is around 50 minutes. A daily ferry connection to Rosyth in Scotland is being planned.
Handling figures in maritime transport
| in 1000 tons | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total turnover | 729 | 617 | 1,143 | 1,584 | 1,743 | 2,187 | 2.016 | 2,755 | 2,527 | 3,444 | 2,052 |
The search engine group Google Inc. uses one of the largest data centers in Europe in Eemshaven . It is operated by the TCN company.
Energy industry
Eemshaven plays an important role in the Dutch energy supply :
The high-voltage direct current -Leitung NorNed linking the Norwegian and Dutch power grid. The converter station for the 580 km long submarine cable is located in Eemshaven .
The port area has also been used as a location for wind turbines since the 1990s . This includes the Westereems wind farm . As part of repowering , older systems have been and are being replaced by more powerful ones.
The Belgian energy supply company Engie Electrabel has been operating the combined cycle power station Eemscentrale in the east of Eemshaven since 1977 .
The Dutch energy supply company Nuon has been operating the Magnum combined cycle power plant since 2013 .
In 2009, the German energy supply company RWE began building a new coal-fired power plant, the Eemshaven (RWE) power plant, with a net output of around 1560 MW , which should start operating in 2013. In the summer of 2011, the building permit was initially withdrawn from this power plant due to the feared negative effects on the Wadden Sea and the East Frisian Islands . It is not possible to revise the decision of the State Council , but it was possible to apply for the permits for the power plant again. However, a few days later, Minister of Economics Maxime Verhagen announced that the missing permits could still be granted and that the power plant could continue to be built. In June 2012, the building permit was finally granted again.
Eemshaven provides firms with the offshore - wind energy as a building, warehouse and base port for offshore wind turbines . In the meantime, 16 offshore wind farms have been erected over Eemshaven. Eemshaven also serves as a maintenance and service base for the Gemini , Veja Mate , Merkur and Deutsche Bucht wind farms (a total of 316 turbines, as of September 2019). A helicopter landing pad was opened in 2019 to provide support .
Web links
- www.groningen-seaports.com Official website
literature
Volkmar Kayser, Elsche Wilts: Eemshaven's energy plans encounter resistance . In: Waterkant , issue 4/08, p. 27, publisher: Förderkreis Waterkant eV, Emsdetten 2008, ISSN 1611-1583
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Eemshaven: Powerful tailwind · The last construction phase for offshore handling is rapidly approaching completion . In: Daily port report of May 22, 2014, p. 13
- ↑ Orange Blue Terminal is firmly established · Large projects are being handled by Buss Offshore in Eemshaven · Competition for German port locations . In: Daily port report from September 15, 2015, special supplement Offshore , p. 7
- ↑ Brexit: Scots plan a ferry to Eemshaven. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ^ Zeit Online - Daniel Metzger: Google's backup on the North Sea from September 11, 2008
- ^ Eemshaven power plant (Netherlands), RWE
- ↑ No coal-fired power plant at the mouth of the Ems The Hague stops RWE . In: ntv.de , August 24, 2011, accessed on August 24, 2011
- ↑ Coal-fired power plant on the Ems continues to be built . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 19, 2012, accessed on June 19, 2012
- ^ First helicopter flight to the Eemshaven heliport. In: windkraft-journal.de. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .