Sassnitz ferry port

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Sassnitz ferry port
Logo of the Sassnitz ferry port
Data
UN / LOCODE DEMUK
operator Ferry port Sassnitz GmbH
start of building 1982
opening 2nd October 1986
Port type seaport
Throughput 2.2 million tons / year (2018)
website www.mukran-port.de
Geographic information
place Mukran , Sassnitz
country Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Country Germany
Ferry port with the offshore terminal (2015)
Ferry port with the offshore terminal (2015)
Coordinates 54 ° 29 '11 "  N , 13 ° 35' 19"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 29 '11 "  N , 13 ° 35' 19"  E
Sassnitz ferry port (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Sassnitz ferry port
Location Sassnitz ferry port

The Sassnitz ferry port is a German seaport on the Baltic Sea in the Mukran district of the city of Sassnitz . It is located on the Prorer Wiek in the east of the island of Rügen . The port was opened in October 1986 as the Mukran Ferry Terminal for the Mukran – Klaipėda ferry route . The Sassnitz GmbH acts as operator of the port since May 2016 under the brand Mukran Port .

General

Pier from the sea side

From Sassnitz there are ferry lines to Sweden , Denmark ( Bornholm ), Lithuania and Russia . With a cargo turnover of around five million tons per year, the Sassnitz ferry port is the third largest German Baltic Sea port.

The port is operated by Fährhafen Sassnitz GmbH based in Neu Mukran.

On the grounds of the Sassnitz ferry port, an industrial area of around 23 hectares was developed for relocation between 2013 and the beginning of 2015 for 9.8 million euros . For this purpose, EU funds were used to improve the regional economic structure in the amount of 5.5 million euros.

Since 2018, two more strings ( Nord Stream 2 ) have been laid for the expansion of the more than 1200 kilometers long two-string Nord Stream gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany . For this 2016 steel pipes were from as early as October Ruhr area with the railway delivered and stored in the port. Within two years, 612 trains with almost 150 steel pipes each were unloaded in Mukran. From summer 2017, these were coated with concrete by Wasco Coatings Europe . The works of the French pipeline builder Eupec , which had already been built for the completion of the pipes for the first two strands of the Nord Stream pipeline, were used for this purpose.

Loading of a ferry of the Königslinie in Sassnitz

Railway ferry port

The ferry port Sassnitz is the largest German today railway ferry , and he is the only port in central Europe over railway tracks of the Russian broad gauge . There are three piers for handling the rail ferries. Two of them are two-story and designed in Russian broad gauge.

The importance of wagon loading has declined more and more in recent years. In the 2000s , between 60,000 and 70,000 wagons per year were still hauled here by rail ferries, with the majority coming or going from or to Sweden. In 2015 there were only 1500 wagons.

Railway systems

Rail loading 2014

The 340 hectare area has a direct connection to the Stralsund – Sassnitz railway line . It is divided into a standard gauge section with 48 kilometers of track and a broad gauge section with 24 kilometers of track. Here there is the possibility of handling railway wagons with the broad gauge with 1520 millimeters gauge used in Finland , Russia and the Baltic countries . The broad gauge area offers several options for reloading the goods. In addition to five reloading halls, crane systems , a transfer system for liquid goods and a dangerous goods ramp, the gauging system from wide to standard gauge and vice versa is the central interface. Here the freight wagons are raised and the bogies are exchanged for those of the other track width. A wide-gauge variant of the DR series V 60 with SA-3- compatible center buffer couplings of the INTERMAT type is used for shunting tasks. The loading and unloading facilities are directly connected to the two double-decker broad-gauge ferry docks . The ferry docks each have five tracks in order to keep the loading and unloading times short.

For reasons of stability, the ships are loaded and unloaded simultaneously and with the same number of wagons on two tracks. When unloading, first the two middle tracks on the upper deck, then the two outer tracks and finally the middle track are removed, then this happens on the main deck in the same order. Loading takes place in reverse order.

