JadeWeserPort

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The JadeWeserPort seen from the air from the west (May 2012)
Location of the JadeWeserPort in Wilhelmshaven

JadeWeserPort ( JWP ) is the name of the port area to the container terminal in Wilhelmshaven (CTW) and namesake of the district of the same name. The port and logistics area belongs to the group of Wilhelmshaven ports .

The harbor quay of JadeWeserPort was built as a deep-water port west of the Lower Saxony Bridge on the Inner Jade with financial support from the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony and officially put into operation on September 21, 2012. The new quay was created by sand flushing and comprises a 130 hectare container terminal with a 1725 m long mooring zone ( quay ). The possible handling capacity is given as 2.7 million  TEU (20-foot standard container equivalent) per year. The port operations are carried out by Eurogate as Eurogate Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven (ECTW).

The evacuated 290 hectare port and logistics area, together with parts of the Lower Saxony Bridge and some ancillary areas, forms the 344 hectare Wilhelmshaven district of the same name, JadeWeserPort .

Goals and Achievement

The OOCL Hong Kong with 21,413 TEUs the largest container ship to the JWP previously started off (2 July 2017)

Before the start of the economic crisis in 2009/2010 , the euro crisis and the banking crises in many countries, there were forecasts that assumed that container traffic would continue to grow by around 6% annually until 2025 (see seaport hinterland traffic ). As of 2013, the JadeWeserPort should take third place among the German seaports in container handling with 2.7 million TEU per year - after the Port of Hamburg with 9.3 million TEU at the time and the ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven , where at the time 5, 8 million TEU were handled.

The building owners were initially the three federal states of Hamburg , Bremen and Lower Saxony. Hamburg withdrew from the project in 2002. In 2011 Hamburg finally dropped out of planning and decided to concentrate on the Elbe deepening project instead . Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, has a 30 percent stake in JadeWeserPort .

The JadeWeserPort can tide even the largest container ships , such as B. handle the Emma Mærsk class (14,770 TEU) fully loaded. At the time of opening in 2012, twelve ports worldwide were able to do this, none of them in Germany. The size of container ships has increased significantly in the meantime. For example, the ships in the Triple E class of the Danish shipping company Maersk have more than 20,000 TEU. The largest ship that has called the JadeWeserPort so far, however, was the OOCL Hong Kong , an OOCL G-class mega-carrier with 21,413 TEU.

Economic background

The project company JadeWeserPort Projektrealisierungs-GmbH & Co. KG assumed competitive advantages due to the tide-independent voyage for ships up to 16.5 m draft , which can reach the port after a short journey of 23 nautical miles. The JadeWeserPort is the easternmost deep-water port in Northern Europe ( North Range ). The port is called by Far East liner services and a liner service from the Middle East / India. In addition, weekly ships of the Danish Maersk and feeder services (coming feeder ) and from Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Russia and Britain.

Port cooperation in response to growing ships

Container ship Seago Bremerhaven at JWP

Deepening of the fairways for the two other German overseas ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven is currently planned or has already been approved. The ninth deepening of the Elbe, which is intended to ensure the connection of the Port of Hamburg to international sea traffic, will have a draft of 15.9 m for ships arriving depending on the tide (information for fresh water, decisive here; for comparison with salt water 15.6 m). For ships outgoing depending on the tide, the draft should be 14.8 m (data for fresh water). A deepening of the Outer Weser to 15.5 m is in preparation for Bremerhaven , but the realization is delayed due to local circumstances. With deepened fairways, today's larger container ships could reach the ports of Bremerhaven and Hamburg more easily. Today this is only possible partially loaded and depending on the tide, as the container ships “ride” on the tidal wave when entering or leaving. In the context of the so-called "port cooperation" between various federal states, the JadeWeserPort is of particular and exemplary importance. This is also the reason for its success, because originally it was intended as an alternate port in the event that the ports of the participating federal states reached their limits. Bremerhaven is far from this, however, which is why the focus of the JadeWeserPort has changed in the meantime. In the meantime, there are also considerably larger container ships with an even greater draft than at the beginning of construction planning. This also makes the JadeWeserPort and the port cooperation between Bremen and Lower Saxony more important. By mid-2014, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) had built ten ships of the Triple E class (max. 15.5 m draft) for the Mærsk Line in South Korea . These container ships, carrying over 19,000 TEU, have a draft of 16 m. However, since most seaports worldwide only allow drafts between 14 and 16 meters, the construction and operation of container ships with a draft of 20 meters, for example, does not make economic sense.

