Gelsenkirchen harbor

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The commercial port with the branch into the industrial port basin
Gas tanks on the south side in the industrial port
Grain loading in the industrial port

The port of Gelsenkirchen is located on the Rhine-Herne Canal . It is an important transshipment point for mineral oil products and the second most important inland port for grain in North Rhine-Westphalia . The total throughput in the last ten years averaged over two million tonnes (t), of which around 1.2 million t were water throughput, per year. The port is operated by the Gelsenkirchener Logistik-, Hafen- und Servicegesellschaft , a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Gelsenkirchen .

The port was opened on July 13, 1914. Today the port area comprises 1.2 million m² of total area and two docks of the commercial and industrial port with a water area of ​​117,800 m². It can coupling and 2-he pushed convoys are deleted or larger motor vessels with a draft of up to 2.8 meters and with a load capacity of up to 4,800 tons. The port area is connected to the DB Netz rail network . There is also a non-publicly operated railway with 18.4 kilometers of track network, which has an annual turnover of around 1 million tons.

Overview for cargo handling in 2002:

Goods area Cargo handling
in 1,000 t
Agricultural products 195
Food and feed 57
coal 52
Petroleum products 265
Scrap, non-ferrous metal ores 110
Iron, steel and non-ferrous metals 313
Stones and earth 50
Chemicals 219
Capital goods 7th
Consumer goods 1
total 1,269

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waterway traffic and port concept NRW, 2004

Web links

Commons : Hafen Gelsenkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 8 ″  E