Halle harbor (Saale)

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Halle (Saale) harbor basin with closed ice cover in winter
Aerial panorama of the port of Kröllwitz (as of 2017; the port entrance is on the left and the water surface on the far right is the Kröllwitz gravel pit)

The port of Halle is a freight traffic center with an inland port on the Saale in the area of ​​the city of Halle (Saale) . The owners are Stadtwerke Halle , operator of the container terminal, their 100% subsidiary Container Terminal Halle (Saale) GmbH, which is located there . It is located at Brachwitzer Straße 27-38 and is a cultural monument (registration number 094 66106).

Location and connection

The port is located between river kilometers 86.4 and 88 in the industrial area north of the Trotha district. The harbor basin is on the right side of the river.

The port is connected to the German road and rail network. The Saale is from the confluence with the Elbe to Bad Dürrenberg (river kilometer 124) federal waterway . The inland waterways regulations apply to shipping . The tracks of the Halle-Trotha port railway are connected to the Deutsche Bahn network. There is an indirect connection to the federal motorway 14 and the federal highway 6 via the port's own access road .

history

The gantry crane that has since been sold at the harbor basin

Due to its central location and the inadequate navigability of the Saale (only for ships up to 400 GRT), the urban Sophienhafen, opened in 1857, proved to be increasingly unsuitable for handling the growing demand for cargo handling. Therefore, the construction of a new port has been considered since 1916. The first concrete plans by the municipal civil engineering office were published in 1919; In 1923, the Halle city council decided to build a new port for ships up to 1000 GRT, and a site in the north of the city was chosen as the location. A first port basin was created between 1926 and 1931, a second (of up to four planned basins) was only to follow when required; Thanks to improved technology, this one tank proved to be completely sufficient in the period that followed. The port of Halle-Trotha, which was operated by Mitteldeutsche Hafen AG , founded in 1929, quickly developed into the largest transshipment point on the Saale (over 146,000 tons were handled as early as 1932). The expansion of the river between 1932 and 1942 and falling freight costs caused the volume of transport to rise steadily until the end of the Second World War .

The port, expropriated in 1946 by order of SMAD , was first transferred to the German Shipping and Handling Center in 1950 and was merged with the ports of Dessau-Wallwitzhafen , Aken (Elbe) and Klein-Wittenberg to form VEB inland ports "Saale" on January 1, 1957 ; In 1980 the name was changed to VEB inland ports "Middle Elbe" . While the throughput figures - primarily through goods such as lignite, building materials (concrete slabs) and agricultural products - had risen to over 400,000 tonnes per year by the early 1970s, this number fell rapidly in the following years. The main reason was the lack of investment in shipping on the Saale, so that the importance of the river as a transport route decreased continuously. Since only a few ships docked in the port from the 1980s onwards, it was primarily used as a storage area for lignite, while the facilities were becoming increasingly dilapidated.

In 1993 the port was transferred back to the city of Halle (Saale) and the Hafen Halle GmbH was founded. A development concept decided in 1994 envisaged the expansion of the port into a modern service center. In the following years, the facilities were modernized and the infrastructure expanded (renewal of the tracks, direct connection to the B 6 ). The handling figures in the port have increased again since then, but this mostly related to the handling of road to rail and vice versa; Due to the poor navigability of the Saale for so-called European ships , the volume of transport on the river is still very low.

Economical meaning

The port of Halle is very rarely called by cargo ships, usually at intervals of several months to years. The harbor basin is leased to a fishing company. The main field of activity of the port is the handling of goods between rail and road. The number of containers handled reached a preliminary high of 71,600 TEU in 2011.

Hafen Halle GmbH has been making losses since it was founded, for example in 2008 these amounted to EUR 0.88 million, EUR 0.599 million in 2009 and EUR 1.16 million in 2010. Losses were also planned for 2011 and 2012. For this reason, on May 9, 2012, the parliamentary group of the Greens in the city council applied for a closure concept to dissolve the Hafen Halle GmbH and to present it to the city council for a resolution. The city council postponed the decision several times until October 2014. The application was not dealt with publicly. The closure of the port was refused mainly because of subsidies of 30 million euros that would otherwise have to be repaid. The city council does not rule out a new application after the end of the commitment of the funds.

Due to the losses from port operations, Hafen Halle GmbH was terminated on January 30, 2018. The immobile assets were transferred to Stadtwerke Halle. As of January 30, 2018, CTHS GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stadtwerke Halle, was appointed to operate the container terminal. This leases the property from the municipal utilities and handles the transhipment between road and rail. This will reduce the losses of the previous port operations. According to information from the management of Stadtwerke, losses are still expected from the operation of the container terminal, as residual costs from depreciation and loans are incurred.

Furnishing

Harbor basin with the former loading crane and loading road (rail / truck)

The port's equipment includes a rail and road network, an industrial park, a port basin , a quay, track systems, scales, loading and unloading technology for containers and shunting locomotives. The operating company Hafen Halle GmbH has further commercial and industrial space. A loading crane intended for the crane runway along the harbor basin for loads of up to 45 tons was sold in 2014.

Others

The port of Halle-Trotha is classified as "important" by the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

In addition to companies in the logistics , recycling and biofuels sectors as well as the port administration, there is a station for the water police . The competent authority of the shipping administration is the Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg .

literature

  • Rainer Smiling / Uwe Schmidt: Quality of Life for the City - The History of the Stadtwerke Halle an der Saale. Hain-Verlag, Weimar and Jena 2005, ISBN 3-89807-080-8 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Answer of the state government to a short question for a written answer. List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Small request - KA 6/8670 . State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, March 15, 2015, p. 363.
  2. ↑ Ines Krause: Halle Harbor - Finally, a ship has arrived. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. June 28, 2011, accessed July 31, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Charlotte Zink and Katrin Löwe: Halle harbor - fish instead of ships. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. March 30, 2011, accessed July 31, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Michael Falgowski: Halle-Trotha harbor: No ships in the Trotha harbor . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  5. ^ Motion by the BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary group to dissolve Hafen Halle GmbH , city council information system for the city of Halle, draft resolutions and minutes of the meetings
  6. ↑ Silvia Zöller: Million deficits. What will happen to the Trotha harbor? In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, March 13, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017
  7. ↑ Successful container business: CTHS GmbH founded / Port is a thing of the past Press release from Stadtwerke Halle on March 9, 2018
  8. ↑ "Hafen Halle" no longer exists ( memento from March 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). MDR Saxony-Anhalt, March 10, 2018
  9. ↑ MZ article from June 6, 2014 : Halle's port is being dismantled (accessed on August 27, 2017)
  10. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: The port of Halle in the German river network@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hafen-halle.de
  11. ^ Bodo Müller: Map of the waters of Germany - Northeast. Edition Maritim, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-89225-341-2 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '30.9 "  N , 11 ° 56" 9.3 "  E