Investments in structurally weak areas

Feeder ships distribute some of the containers

It was hoped that the operation of the JadeWeserPort and the associated settlement of logistics service providers and industry and commerce with an affinity for the port would stimulate the labor market in the structurally weak north-west German economic area. The operating company's personnel concept provided for the creation of a thousand new jobs. Another thousand jobs were promised at freight forwarders and railways. Various studies forecast totals 2,100 to 5,800 new jobs (depending on which portions of the turned-up charge near the port processed are). As part of the port cooperation, Lower Saxony benefits on the one hand from Bremen's know-how and, on the other hand, now also in the course of the positive development in terms of the job situation. A disadvantage is that Wilhelmshaven and its surroundings as an industrial and commercial location can only generate a limited amount of cargo in the region itself. One of the goals of the regional politicians and business representatives was to keep some of the handled containers in the region and to refine the cargo in order to increase the Loco quota . This was initially assumed to be very low at less than 1%. At the time, it was 30% for the Port of Hamburg and 10% for Bremerhaven. Until August 16, 2011, however, there were hardly any investors for the port area. A year before the start of operations, a company was only found that wanted to settle.

Project planning and construction lead

JadeWeserPort Realization GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding January 2003
Seat Wilhelmshaven
management Holger Banik
Number of employees 31
sales 19.1 million euros
Branch logistics
Website http://www.jadeweserport.de/
Status: 2017

The project was initiated in 1993 by the Wilhelmshavener Hafenwirtschafts-Vereinigung. It should consist of two construction phases with initially four and later two more berths. In 1998 and 2000 a potential analysis and a feasibility study were presented by the Hafenwirtschafts-Vereinigung. Limited loading operations should start in 2010. The investment volume was around 950 million euros, of which 600 million euros were to be allocated to the basic infrastructure and 350 million euros to the superstructure .

After founding the JadeWeserPort development company in 2001 (was responsible for the planning approval procedure), JadeWeserPort Realisierungs-GmbH & Co. KG (shares: State of Lower Saxony 50.1%, State of Bremen 49.9%) was responsible for implementing the project. In April 2006, Eurogate was awarded the contract to operate the JadeWeserPort container terminal. It had sold 30% of its stake in the Maersk group, which has interests in forty container ports worldwide. Eurogate bore a third of the project costs.

The plan approval decision necessary for the construction of the first construction phase was issued on March 20, 2007 by the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Northwest in Aurich . The start of construction has been delayed by several legal proceedings. Among other things, the award procedure for the construction work was subjected to a judicial review, the result of which was the exclusion of the initially successful bidder Hochtief . On September 25, 2007 the bidding consortium consisting of the companies Johann Bunte from Papenburg , Josef Möbius Bau-GmbH from Hamburg , Ludwig Voss from Cuxhaven and Heinrich Hecker from Oldenburg received the final bid. In addition, environmental groups tried to prevent the construction of the port by legal means.

On October 17, 2007, the Lower Saxony state parliament set up a parliamentary committee of inquiry to clarify delays and irregularities in the award of contracts for the construction of the JadeWeserPort. This committee presented a final report in January 2008. It was found that the award procedure was interfered with in at least five places.

On March 7, 2008, the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court had legally rejected two urgent applications against the immediate implementation of the planning approval decision for the construction of the JadeWeserPort and permitted the immediate start of construction subject to conditions.

In 2008, additional costs of 90 million euros were announced in a supervisory board proposal. This would increase the costs to over 589 million euros.

Construction concept

The first step in the construction concept for the new port was to build up edge dams in the north and south of what would later become the container terminal, so that the sand that would later be washed up could be held to the side and secured against storm surges. The upper edge of the terminal area was designed for a storm surge-proof height of 7.5 m above mean sea ​​level. On the quay wall as the landing point for the ships, there was a jump in terrain of approx. 28 meters to be secured (comparable to a 7-storey house; upper edge +7.5 m above sea level, planned harbor level below sea level −20.1 m). This wall was intended as a steel structure made of supporting piles (double T-beams) and sheet piles (so-called combi wall), which are held by anchors that run diagonally to the land. The construction principle and the forces involved have been extensively investigated in the planning phase.

