Mehrum harbor

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Mehrum harbor
Data
UN / LOCODE DE MRU, DE HOJ
owner Hohenhameln community
operator Rhenus NVG and Raiffeisen Peine GmbH & Co. KG
start of building 1962
opening 1965
Port type Lands
Throughput 1.8 million t
Geographic information
place Mehrum
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Mehrum coal area
Mehrum coal area
Coordinates 52 ° 18 '39 "  N , 10 ° 5' 31"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '39 "  N , 10 ° 5' 31"  E
Port of Mehrum (Lower Saxony)
Mehrum harbor
Location Mehrum harbor

The port of Mehrum includes three lands and a turning bay in the area of ​​the municipality of Hohenhameln in the district of Peine , Lower Saxony .

geography

The Mehrum canal port is located at two, spatially somewhat separated locations, north of the town center on the federal waterway Mittellandkanal at an altitude of 65  m above sea level. NN , the apex posture of the canal.
300 m west of the harbor, the Burgdorfer Aue crosses under the Mittelland Canal in an 80 m long culvert . North forming power plant Mehrum a highly visible landmark .
Strictly speaking, the eastern half of the coal port and the turning bay are already in the urban area of Peine , but are logistically assigned to the port of Mehrum.

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Location:
waters - km
Port: description Quay length Furnishing
MLK 192.3 north Land Oil port 125 m, sloping Bollards , pumps, pipeline , tanks
MLK 192.0 south Land Raiffeisen Land 320 m, sponged Wheeled excavators; Conveyor equipment for bulk goods , bunker / heavy-duty slab , 2,400 m² warehouse
MLK 194.0 north Land Coal port 510 m, sponged 2 semi-portal cranes each with 135 m beam and trolleys, 7.5  hectares of open storage space, excavator , bulldozer
MLK 194.8 north Land Turning bay 2 × 150 m, sloping Bollard, bunker point 2 waiting places for commercial vessels , turning bay for ships up to 100 m length

history

In 1928 the Mittelland Canal was built near Mehrum and in 1929 it reached Peine, eight kilometers to the east . First, there was no need for their own harbor in Mehrum because no industry was settled and agricultural products with the then existing freight tram -Mehrum Sehnde in Sehnde or Hannover could be shipped.

This changed in the early 1960s, when both the freight tram service was discontinued and the Mehrum power station was rebuilt. In the course of upgrading and expansion work on the canal, the oil port was initially built , which supplied the power plant with heavy oil and went into operation in 1965. The tracks were then completely dismantled , built over or renatured .

Under the influence of the 1973 oil crisis , the heavy oil industry was abandoned and from then on, coal-fired power was used . The coal port was built in the late 1970s, when the former power plant units I and II were replaced by the still existing unit III around 1979.

A few years later, with further expansion work on the canal, the Raiffeisenlände south of the oil port was built. In 2009 another warehouse for 20,000 t of stored goods was added, which is connected directly to the pier via a belt conveyor system.

Commerce and infrastructure

Today the port of Mehrums essentially consists of two locations, the facilities of which are specially adapted to the respective purposes, each have their own operators and own resources.
The storage facilities there are specially designed to be able to cushion even extremely hard winters with several months of operational breaks on the canal. Since the 1990s, more industrial companies have gradually settled near the port. In the 2000s, a wind farm was added, which, together with solar energy, is supposed to make coal-fired power generation obsolete there from the 2030s.

traffic

Local roads open up all parts of the port to the federal highway 65 running one kilometer to the south . There are no rail or public transport connections. The port of Mehrums is therefore very unattractive for passenger shipping. Apart from short stopovers, it is also rather unsuitable for recreational boating.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kohlenhafen Mehrum ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.schiffundtechnik.com
  2. ^ History of the Mehrums power plant
  3. ^ Raiffeisen Peine-Mehrum, History
  4. Press report on the new Raiffeisenlände warehouse