Regensburg harbor

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Regensburg harbor
Data
UN / LOCODE DE REG
owner Free State of Bavaria
operator Bayernhafen GmbH & Co. KG
opening Antiquity
Port type Inland port
Total area of ​​the port 175 ha
Piers / quays 5,200 m quay length
Throughput 1.50 million t (2017)
website http://www.donauhafen.de/
Geographic information
place regensburg
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Aerial view of Regensburg East Harbor
Aerial view of Regensburg East Harbor
Coordinates 49 ° 1 '20 "  N , 12 ° 7' 48"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '20 "  N , 12 ° 7' 48"  E
Port of Regensburg (Bavaria)
Regensburg harbor
Location of Regensburg harbor

The port of Regensburg includes several locations on the Danube in the area of ​​the city of Regensburg in Bavaria.

location

Port of Regensburg: location in the city area

The port of Regensburg consists of several port basins and lands . It is the northernmost port on the Danube and lies at river kilometers 2373 to 2379.

It is essentially divided into four sections:

  • Osthafen, (built 1960/61 and 1970–72) access at Danube kilometer 2773, right
  • Ölhafen, access at Danube kilometer 2776.4, right
  • Westhafen, built between 1906 and 1910 (Luitpoldhafen), driveway, at Danube kilometer 2776.4, on the right
  • Passenger shipping, in the southern arm of the Danube at kilometer 2779, left

history

The Celts and Romans already used the river. Forerunners located further upstream were various countries (vineyards, woodlands, etc.) and a winter port in the old town.

1926, cargo ships loaded with wood unloaded (Federal Archives)

19th century

In the middle of the 19th century, Regensburg was the end point of steam navigation on the Danube and was therefore of central importance. By connecting the Danube bank to the route of the Eastern Railway (Regensburg-Munich and Regensburg-Nuremberg), after the demolition of the city ​​walls on the eastern southern bank of the Danube, a new landing site fortified with quay walls was created in 1865, which was 1,300 m long at the end of the 19th century and reached as far as the old town of Regensburg. A grain warehouse was built there in 1890, which was destroyed in World War II. Elevated crane runways made it possible for the first time to transfer goods directly between ship and railroad.

Old harbor crane on the Danube land

20th century

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the capacity of the Danube was exhausted with an annual turnover of around 150,000 t. In 1906 the construction of new flood-free port facilities (basin 580 m long, 80 m wide) began. A smaller, separate petroleum port (basin 350 m long, 60 m wide) with its own storage area was built for the flammable oil products. In June 1910 the inauguration of the Luitpoldhafen (named after the then Prince Regent of Bavaria) took place. Between 1919 and 1923 the west port basin was extended by around 220 m to 800 m.

The port was largely destroyed during the Second World War. After the reconstruction, the cargo handling of 1938 was exceeded with 1.3 million tons from 1950. By the end of the 1950s, the throughput rose to 3 million. The urban development of the city of Regensburg did not allow a further enlargement of the western harbor. In two construction phases (1960/61 and 1970–72), the east port was built approx. 3 km downstream (basin 750 m long, 90 m wide). The harbor basin of the Waterways and Shipping Office was later built in the area of ​​the eastern harbor.

Rhine-Main-Danube Canal

The completion of the Main-Danube Canal in 1992 brought the greatest changes for the port of Regensburg in terms of traffic geography and hinterland connections. The function as a head port was lost. So it is not surprising that the handling volumes of these years mark a turning point in the history of the Port of Regensburg.

The Main-Danube Canal also opened up new opportunities and perspectives. Direct traffic connections to Western Europe and to the North Sea ports such as Rotterdam became possible. Due to these possibilities, the transport market was completely realigned. Today around 45% of the total volume is handled via the canal connection, and the trend is rising. Regensburg is developing more and more into a relay station at the transition between the technically different fleets of the Rhine and Danube shipping.

Modern harbor crane in the Westhafen

Modernization after the opening of Eastern Europe

After 1990, the port areas from the turn of the century were modernized to meet today's requirements:

In 1995 a new ro-ro facility was built. All transports can be carried out directly via them, without additional handling facilities such as B. cranes, from land to the ship (and vice versa).

From 1997, the bank facilities of the Westhafen-Nordkai, including the tracks, sewers, power supply and service routes, were renewed. The width of the harbor basin was also changed to a uniform 73 m. The old crane systems with load capacities up to 5 t were replaced by two modern systems with load capacities up to 45 t.

In 2005 a new terminal for the Rollende Landstrasse was put into operation. The first connection leads to Graz, 440 km away, and can relieve the roads by 13,000 truck trips annually.

At the end of 2006, a container terminal for transhipment from rail to road was put into operation at the Westhafen. In the so-called night jump, the port of Regensburg is connected to Bremerhaven four times a week and to the Hamburg overseas port five times a week. The terminal is to be expanded for trimodal handling (rail, truck, ship) in the medium term . Due to the significantly increased warehouse and transshipment activity, an expansion of the terminal is currently imminent.

In the spring of 2007, the modernization measures at the Osthafen were completed and new rail and crane tracks were laid over a quay length of around 600 m.

To improve and simplify operations, partial electrification was carried out in the port station in 2010, which enables the rolling road with electric locomotives without the previously required change of traction.

Westhafen in Regensburg
Stadtlagerhaus, listed silo building in the Westhafen

description

Commercial cargo handling is mainly operated by bayernhafen . The Port of Regensburg forms a central hub between the emerging economic areas in South-Eastern Europe and the core Western European areas. As part of the Regensburg freight center, it links the Danube and the (Rhine) -Main-Danube Canal with the A3 and A93 motorways as well as the railway lines to Weiden / Hof, Landshut / Munich, Nuremberg, Ingolstadt and Leipzig.