The proposed changes during the tendering process for the construction concept (so-called special proposals , which also concerned the manufacture of the quay wall) were the subject of legal review in the court proceedings and in the above-mentioned parliamentary investigation committee.

Construction work and course of the project

Immediately after the judgment of the OVG Lüneburg on March 7, 2008, construction work began. This also included the implementation of the protective measures ordered by the court as well as the preparation of the washing ground. In May 2008 the sand flushing could be started. A total of two years was estimated for this measure. At the same time, the embankments in the north and south of the port area were built up. As of August 2008, was made ramming of sheet piling . A total of 50,000 tons of steel were used for this. The creation of the areas required the flushing of around 46 million  m³ of sand.

Initially, the intention was to complete the first 1000 of a total of 1700 meters of quay by October 2011 and to put the port into operation at that time. Thanks to the rapid construction, it should be possible to claim funding from the European Union of up to 50 million euros. At the beginning of 2010, the first commissioning was postponed to August 2012, among other things because the operating companies Eurogate and APM Terminals International expected less demand than originally assumed due to the economic crisis.

By March 2009, one year after the construction was approved, 17.6 million m³ of sand had been washed up, which corresponded to around 40% of the required amount of sand. In addition, a larger part of the different piles for the sheet pile wall was rammed. The bridges required for rail and road connections were built.

By October 2009, all of the sheet pile wall's bearing piles had been rammed. In addition, a concrete plant was built on the site. On the night of October 10th to 11th, 2009, the M30 suction excavator was damaged when a dud it had sucked in from the Second World War exploded.

In mid-2010, Eurogate put the procurement of the container cranes out to tender . They were drawn up from March 2012.

In January 2011, the first construction section of the quay with a length of 1000 m was handed over to the operator Eurogate. The track systems on the washed-up area in the form of a 16-track presentation group, which is laid out parallel to the northern edge of the harbor, were largely completed. This year the city of Hamburg declined to get involved in the project again and to participate in the second construction phase. In December 2011, the 3 km long road access at the end of the A 29 as a connection to the JadeWeserPort was completed.

The Nordfrost Terminal under construction. In the middle in the front building the border clearance point, in front of the building the tracks of the KV group

The flushing work was completed in January 2012. From October 2011 to January 2013, the railway line between Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven was continuously expanded to double-track. However, the electrification of the route was pending and was planned for 2016. In October 2015, the federal government and Deutsche Bahn signed a financing agreement for electrification, with which Template: future / in 2 yearselectric trains should be possible from 2022 .

At the beginning of 2012, cracks in the steel construction of the quay wall in the form of so-called lock explosions became public knowledge . Here, the connecting steel locks tore open in their tongue and groove-like angles, so that there was a risk that the sand that was washed up could no longer be safely retained. The damage made it necessary to renovate the affected quay areas. In the case of individual explosions, this was done by high-pressure injections with concrete and steel plates. A 450 m long and 9.5 m high prefabricated concrete wall made of 446 precast concrete elements was placed in front of the existing sheet pile wall at the quay in the frequently occurring adjacent damaged areas.

Preparations for operations began in April 2012; the trial operation was impaired by the structural damage. At the beginning of June 2012, it was announced that the port would not go into operation until the end of September 2012 instead of August 5, due to the castle blasting on the quay wall (over 300 in mid-2012). On July 26, 2012, the renovation of the first 1000 m quay length was completed; the operator Eurogate was able to start full trial operation at this length. On June 13, 2012, the feeder ship Pictor J moored at JadeWeserPort as the first container ship for tests and trials with empty containers, which were carried out on a 400-meter-long section of the quay.

  • Construction progress

  • Dredgers and work boats at the JWP construction site in May 2008

  • First construction work in May 2008; in the foreground is a symbol of protest against the construction and the decline of the Genius Beach.

  • The construction site in March 2009; in the background a pile driver working on the sheet pile wall

  • The construction port south of the Niedersachsenbrücke. In the background the pirate X dredger on a floating sand pipe

  • The Lower Saxony Bridge will be included in the southern end dam of the JadeWeserPort.

