Minden harbor
| Minden harbor | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE MID | ||
| owner | City of Minden | ||
| operator | Mindener Hafen GmbH and others | ||
| opening | 1552 on the Weser 1910 on the Mittelland Canal |
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| Port type | Ports and Lands | ||
| website | Minden harbor | ||
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| place | Minden | ||
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 18 '9 " N , 8 ° 56' 36" E | ||
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The port of Minden is an inland port in the East Westphalian city of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The ports are laid out around the Minden waterway intersection on the Mittelland Canal and the Weser . These federal waterways connect Minden with the seaports on the Lower Weser and in Hamburg . The ports on the Mittelland Canal are at a height of 50.3 m above sea level. NN , the industrial port at 44.1 m above sea level. NN and those on the Weser at 37.2 m above sea level. NN .
There are four docks, the west port ⊙ and the east port ⊙ directly on the Mittelland Canal, as well as the industrial port ⊙ with two docks on the south descent and the construction port ⊙ on the north descent .
The port of Schlagde ⊙, which is now only used by passenger ships, and the little-used Old Weserhafen ⊙ with the Weser shipyard in Minden also exist on the Weser .
In the district of Hahlen there is also a separate marina for recreational boating ⊙ with 65 berths for small vehicles .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
history
The stacking rights granted by Emperor Karl V to the Hanseatic city of Minden on January 4, 1552, obliged all Weser boatmen to unload their goods in the city and offer them for sale. As a result, the first pier on the Weser was built in 1572, the so-called Schlagde . The term “Schlagde” is derived from the Low German word “slait” (= “to beat”): Heavy logs were cut into the ground in order to create a stable berth for merchant ships. The port was expanded in 1763 and the first crane was added in 1780. As part of the construction of the Mittelland Canal, the Westhafen, the descent port and the industrial port were created in 1910. The Weser shipyard in Minden also settled here . In the industrial port in Minden, containers have been handled with increasing turnover since 2002, this also takes place in the trimodality .
The Westhafen has been leased by the entrepreneur Frank Heitmann since 2003 and the area has been further expanded through takeover. In 2013 there was a legal dispute over the port's noise emissions, as a result of which loading times were limited.
The port facilities
Today, Mindener Hafen is operated by Mindener Hafen GmbH. The port area covers an area of 65 hectares, of which 11.4 hectares are water. The water depth is between 2.50 and 3.50 meters. The port can be called by coupling and 2-person push convoys as well as by larger motor ships with a loading depth of up to 2.8 m or a loading capacity of up to 4,500 t (only in the east and west ports directly on the Mittelland Canal). All parts of the port have a siding so that trimodal offers, i.e. the coupling of the modes of transport water, rail and road, can be used. In addition to food and feed, containers are increasingly being handled at the container terminal in Industriehafen II. Besides the port of Dortmund, the port of Minden is the only public canal port in North Rhine-Westphalia with facilities for container handling. To the east, the next port with container handling and trimodal connection is the north port in Hanover.
Development prospects
Since summer 2008, the port of Minden has been cooperating with the ports of Preussisch Oldendorf , Lübbecke , Espelkamp , Hille and Bückeburg , which are neighboring on the Mittelland Canal , under the name Hafenband , in order to better market their ports along the Mittelland Canal. In 2016, the partner ports handled 1,335,000 tons and 179,294 TEU. The port of Minden occupies a special position due to the connection for container traffic with the northern German seaports, in particular Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven. Ship traffic is to be expanded here, after the Mittelweser and the locks at the Minden waterway intersection have been expanded for large motor cargo ships . This means that large motor ships come via the Mittelweser that can call at Minden harbor. There, the capacity of the existing container terminal in the port of Minden will be expanded. A new portalkarn with a quay wall of 200 meters in length and additional areas will expand the area in the Mindener Hafen from 2015. Further east on the Mittelland Canal, a new container terminal under the name RegioPort Weser is to be built on an area of approx . This is to be built between the Dankersen district of Minden and the Cammer and Berenbusch districts of Bückeburg .
The trimodality also enables transshipment in the port of Minden from trucks to trains. The Tönnies company is currently making increasing use of this with new transport routes.
| Goods area | 2002 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural products | 33 | 80 |
| Food and feed | 163 | 176 |
| coal | 0 | 3 |
| Petroleum products | 0 | 5 |
| Chemical products | 1 | 15th |
| Capital goods | 1 | 0 |
| Consumer goods | 32 | 9 |
| total | 230 | 288 |
The container throughput in the port of Minden tripled between 2002 and 2004 to around 5,000 TEU and increased further to 13,500 TEU by 2006. In 2016, it was 15,214 TEUs, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) .
Locks
The shaft lock, completed in 1914, and the Weser lock, completed in 2017, are located in the port of Minden . After commissioning, the shaft lock will mainly be used for passenger traffic. The Weserschleuse offers a connection to the ports in Bremen and Bremerhaven as well as to the port of Hamburg via the Mittelland Canal with large motor ships that meet contemporary requirements .
traffic
The port of Minden is connected to the rail network of Deutsche Bahn via the tracks of the Mindener Kreisbahnen . Local roads open up the ports to Bundesstrasse 61 , Bundesstrasse 482 and Bundesstrasse 65 . All parts of the port are served by the OWL Verkehrsbetriebe in public transport ; the old shipyard harbor is only 400 m from Minden train station .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Monika M. Schulte, Shipping on the Weser near Minden, website of the city of Minden http://www.minden.de/internet/page.php?site=7000030&typ=2 Accessed on June 13, 2009
- ↑ Taken over from Schlachte (Bremen)
- ↑ Website of Mindener Hafen GmbH, heading history and development http://www.mindener-hafen.de/ retrieved on September 25, 2007
- ↑ Mindener Hafen: Logistics overview , accessed on August 15, 2018.
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Lärm am Mindener Westhafen: Millions of Stumbling Blocks Issue of June 21, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2013
- ↑ Waterway traffic and port concept of North Rhine-Westphalia, status: January 31, 2005, published by the Ministry of Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, page 80, no longer online
- ↑ Homepage Hafenband: General , accessed on August 15, 2018.
- ↑ Homepage Hafenband: Ten years of container handling in the port of Minden , accessed on August 15, 2018.
- ↑ Homepage of the operators of the Regio Ports Minden: Timetable , accessed on January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Port band: ten years container handling at the port Minden , accessed on 15 August 2018th
- ↑ Waterway traffic and port concept of North Rhine-Westphalia, status: January 31, 2005, published by the Ministry of Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, page 92, no longer online
- ↑ Waterway traffic, inland ports and logistics in North Rhine-Westphalia, status: February 2008, published by the Ministry for Transport, Energy and State Planning of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, page 36 http://www.mbv.nrw.de/verkehr/Strassenverkehr/container /Hafenkonzept.pdf ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Management report of the IHK Ostwestfalen for the inland port Minden , accessed on August 20, 2018.