With the completion of the Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the 3,500 km long Rhine-Main-Danube waterway between the North Sea and the Black Sea became completely navigable again. Since then Regensburg has developed into a relay station at the fleet crossing between Rhine and Danube shipping. It is the port with the highest volume of ship cargo in Bavaria.

In 2005 almost 3.5 million tons of shipments were handled. By 2015, the throughput volumes had more than halved to less than 1.6 million.

90 companies from logistics, production, recycling, supply and services use the port as a business location and induce around 2,000 jobs in the region. Bayernhafen Regensburg itself employs 51 people in handling, maintenance and administration.

In 2016, the Port of Regensburg had 1,349,470 t of shipping goods traffic, a share of 18.81% of shipping goods traffic in Bavaria, which in 2016 totaled 7,174,477 t.

The water police are located in the east port .

statistics

Cargo handling according to modes of transport in the port of Regensburg

in a thousand tons

year ship train truck total
2000 2,300 460 2,310 5,070
2001 2.161 485 2,735 5,381
2002 2,453 578 2,842 5,873
2003 3,194 756 2,731 6,681
2004 3,462 723 2,702 6,886
2005 3,470 661 2,935 7,066
2006 2,403 1.104 3,303 6,810
2007 2,278 1,543 3,518 7,339
2008 2,505 1,786 3,413 7,704
2009 1,873 1,627 3,187 6,687
2010 1,642 2,089 3,652 7,383
2011 1,495 2,180 3,921 7,596
2012 1,563 1,978 4,073 7,614
2013 1,645 1,816 4,541 8.002
2014 2,199 1,824 4,371 8,394
2015 1,649 1,983 4,373 8.005
2016 1349 1,710 4,331 7,391
2017 1501

From the above The volume of goods handled results in 2016 as the share of the respective modes of transport (modal split) for shipping 18.3%, rail 23.1% and a truck share of 58.6%.

Ship freight traffic according to goods department 2013

Goods department goods reception shipping total proportion of
01 Agricultural and allied products 152,585 t 256,966 t 409,551 t 24.9%
02 Coal, crude oil and natural gas 5,527 t 3,946 t 9,473 t 0.6%
03 Ores, stones and earth 168,763 t 103,061 tons 271,824 t 16.5%
04 Food and beverage 171,052 t 23,655 t 194,707 t 11.8%
06 Wood goods, paper, cardboard, printed matter 2,678 t 432 t 3,110 t 0.2%
07 Coking and petroleum products 248,457 t 3,035 t 251,492 t 15.3%
08 Chemicals 126,110 t 20,952 t 147,062 t 8.9%
09 Other mineral products (glass, cement, etc.) 65,340 t 3,901 t 69,241 t 4.2%
10 Metals and Metal products 130,215 t 18,969 t 149,184 t 9.1%
14th Secondary raw materials, waste 130,506 t 130,506 t 7.9%
16 Equipment and material for goods handling. 1,898 t 1,898 t 0.1%
19th Not ident. Goods; unknown 1,116 t 5,747 t 6,863 t 0.4%
all in all 1,204,247 t 440,664 t 1,644,911 t 100%

Infrastructure

Harbor basin 4th
Quay length 5,200 meters
Total size of the port approx. 175 ha (this corresponds to an area of ​​around 246 football fields)
Track network port railway 36.2 km
Handling facilities Cranes up to max. 80 t on the hook in twin operation
Heavy goods plate 1
Roll-on-roll-off system 1
Terminal for the Rollende Landstrasse (RoLa) 1
Mineral oil pumping systems 4th
Pier for river cruise ships for up to 9 cruise ships with a length of 110 m each

Leisure and passenger shipping

The passenger shipping to keep using the border in the Danube south arm as a dock, as these public transport has -connection. On river cruise ships this is popular for going ashore to the old town.

There are two separate facilities for small vehicles ; On the one hand, there are several landing stages in the southern arm at Danube kilometers 2380 to 2381 on the left and the protected sports boat harbor at Sinzing (km 2387 on the left), close to the mouth of the Naab .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c cover 2017
  2. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 404 .
  3. On the importance of Regensburg as an oil site at this time see. Rainer Ehm: Bavaria, in particular Regensburg in the focus of the French and British air forces 1939–1941 (p. 305) on: heimatforschung-regensburg.de
  4. Cover of Regensburg Port 2005 to 2015 Regensburg Chamber of Commerce, March 2016
  5. Inland navigation in Bavaria in December and in 2016 . In: Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Statistical Reports, H II 1 m 12/2016 . March 2017, p.  15-17 ( online ).
  6. ^ WSP Regensburg
  7. a b Inland navigation in Bavaria in December and in 2004. (PDF; 878 kB) H21003 200412. In: Statistical reports. Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing, March 2005, p. 6 , accessed on March 9, 2014 .
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  9. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u bayernhafen Regensburg - Statistics 2013. (PDF; 924 kB) Bayernhafen GmbH & Co. KG, 2014, accessed on March 24, 2014 .
  10. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t bayernhafen Regensburg - Statistics 2014. (PDF; 2 MB) Bayernhafen GmbH & Co. KG, 2015, accessed on December 24, 2015 .
  11. a b c d e f g Statistics flyer 2016. (PDF) Retrieved on April 19, 2017 .
  12. Inland navigation in Bavaria in December 2013. (PDF; 527 kB) H21003 201312. In: Statistical reports. Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing, March 14, 2014, pp. 15-17 , accessed on March 14, 2014 .