  • June 2009: The port area has already been washed up so far that it is almost dry at low tide.

  • October 2009: A concrete plant is located on the area that has been washed up to just below the edge of the dike . The road in front of the dike has been covered over. (See status May 2008)

  • July 2010: A train brings material for the construction of the track system in the northern area of ​​the washed-up area

  • February 2012: Construction of the fresh fruit and frozen food terminal for Nordfrost

  • March 2012: The first four container cranes for the JadeWeserPort are ready for unloading on the Chinese special ship Zhen Hua 23 .

  • May 2012: The construction site of the JadeWeserPort from the air

  • May 26, 2012: Delivery of container cranes by the freighter Zhen Hua 24

Eurogate office buildings and open spaces

Performance data and design of the project

The JadeWeserPort can handle the largest container ships built to date, such as the Emma Mærsk class and the OOCL G class, fully loaded , regardless of the tide . The terminal has four berths for ships with a length of up to 430 m, a draft of 16.5 m and a loading capacity of over 12,000  TEU . Alternatively, two large container ships with 22,000 TEU can be loaded or unloaded. Due to the water depth of 18 m at the quay, the ships can be processed fully loaded, which is not possible in the Port of Hamburg, for example.

When the JadeWeserPort opened , the usable length of the quay was initially 1000 meters in the southern area. As early as 2012 it became clear that this quay wall was considerably damaged and had more than 300 cracks. The construction companies who carried out the renovation at their own expense were made liable for the damage. In 2013 a further 725 meters of quay went into operation. The terminal depth is 650 meters. Eight large post-panamax container gantries are used for loading, and eight more are planned. It was the largest container cranes in the world at the time. They each weigh 1750 t and are 83 m high. The booms are 69 m long and can lift 120 t.

The container terminal itself is 130 hectares in size; 160 hectares are available for forwarding agents as a so-called logistics zone in the area of ​​the Hafengroden. A freight center and a distribution center take care of the further distribution of the goods. Further areas for industrial and commercial use in the immediate vicinity of JadeWeserPort are located in the adjacent Voslapper Groden, a nature reserve. So-called “compensation areas” were acquired on the Lower Weser for their development. At the port area to railway tracks close for container trains, including a six-track KV - terminals with five envelope bridges on which lies between the terminal and the logistics zone. In addition, heavy cargo handling is possible over a length of 70 m in the quay area .

The handling capacity of the first expansion stage was given as 2.7 million TEU per year. According to plans, a further expansion should increase the capacity to 4.2 million TEU. As soon as the throughput exceeds the million mark - in 2018 it was 660,000 - a further eight loading cranes will be set up to cope with the increase.

From May 2011 to August 2012, a so-called “tug and service port” with nine permanent and three alternative berths was built on the north dam for the tugs , pilot transfer and mooring boats required to support the ship movements . The construction cost eight million euros. The “tug and service port” consists of 11 pontoons that were built by Papenburg and Hamburg companies. In addition to the towing vehicles, tankers and supply boats are also used from here . In addition, the “tug and service port” serves as a pilot station. For the first six years, the JadeWeserPort Realisierungsgesellschaft has awarded the concessions for these towing, mooring and assistance services to three companies: the Unterweser Reederei (URAG) in Bremen, the Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft (Bugsier) in Hamburg and to the Kotug company in Rotterdam .

Office building in the logistics area

Logistics zone

The first settlement project on the 160 hectare logistics zone was a 20 hectare fresh fruit and frozen food terminal from Nordfrost , which went into operation on July 31, 2012. In addition to various cooling areas, the Nordfrost seaport terminal has an area for general cargo. By 2018, Nordfrost had expanded the leased area to 32 ha. Nordfrost is needed because of the significantly increased export of meat to Southeast Asia.

The building also houses offices of various authorities that are active in the port, including the Jade Weser Veterinary Office , the Plant Protection Office , a border control point and a branch of the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food . These departments also started their service on July 31, 2012.

The freight traffic center (GVZ) is located in the northern part of the port area . Here the landed goods are reloaded and prepared for the various available land transport routes. From December 2016, the Rhenus Group set up a storage area for containers in the GVZ of the JadeWeserPort . In March 2018, Jade Dienst GmbH settled in the GVZ, offering mooring services at the JadeWeserPort as the sole license holder . In the same year the online retailer AE Trade Online leased a 1,800 m² warehouse. The family business imports gardening and living supplies from Asia, which are landed directly at JadeWeserPort and distributed via the GVZ.

