Haifa port
| Haifa port | |||
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| Data | |||
| UN / LOCODE | ILHFA | ||
| owner | Israeli cabinet | ||
| operator | Seamanship and Ports Authority רשות הספנות והנמלים | ||
| opening | 1933 | ||
| Port type | Freight (container, chemical) and passenger ports | ||
| Passengers | 211,756 (2009) | ||
| Goods handled | 26 million tons | ||
| Container (TEU) | 1,300,000 | ||
| website | haifaport.co.il | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Haifa | ||
| district | Haifa district | ||
| Country | Israel | ||
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 49 '59 " N , 35 ° 0' 14" E | ||
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The port of Haifa ( Hebrew : נמל חיפה) is a natural deep-water port in the Israeli city of Haifa , which is used by passenger and cargo ships all year round. It is the largest international seaport in Israel in front of the ports in Ashdod and Eilat and one of the ports with the highest volume of goods in the eastern Mediterranean . The port is divided into different usage areas. In addition to a military part, there are several industrial parts and a passenger port. The port is operated by the state-owned port operating company of Israel. Several manufacturing industrial companies are attached to the port.
Location and history
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The port is located in the elongated bay of Haifa. Historically, the port is closely linked to its location in the bay: except on the Carmel coast near Dor and further north near Achsiv , shipping could not use any natural ports.
When the Crusaders took Haifa around 1100, the city's port flourished. The most important sea route to Tiberias , the capital of Galilee , led via Haifa . During the reign of the Mamluks , the port was forgotten, while the nearby port of Acre became the most important transshipment point in this stretch of coast and remained for centuries.
The catchment area of the Bay of Haifa was sparsely populated for a long time because extensive swamps made economic use and settlement very difficult. The area was considered a retreat for privateers.
The port of Akko was increasingly silting up and from the beginning of the 20th century it was no longer possible for ships with larger drafts to call at the port north of Haifa. Theodor Herzl , the founder of political Zionism, described the future city of Haifa and its port in his novel Altneuland in 1902 .
Twenty years later, in 1922, at the instigation of the British, the port in Haifa was expanded. It was primarily intended as a naval port for the English troops and was built with a harbor basin that was protected and deepened by two breakwaters. It was officially inaugurated on October 31, 1933 by Arthur Wauchope , then British High Commissioner for Palestine . The port was an important condition for the flourishing development of the city of Haifa. In 1936 Haifa already had 100,000 inhabitants and the port became the main landing point for thousands of immigrants after the Second World War .
From 1936 to 1939 an oil refinery with an oil shipping port was built, fed by a crude oil pipeline from northern Iraq.
The Second World War had a direct impact on the port in 1940, when Italian planes stationed in Rhodes bombed Haifa on July 15 and 24 and on September 21. In addition to the port, their goals were the large oil refineries. The attacks killed 50 people on July 24 and 39 people on September 21.
Infrastructure
Ships over 500 meters in length can be handled in the port of Haifa; the entrance is up to 12.2 meters deep, at the loading piers up to 4.6 meters and the oil terminals up to 10 meters deep. Loading cranes with a capacity of up to 100 tons are available. The port has a port pilot and tug service .
The state-owned project development and implementation company Israel Ports Development & Assets Company Ltd. (IPC) Ltd. is responsible for the economic development and administration of all three Israeli seaports. In 2009 the IPC completed the “Carmel” terminal for 100 million shekels . The container terminal is equipped with six cranes that can handle Postpanamax ships and twelve loading cranes on rails. It fulfills the requirements for the automatic detection of vehicles and drivers.
Economic data
In freight transport, container handling has by far the largest share at 67 percent, followed by 12 percent grain and 11 percent oil. Liquid chemicals, other goods and bulk goods make up the rest (as of 2012).
Port areas
Passenger shipping
Several passenger ships can be handled at the same time at the port's passenger terminal. The terminal has a number of shops and facilities for travelers, including duty-free shops and a branch of the Israel Interior Ministry .
Haifa naval base
The naval base Haifa (בסיס חיפה) abbreviated Ba "Ch , in the northwestern part of the port is the main base for the Israeli navy . Here is the Naval Academy and the base of the Israeli underwater use units (frogmen). In Haifa include missile boat -Flottille, the submarine flotilla and the submarine school, as well as parts of the patrol boat flotilla and an underwater response unit, some of the submarines are armed with nuclear weapons.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passenger Traffic (English), haifaport.co.il, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ a b Shanghai's SIPG wins 25-year container terminal concession in Haifa. simic.net.cn, March 27, 2015, accessed July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ History of the Port of Haifa on its website , accessed July 9, 2017.
- ↑ Jörg Armbruster: Welcome to the Promised Land ?: Jews of German descent in Israel . Ed .: Hoffmann and Campe. 2016, ISBN 3-455-85177-0 ( google.de ).
- ↑ SeaRates LP: Port of Haifa (Israel): Information and Characteristics. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Port Development - Hacarmel Project. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Statistical Data. haifaport.co.il, accessed July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the terminal on the port's website , accessed on July 9, 2017.