Other port facilities

Mukran pier , behind the construction of further berths at the pier

The port of Mukran Port has a total of 19 berths for ships up to 365 meters in length and 9.5 meters in draft ; three more berths are under construction on the inside of the north pier in 2019. In addition to rail ferries , RoRo ferries , general cargo and bulk cargo ships as well as cruise ships can be handled. In the eastern part of the port there is a quay directly at a fish processing plant.

For heavy load handling, especially for the offshore industry, an area of ​​six hectares was raised in 2013/2014 for 24 million euros. The berth 3a located here was specially designed for the loading of heavy cargo and wind turbines for offshore wind farms , so that installation vessels can take cargo here . In 2016/2017, berth 10 in the eastern area was expanded for heavy goods loading (offshore industry). In August 2016, a bulk goods unloading point for grain handling was put into operation. More berths will be created on the inside of the eastern pier in 2018-2020.

Landside transport links

On the railway side, the Stralsund – Sassnitz line connects via the Ziegelgraben Bridge to Stralsund and thus connects via the Stralsund – Rostock line to Rostock and via the Berlin Northern Railway or the Angermünde – Stralsund line and the Berlin-Stettin line to Berlin .

On the road side, the port is connected to the B 96b ( E 22 ), with the B 96 (E 22 and E 251 ) via the Rügen Bridge with Stralsund and via a motor road with the A 20 .

The ferry port from Sassnitz train station can be reached by public transport buses on lines 18 (direct) or line 22 (also from the direction of Binz, approx. 20 minutes' walk from the “Dubnitz” stop) operated by the Vorpommern-Rügen (VRR) transport company.

history

As early as 1909, the Sassnitz city harbor was used as a railway ferry port for the royal line to Trelleborg (Sweden). From 1963 there were plans for a ferry connection between the GDR and the Soviet Union . The starting point of the ferries on the GDR side should be the Mövenort port on the north coast of the island of Rügen. These plans were rejected; new plans for the construction of a ferry connection began in 1977. From 1982 the ferry port in Mukran was built as one of the last major transport construction projects in the GDR for two billion GDR marks . In particular, it was supposed to create an efficient ferry connection for goods traffic with the Lithuanian Klaipėda (Memel), which at the time belonged to the Soviet Union , in order to avoid the lengthy land route, which was costly due to transit fees, and which was also due to the political at the time for the transport of goods from the GDR to the Soviet Union Situation in Poland had become unsafe. At the port expansion also numerous were construction soldiers of the NVA involved.

The ferry service on the connection from Mukran to Klaipėda began in October 1986 and was expanded to include a liner service with five railway ferries by 1989. Until the end of the GDR , the area was cordoned off from the surrounding area and not generally accessible. In the early 1990s to July 1994, a large part of the Soviet armed forces stationed in the GDR were transported home via Mukran. The bases for this were regulated in the context of the reunification of Germany in the residence and withdrawal contract. One in 2009 through the initiative of thought-MAL-Prora under preservation asked watchtower reminds us of the former border crossing point. Multiple efforts to protect one of the last intact GDR-typical supply facilities for the soldiers and later also the civilian construction workers of the port - the “Mukran supplier” - failed. The building, which was used as a restaurant until 2013, was gutted in 2016.

After 1990 the port in Mukran, which until then had been used exclusively for freight and military traffic with the Soviet Union, was given additional tasks. Because of the capacity limits in the Sassnitz city harbor, a new ferry terminal was built from 1995 and extensive renovation and expansion work was carried out on the existing jetties in order to accommodate the then increasing passenger traffic to Scandinavia . After two years of expansion, the largest German railway ferry port on the Baltic Sea was opened on January 7, 1998. From this day on, the royal line operated from the port of Mukran, which at that time was called the “Sassnitz Ferry Port”.