Location and transport links

Map of the Jade and Weser estuaries with the location of the JadeWeserPort
The track systems of the presentation group in the RTW

The JadeWeserPort aims to become a transshipment port for container cargo to and from Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region . The handling of large container ships in Baltic Sea ports is not economical for shipping companies because of the additional time required and additional port stops. For this reason, the containers are reloaded in Western European seaports such as Rotterdam , Antwerp , Hamburg or Bremerhaven from the large container ships to smaller seagoing vessels, so-called feeder ships , as well as to railways , trucks or inland vessels. The JadeWeserPort relies on feeder traffic to and from Scandinavia, the Baltic States and, above all, Russia , which should cover 60% of the transshipment. In addition, part of the cargo is to be transported via the A 29 motorway (20%) and the railroad (20%).

It was expected that truck traffic on the A 29 motorway would increase by more than 1000 journeys per day. That is why the motorway has been expanded and extended to the port area. The traffic volume of the port is also used to justify the demand for a coastal motorway to Stade and Lübeck .

For rail traffic, it was expected that the number of freight trains between Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg would increase from eight to an estimated 44 to 60. In order to accommodate this additional traffic, the Wilhelmshaven – Oldenburg railway line was expanded to two tracks by the end of 2012 and is to be Template: future / in 2 yearselectrified by 2022 . The already existing single-track industrial mainline to Voslapper Groden was upgraded to speeds of up to 100 km / h and, with the Accum station shortly after the junction from the Esens – Sande line, was given a 1000 meter long siding .

The Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven (RTW) is located on the port area parallel to the northern edge of the port . It consists of a so-called presentation group and an interlocking . The facility comprises 16 tracks from 655 to 822 m in length, which offer space for 13 freight trains. Two tracks are used as connecting tracks, one as a stand wagon track and. a. intended for repair work. The railways and transport company Elbe-Weser (EVB) are responsible for the management of the 17 km long port railway . The capacity of the ambulance is given as 1 million containers per year.

The disadvantage is that Wilhelmshaven is not connected to the European inland waterway network. Therefore the construction of a waterway to the Weser was examined. One possibility is the expansion of the mudflat fairway, another is the construction of a Jade-Weser Canal in an easterly direction. As an alternative, representatives from politics and business in the Ostfriesland / Emsland region have proposed an expansion of the existing Ems-Jade Canal in a western direction to Emden , where a connection to the south is available via the Ems and the Dortmund-Ems Canal .

Since these measures are judged to be unrealistic, it is being examined whether the border between sea and inland shipping can be moved to the west so that seagoing inland waterways can reach the JadeWeserPort from the Weser. In addition, the state government of Lower Saxony intends to improve the seaworthiness of inland vessels. These are to be put in a position to reach the inland waterway network from Wilhelmshaven via the North Sea and neighboring river mouths.

Since May 31, 2008 the Stadtwerke-Verkehrsgesellschaft Wilhelmshaven has connected the JadeWeserPort to the city's bus network.

Start of operations

The damaged container ship MSC Flaminia after arriving at JadeWeserPort

For the official start of operation of the JadeWeserPort on September 21, 2012, the Maersk Laguna , which was used on the South America route, was the first container ship to moor .

On September 9, 2012, the fire-damaged container ship MSC Flaminia moored in JadeWeserPort in front of Maersk Laguna . Because of the large amounts of extinguishing water, its draft did not allow calls to other German ports. On September 17, 2012, Anna Schulte, a container ship, called at the port even before the official start of operations. The ship, which runs liner services between Europe and Latin America for Maersk, came from St. Petersburg and unloaded the first containers in the port.

At the start of operations, the Maersk shipping company initially set up two shipping routes to South America and Asia, each with a weekly departure. For the remainder of 2012, 30 ship arrivals were planned on these routes. This was linked to a guarantee by Maersk for the handling of 500,000 TEU. Further arrivals and departures are made by the associated feeder services. A service to the Baltic States was started as the first fixed feeder connection in October 2012.

workload

After the opening, the port operations started slowly and remained far below expectations. The global financial crisis of 2008 played a part in this, because in the course of the collapse of the global economy, the growth in container throughput fell from 9% to 2%. From January to March 2013, only 7,000 containers were loaded or unloaded in the JadeWeserPort . As a result, 350 of the 400 employees of the port operator Eurogate were put on short-time work .

