Hamburg Cruise Center Altona

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Hamburg Cruise Center Altona
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The Cruise Center, land side ...
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... and water side (with AIDAsol )

The Hamburg Cruise Center Altona , also known as Hamburg Cruise Center 2 ( CC 2 ) or Cruise Terminal Altona , is one of the landing stages in Hamburg where cruise ship passengers can be handled; Organizationally it belongs to the Hanseatic Cruise Center and offers a berth for ships up to 326 m in length at a water depth of 10 m ( LAT ) at Edgar-Engelhard- Kai.

history

AIDAmar on the quay of the Hamburg Cruise Center Altona

Ferry and cruise terminal Hamburg-Altona

As early as the early 1980s, considerations began to create a handling facility for ferries and cruise ships with a larger capacity than the terminal previously used by the England ferry to Harwich at St. Pauli Landungsbrücken or the facilities for larger cruise ships distributed in the port. The location was found on the north bank of the Norderelbe in the area of ​​the eastern fishing port of Altona with a favorable water-side connection (slightly shorter journey through the area ), a favorable land-side location with connection to public transport and the road network as well as sufficient space for handling (waiting and traffic areas).

In 1988 work began on building the Hamburg-Altona ferry and cruise terminal. For this purpose, the eastern part of the fishing port in front of fish auction halls 1 and 2 was filled in and brought to an altitude of +6 m above sea level. On the west side of the newly built, 236 m long berth, a reinforced concrete driveway to the ro-ro facility for vehicles and trailers was built. The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg borne the infrastructure costs of around DM 23.5 million. The so-called superstructure of the terminal based on this comprised a four-storey terminal building, the actual RoRo ramp and the fastening and equipment of the terminal site. The plant was put into operation in early 1991. The DFDS Scandinavian Seaways operation of this terminal up to the task of the service offered from Hamburg to Harwich with the ferry Hamburg . As early as the early 1990s, it was planned to expand the terminal to include another berth with additional handling buildings on the east side.

New cruise terminal

Altona cruise terminal, waterside
The cruise terminal seen from the ship, visitors' terrace and the roof covered with broken glass

This project was only realized from March 2009 with the construction of the new Altona cruise terminal; it was put into operation on April 1, 2011 and inaugurated on June 5, 2011. As early as August 2009, the AIDAaura , the first ship to dock at the provisionally prepared facility. The terminal building was built according to the plans of the Altona architects Renner Hainke Wirth. It is the first specially equipped cruise terminal in the city, and the facility covers a total area of ​​20,000 m². The cost was around 30 million euros.

The terminal is located on the north bank of the Elbe , on Edgar-Engelhard-Kai to the east next to the last terminal of the former England ferry , which was not included in the planning because it was considered too small for current needs. The quay wall was designed for ships over three hundred meters long. The building has one or two full storeys and is no higher than 15.5 meters in order to restrict the view of the Elbe from the Geesthang ( Altona balcony ) as little as possible.

With the newly built AIDAsol , a ship was handled for the first time at the new cruise terminal in Altona. For 2011, 47 departures were planned at the Altona cruise terminal, and 70 for 2012.

Together with the Hamburg Cruise Center HafenCity terminal on Grasbrook, a total of 118 ships with 314,500 passengers were handled in 2011, around 50,000 more than in 2010. In 2012, 160 cruise ship calls were made at both Hamburg terminals with 430,329 passengers, of which 87.5% began or ended her trip in Hamburg. In 2013 there were 177 calls with around 555,000 passengers, in 2014 191 calls and 600,000 travelers were expected. Both cruise terminals were operated by HCC Hanseatic Cruise Centers GmbH until 2014 . This was a subsidiary of AIDA Cruises in Rostock and the Unikai Lagerei- und Speditionsgesellschaft in Hamburg. On September 12, 2014, the terminal operating company CGH Cruise Gate Hamburg GmbH was founded as a joint venture between HPA and Flughafen Hamburg GmbH (FHG). Initially, the HPA held 51% of the shares, the FHG 49%. At the beginning of 2016, FHG transferred its shares in the company to HPA, so that it is now the sole shareholder of CGH.