From 2001 the shipping company DFDS Seaways operated the railway ferry line to Klaipėda in Lithuania . However, due to the continually declining rail car traffic, this has become uneconomical in recent years and therefore stopped at the end of September 2013.

In early 2011, took Sassnitz GmbH total of 22 km broad gauge tracks of DB Netz and has Hafenbahn Baltic Port Rail Mukran as a subsidiary established. The transshipment of railway goods ( general cargo and heavy goods ) in broad-gauge traffic was taken over at the beginning of 2011 by the then DB Schenker Rail (today DB Cargo ) by the Hamburg Buss Group , which founded the subsidiary Buss Rail Terminal Sassnitz GmbH for this purpose , which is part of the business area Buss Ports belongs. On July 26, 2013, for economic reasons, DB Netz tendered the approximately five-kilometer section from the Borchtitz junction to the new Sassnitz ferry port and all of the standard-gauge railway station facilities for other railway infrastructure companies to take over . DB AG would also like to sell the approximately 130 hectare standard gauge area with 48 kilometers of track length of DB Netz; Negotiations with the port operator were ongoing in May 2016.

From June 2012 there was a regular ferry line between Sassnitz-Mukran and Ust-Luga (via Baltijsk ), on which Russian broad gauge railway wagons were also hauled. This line was expanded in July 2014 to include the destinations Klaipėda and Copenhagen .

From June 2014 rail vehicles were only sporadically hauled to and from Sweden, because Stena Line had relocated freight traffic to Rostock and passenger traffic (Berlin - Malmö night train) is only operated seasonally.

The extensive track systems in Mukran were used for years by the DB AG standstill management to park old and no longer needed passenger wagons, electric locomotives and diesel ICEs.

At the beginning of 2020, with the container ship SVS Vega as part of the New Silk Road, the ferry traffic between Russia ( Baltijsk ) and the Mukran Port under the name Baltic Sea Bridge was set up by Mukran Port Terminals GmbH and Co.KG, which also handles shortsea traffic for the the near Baltic Sea region. Further partners of the company are the Bahn Operator GmbH , the shipping company BREB , the railway company Potsdam (EGP) and the Russian-Kazakh-Belarusian railway company UTLC ERA (United Transport and Logistics Company - Eurasian Rail Alliance) based in Moscow.

At the beginning of August 2020, the Fährhafen Sassnitz GmbH was threatened by the Republican Senators Ted Cruz , Tom Cotton and Ron Johnson of the USA in the event that they continued to participate in the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, substantial economic and legal sanctions that would affect the port from the USA " perform commercially and financially ”.

Sassnitz ferry operated by Stena Line until March 2020
Ferry ship Povl anchor for Bornholm traffic

Line bus traffic

The following ferry connections were or are available from the Sassnitz ferry port:

literature

  • Wulf Krentzien: The Sassnitz ports and their ferry traffic . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-016-9 .
  • Harm Sievers: On the broad gauge to the east. Positive prospects for the Sassnitz / Mukran ferry port. In: Güterbahnen , Issue 1/2009, ISSN  1610-5273 , pp. 32–35.
  • Wolfgang Klietz: Baltic ferries in the Cold War . Ch. Links, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-86153-673-0 .
  • Wolfhart Fabarius: Mukran: Offshore boom instead of ferry traffic . In: Daily port report of October 20, 2016, p. 3.
  • Anne-Katrin Wehrmann: From the ferry port to the project manager . In: Hansa , issue 6/2017, pp. 84/85.