The container cranes of the JadeWeserPort are 80 meters high
year Transhipment in TEU
2013  85,000
2014  67,076
2015 426.751
2016 481.720
2017 554.449
2018 655.790
2019 639.084

According to the newspaper Die Welt, the Maersk shipping company, which has a 30% stake in JadeWeserPort , promised the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony that they would handle 700,000 containers in 2013 during the planning phase. In the first year of operation, however, only 76,117 TEU were handled in the container terminal. The bad start of the project, which fell well short of expectations, inspired the framework of the 2014 Tatort Kaltstart . In 2014 around 67,000 TEU were handled. For the staff, the terminal operator Eurogate agreed with the works council that short-time work should be continued until the following year for the majority of employees.

Since 2015, the JadeWeserPort has also been regularly called by container ships in liner service, which has improved the port's capacity utilization at the beginning of the year. The JadeWeserPort has now been called at by three overseas lines of the Maersk shipping company, two of which served East Asia , the third India and the Middle East . Among other things, ships of the Triple E class were used, one of the world's largest types of container ships at the moment. In addition, the port has since been served by four feeder lines that go to Scandinavia , Great Britain , Benelux and the Baltic States . The throughput was thus 12% higher than in the previous year (426,700 TEU). In 2017 it was 554,449 TEU. Because of these better connections, several companies decided to use the JadeWeserPort for loading. In addition, there were a number of unscheduled calls by delayed ships which, in order to save time, called at JadeWeserPort as an alternative to ports further inland. Container throughput at the ECTW increased to 481,720 TEU as a result of the positive development in 2016. In 2017 it was 554,449 TEU. This was an increase of 15% compared to the previous year.

Since May 2018, there are no longer two Maersk container ships calling at JadeWeserPort every week , but only one. The Danish shipping company justified the decision by changing its lines. Although the handling of containers is to remain the same, the JadeWeserPort loses mooring fees. Nevertheless, double-digit growth in container throughput was achieved in 2018 for the third time in a row. This was over 650,000 TEU and was 18% above the previous year.

The fact that in principle container traffic is only operated as a full container load (FCL) also partly contributes to the underutilization of capacity ; d. H. Goods that - due to lack of mass - are shipped by Less Container Load must first be brought to Wilhelmshaven after loading at other locations - with additional costs - as this service ( Container Freight Station ) is not yet available on site. The other German port cities Bremerhaven and Hamburg have corresponding service providers.

Installation ship Vidar

Underutilized port parts were for assembly and shipping of rotors for offshore - wind turbines used. Installation vessels such as the Vidar take over completely assembled rotor stars in the port area and transport them to the construction site of the offshore wind farms in the North Sea.

Further expansion

The plans for the JadeWeserPort include the possibility of adding more berths to the container terminal. This possibility has been a controversial issue since the beginning of 2011. The Mayor of Wilhelmshaven, Menzel , pointed out, with a view to the ships of the Triple E class ordered by the Maersk shipping company , that the latest generation of container ships with 18,000 TEU cannot call at other German ports. Maersk initially denied to the television magazine Plusminus that the JWP was needed to handle these ships and referred to sufficient capacities in Hamburg and Bremerhaven.

North of the JadeWeserPort, the construction of a second container terminal is being considered, the planning of which could be done by JWP-Realisierungs-GmbH. In February 2015, the state government of Lower Saxony announced a feasibility study for further expansion, which was presented at the beginning of 2016 with a positive result. Another quay could be built north of the existing terminal in a north-south direction. On August 25, 2017, the operator of the Jade-Weser-Port, the company Eurogate, announced that it would increase the number of employees from 400 to 600 by 2018.

In October 2017 it became known that the Volkswagen Group was planning a logistics center for the Chinese market on the JWP site. From 2019 [obsolete] the first spare parts should be packaged and shipped. This major project is expected to create around 350 jobs.

