Maritime Circle Line
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The Maritime Circle Line (MCL) is a shipping line in the Port of Hamburg operated by the Gregors GmbH shipping company founded by Gregor Mogi . It is operated with barges according to a fixed timetable, which mainly call at historically interesting sights in the eastern port area. In the summer season (April to September) three trips are offered daily, during the winter season these take place regularly only on the weekends.
Emergence
After a sea voyage, Mogi completed an apprenticeship as a shipping agent and took over his grandparents' traditional barge business. In 2006, when the BallinStadt emigrant museum named after Albert Ballin was built at the original location of the emigrant town built by the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) on the Veddel, consideration was given to setting up a launch line there. When the original idea of operating this line from several barge shipping companies failed, Mogi implemented this plan on his own in 2007 and, with its red barges, heads for other historical maritime sights in the Port of Hamburg in addition to BallinStadt. The Maritime Circle Line was commissioned by the Port Authority a berth at the St. Pauli jetties . The name Circle Line was chosen after the model of the New York Circle Line , which transports tourists on the waterfront of New York.
Museums and museum ships with moorings
From the Landungsbrücken (bridge 10) the barge of the Circle Line drives on the Norderelbe, past the floating docks of Blohm + Voss and the Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) through the Ellerholzhafen and the Ellerholzschleusen, possibly also through the Reiherstieg , to the first landing stage "Ernst-August-Schleuse / Wilhelmsburg". We continue through the Veddel Canal past the flat Spreehafen and past the Hamburg Süd station of the Hamburg port railway to the “ BallinStadt ” landing stage in the Müggenburg customs port . Then the barge goes back a little and then through the Saale port into the Hansahafen, where the next pier is located directly at the port museum . This can be reached via the museum ship Bleichen . Opposite is the O'Swaldkai with facilities for ro-ro traffic and the fruit terminal and special unloading devices for fruit (mainly bananas), where refrigerated ships are regularly unloaded. On the western side there are the 50s sheds with many historic quay cranes and railway wagons that belong to the port museum. Just beyond is the Hansahöft, here are two floating cranes of HHLA standby. If necessary, they load or unload heavy cargo that is delivered by rail or inland waterway and that is too heavy for the quay cranes .
The launch then returns to the Norderelbe, to the north is the HafenCity with still many construction sites and the cruise terminal . The order for approaching the next pier depends on the respective water level. At Kaispeicher B with access to the Maritime Museum , a new pier is being built, and another pier is located at the “famous” Elbphilharmonie or in Sandtorhafen, which has been expanded into a traditional ship port. Via the Zollkanal , the Circle Line barge arrives at the pier in the historic Speicherstadt with its listed warehouses, accessible from the water and the road. Past the city sports boat harbor at baumall and the Überseebrücke with the Cap San Diego it goes back to the bridge 10 of the landing stages.
fleet
The five barges have been operated with synthetic fuel ( GTL = gas-to-liquids) since 2016 , which did not require the existing diesel engines to be converted.
See also
Web links
literature
- Hamburg has a new launch line . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 12, 2007
- 145,000 visitors to Ballinstadt . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 12, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Synthetic Diesel Fulfills Expectations · Hamburg shipping company Gregors operates five harbor launches with GTL · Air pollutant balance demonstrably improved . In: Daily port report , March 22, 2017, p. 14