Web links

Commons : Fährhafen Sassnitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handling in Sassnitz-Mukran increases: 2.2 million t in 2018 . In: Hansa , issue 3/2019, p. 82
  2. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: "Mukran Port" as a new brand . In: Daily port report from May 3, 2016
  3. ↑ Bornholmslinjen - year-round direct ferries from only 19 euros. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ New industrial park for Sassnitz. The handling of goods at the ferry port has almost halved within 13 years. In: Daily port report of February 6, 2015, p. 3
  5. ↑ Frank Binder: Baltic Sea: Nord Stream creates facts · First steel pipes of the controversial pipeline from Russia to Germany for further processing on Rügen . In: Daily port report of October 28, 2016, p. 3
  6. ↑ Peter Kleinort: Start of production for pipe works · Work on second Baltic Sea pipeline "Nord Stream 2" begins · Laying from 2018 . In: Daily port report of May 10, 2017, p. 15
  7. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Deutsche Bahn: Withdrawal from the port of Mukran · Standard gauge network is to be sold . In: Daily port report of 10 May 2016, p. 3
  8. ↑ Hafenplan , mukran-port.de, accessed on June 19, 2019
  9. ↑ Thomas Schwandt: Wind of Change in the ferry port. Offshore wind farms off the West Pomeranian coast offer Sassnitz new perspectives as a construction and service port . In: NNN of December 10, 2014, p. 15
  10. ↑ Sassnitz relies on offshore industry · The location on the east coast of Rügen is moving away from the ferry business and transforming itself into a base and service port . In: Daily port report from November 13, 2015, special supplement Baltic Sea / Ostseehäfen , p. 5
  11. ↑ Huge pipe storage facility on Rügen's east coast · Mukran Port acts as the base location for the construction of the “Nord Stream 2” pipeline and other offshore projects . In: Daily port report of November 21, 2017, p. 4
  12. ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Mukran: Offshore boom instead of ferry traffic · In addition to heavy loads, Sassnitz relies on grain handling . In: Daily port report of October 20, 2016, p. 3
  13. ↑ Arrival - Mukran Port. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Chris-Marco Herold: Watchtower in Mukran becomes a memorial. In: Ostseezeitung , December 31, 2009
  15. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Ashes on your head! About the fight against the collective rejection of the GDR past in Prora on Rügen. Volume 3, Projekt-Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-86237-888-3 , available at http://www.denk-mal-prora.de/AscheaufsHaupt2012.pdf , p. 79 ff.
  16. ↑ Marcel Brech: DFDS Seaways closes the ferry line between Sassnitz and Klaipeda. (No longer available online.) August 30, 2013, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; accessed on August 31, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schiffe-und-kreuzfahrten.de
  17. ↑ Sassnitz ferry port expands its activities with the port railway. Schlotmann: Operation is becoming more flexible. Press release No. 99/11. Ministry of Transport, Building and Regional Development, April 20, 2011, accessed April 20, 2011 .
  18. ↑ Buss Ports continues to invest heavily in the future. In: Port of Hamburg Magazine , No. 2/11, p. 16, Hafen Hamburg Marketing eV, Hamburg 2011
  19. ↑ Deutsche Bahn sells tracks in Sassnitz. In: ndr.de , accessed on August 26, 2016
  20. ↑ Stena Line relocates rail traffic from Sassnitz to Rostock. In: svz.de. Newspaper publisher Schwerin, April 24, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 25, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Berlin Night Express 2019. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Benjamin Klare: "Baltic Sea Bridge" at Mukran Port · Port sets up liner service between Sassnitz and Baltijsk as part of the New Silk Road . In: Daily port report of March 26, 2020, p. 4
  23. ↑ US senators threaten the German ferry port Sassnitz In: spiegel.de , accessed on August 6, 2020
  24. ^ Mukran Port: Line services
  25. ↑ Bornholmslinjen - year-round direct ferries from only 19 euros. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Timo Jann: New perspectives for Lubmin and Mukran · Rügen: Ferry service to Bornholm started again. In: Daily port report from June 16, 2020, p. 3
  27. ↑ New Baltic Sea Route · Tallink sets up a new connection for freight traffic to and from Rügen in order to secure the transport of goods . In: Daily port report of March 23, 2020, p. 2
  28. ↑ Timo Jann: Tallink sends special ferry · Home travel option started on the sea route between Rügen and Riga . In: Daily port report from March 19, 2020, p. 13