Several other investment projects were planned or examined in connection with the construction of the port. These included:

  • the JadeWeserPark business park next to the site of the former Olympic works
  • the establishment of a truck stop on the A 29 at the Zetel junction
  • the construction of a service center for commercial vehicles at the end of the motorway outside the JadeWeserPort
  • the renovation of the two destroyed lock chambers of the former III. Port entrance as dry docks for ships up to 300 m in length

criticism

After the plans for the construction of the JadeWeserPort became known, there was repeated criticism, especially from the residents of Voslapp and nature conservationists. Their arguments included the destruction of the only sandy beach in Wilhelmshaven, the Genius beach , the campsite and, last but not least, the breeding areas of threatened bird species and the Wadden Sea.

The citizens' initiative "Citizens against JadeWeserPort" questioned the economic forecasts, the environmental compatibility of the project and the need for a new container port on the German North Sea coast. After the court rulings in favor of the port construction she had stopped her work.

Tourism and events

Information center directly on the building site

JadeWeserPort InfoCenter

In the JadeWeserPort-InfoCenter, visitors can find out more about the progress of the project and the topics of container shipping, the maritime economy, transport, etc. In the visitor and information center a. An interactive exhibition is offered in which visitors can embark on a journey from Asia to Europe and experience, touch and try out the stations on the transport route of the goods from the producer to the end consumer. The facility was opened in summer 2008 and is operated by JadeWeserPort-InfoCenter GmbH . Since October 2010, the "JadeWeserPort harbor bus tours" have also been taking place regularly with expert guides across the port area.

Open house on July 29, 2012 shortly before the start of operations

There are tourist and other events and activities in connection with the JadeWeserPort.

tourism

The tourism in Wilhelmshaven had by the construction of JadeWeserPort experienced limitations because the official bathing at the Genius beach and operation of the adjacent campsite with 760 spaces at the end of the season has been set of 2004.

Since then, port construction has had its own visitors, who can find out more in the information center. During the construction period, tours of the terminal site were offered, which for security reasons in accordance with the regulations of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) have not been able to take place since operations began. At an open house on July 29, 2012, around 50,000 visitors were counted. Special occasions such as the delivery of the container cranes attracted more onlookers.

In 2014 and 2018, the operating company acquired areas on the Weser that are being converted into compensation areas to compensate for the pollution that port operations mean for nature. The compensation area designed in 2014 on Langwarder Groden on the Butjadingen peninsula was initiated by opening the outer dike there . The area, which is now partially flooded, but can be explored by footbridge and nature trail, is a breeding ground for many bird species and is a sight.

JadeWeserPort Cup

As a promotional measure for the project, the JadeWeserPort-Cup sailing competition was held in 2002 under the patronage of the Lower Saxony Prime Minister . In order to combine the positive image of the event with the venue, the event was renamed in 2017 and is now called Wilhelmshaven Sailing Cup . Up to twenty larger sailing ships take part in this regatta , which is usually held on the first weekend in October . In 2013, the regatta was held on the occasion of the 34th  German Maritime Day in August.

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JadeWeserPort-Cup : Sailors parade in the Great Harbor 2009

Other Events

In May 2011, the 7th National Maritime Conference with the participation of Chancellor Angela Merkel and around a thousand representatives from business, science and research, the trade unions, politics and administration took place partly on the terminal site.

In September 2012, the theater project The Last Gem staged the premiere and several performances of the play Atalanta , which deals with modern piracy, on the grounds of the JadeWeserPort.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For comparison: Hamburg handled around 8.9 million containers per year at the end of 2006, Bremerhaven last year 4.9 million TEU.
  2. ↑ Previously, some smaller ships had already entered for operational testing, whereby no containers were handled for economic purposes.

literature

  • Jade-Weser-Port is making headway. In: Binnenschifffahrt , issue 6/2011, pp. 54–56, Schifffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2011, ISSN  0939-1916 .
  • A container terminal grows out of the water. In: Hansa , No. 6/2009, pp. 104-108, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2009, ISSN  0017-7504 .
  • Olaf Lies : Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven: Reaching the expected potential under a new name. In: Daily port report from September 6, 2013, special supplement ports in Lower Saxony , p. 2/3, Seehafen-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISSN  2190-8753 .
  • Birger Nicolai: The miraculous resurrection of the Jade-Weser-Port . In: The world . January 1, 2018 ( welt.de ).

Web links

Commons : JadeWeserPort  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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