Wörth harbor
| Wörth harbor | |||
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| Data | |||
| UN / LOCODE | DE WOE | ||
| operator | Hafenbetriebe Ludwigshafen GmbH | ||
| opening | 1967 | ||
| Port type | Port and lands | ||
| Throughput | 916,292 tons | ||
| website | http://www.haefen-rlp.de/hafen-woerth.html | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Woerth on the Rhine | ||
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 3 '51 " N , 8 ° 18' 26" E | ||
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The port of Wörth is a port near Wörth am Rhein , Rhineland-Palatinate .
geography
It is located on the left bank of the Rhine at Rhine kilometer 365.77 near Wörth am Rhein , Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhineland-Palatinate port operations in Ludwigshafen . It is a trimodal port with connections to the A 65 , the B 9 and B 10 and the railway network. The port railway has a length of 5.1 km. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth , the largest truck plant in the world, is located directly next to the port . The port area covers 186 hectares and has a quay length of 1.9 km. Three container cranes with 40 or 47 tonnes and a stationary luffing crane with four tonnes of lifting capacity are available for handling . A covered handling facility with special handling equipment is available for handling paper. Two ro-ro ramps are set up for loading cars and trucks . The storage area is 153,000 m² open space and 27,734 m² hall space.
history
The port was opened in 1967. The harbor basin was created from a former quarry pond that was connected to the Rhine. The reason for the construction of the port was the settlement of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth and the Wörth refinery , which was located in the northwest of the port and used handling facilities for petroleum products. After the refinery was closed in 1996, the Palm paper mill went into operation in 2002 and is now handling paper there.
Goods and transport
The handling operators are Contargo Wörth Karlsruhe GmbH and the paper mill Palm GmbH & Co. KG .
The port of Wörth is one of the most important and efficient container terminals on the Upper Rhine , in 2014 143,378 TEU were handled. It is approached by container ships according to the schedule. At least 16 container ships are handled every week. Other cargo handled are sand, gravel, grit and motor vehicles. The worldwide shipping of auto parts is another mainstay of the port. In 2014, goods handled by ships amounted to 916,292 tonnes, with a total of 1,353 ships calling at the port.
Web links
- Operator of the container terminal
- Operator paper loading
- Vehicle loading
- Loading of building materials
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Wörth am Rhein: Special supplement “50 Years Contract between Daimler-Benz AG and the Wörth Municipality” ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 25, 2010, written by Albert Ritter, accessed on January 21, 2014.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 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. Data on the port