Shore power connection

In order to reduce emissions from shipping , which affect a particularly large number of people in inner-city Altona, the port administration HPA announced in 2013 that it would offer a shore power supply here from 2015 that can provide the right voltage for all types of ships. The federal government gave grants of 3.7 million euros and the European Union 3.5 million euros. The HPA commissioned Siemens to set up a turnkey shore power system by spring 2015. This order, originally worth around EUR 8.5 million, included frequency converters (for 50 and 60  Hz ), transformers , medium and low-voltage switchgear, a fire protection system and the necessary air conditioning and ventilation technology for the new building. The connection is made via a mobile transport trolley, on which the cable can be brought on board by means of a "robot arm"; in this way, the height fluctuations due to the tide and different ship sizes can be compensated. In 2014, the cost of the facility was given as 10 million euros; the city will pay up to 24,000 euros a year for the fixed operating costs. It was officially put into operation on June 3, 2016 as part of an approach by AIDAsol . As it became known afterwards, there were still problems so that no power could be transferred. The test phase lasted until January 2017. In addition, only five of the cruise ships coming to Hamburg in 2016 can accept shore power.

Seafarers Lounge

The Seafarers Lounges were founded specifically to support and take care of crew members of the cruise ships. The Seafarers Lounge has three locations in Hamburg, in the Cruise Centers in Altona, HafenCity and Steinwerder . Here the seafarers can contact their families and shop free of charge. They can also transfer money for their families and exchange foreign currency. The lounges are located in the security area of ​​the cruise center, so that the crew members do not go ashore, but can visit the lounges quickly and unbureaucratically. They were founded by DSM Altona and DSM Hamburg-Harburg. They work very closely with the seaman's missions and on-board support in the Port of Hamburg, often in personal union.

Transport links

In local public transport, the ferry terminal at Van-der-Smissen-Straße 5 can be reached both from the Hamburg-Altona train station using bus route 111 and across the Elbe using the HADAG port ferries on routes 61 and 62 (Dockland pier), all within of the Hamburg Transport Association (HVV).

There are 238 short-term parking spaces for cars.

Further landing stages for cruise ships in Hamburg

literature

  • Jens Meyer: Hamburg's new "station of the giants" . In: Hansa issue 9/2011, pp. 59–63
  • Shore power connection for the cruise terminal in Altona . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 9/2014, p. 234

Web links

Commons : Cruise Terminal Altona  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bernet cedar, Jürgen Scheele, Karl Sprin: The new ferry and cruise terminal in Hamburg-Altona . In: Hansa , issue 7 / 8-1991, pp. 465-471
  2. ↑ "With a lot of vigor into the new cruise year" - Hamburg Cruise Center presents results for 2012 . In: Daily port report , January 11, 2013, p. 1 and 3
  3. ↑ Frank Binder: Decision: Hamburg wants to build 3rd cruise terminal. Strong criticism of the cruise decision . In: Daily port report , January 8, 2014, p. 1/2
  4. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: 3. Cruise Terminal is becoming more and more urgent . In: Daily port report , November 12, 2013, p. 4
  5. ↑ Hamburg cruise location . In: Schiff & Hafen , issue 5/2009, p. 17
  6. ↑ HPA press release ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. (PDF) of December 18, 2014; accessed on February 28, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cruisegate-hamburg.de
  7. ↑ Frank Binder: All cruise terminals at the HPA - port authorities now sole shareholders after leaving the airport . In: Daily port report , February 5, 2016, p. 3
  8. ↑ Less emissions: Hamburg is building shore power systems for cruise ships . Spiegel Online , September 11, 2013
  9. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Shore power flows out of the socket · Shore power facility cost around ten million euros · The federal government and the EU contributed to the costs . In: Daily port report , June 6, 2016, p. 1/3
  10. ↑ HPA receives EU funding for shore power plant in Altona . In: Port of Hamburg Magazine , issue 4/13, p. 16, Hamburg 2013
  11. ↑ First European shore power connection for cruise liners . In: Hansa , issue 8/2014, p. 7
  12. ↑ Peter Kleinort: Today the topping-out ceremony for the shore power system · Costs of ten million euros . In: Daily port report , November 7, 2014, p. 2
  13. ↑ Inauguration of the Altona shore power plant: AIDAsol goes to the socket in Altona. June 3, 2016, accessed March 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Europe's first shore power system for cruise ships goes into operation. Mirror online
  15. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Shore power does not flow · New facility in Altona still in test mode . In: Daily port report , June 22, 2016, p. 1/2
  16. ↑ Shore power system passes practical test · Six hours of full supply for the first time . In: Daily port report , January 3, 2017, p. 16
  17. ↑ Shore power system for ships is hardly used. NDR.de, April 15, 2016
  18. ^ Website of the Seafarers Lounge Hamburg. Retrieved July 16, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 16 ″  E