O'Swaldkai

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O'Swaldkai, ConRo ship at the RoRo terminal
O'Swaldkai, car transshipment of a ConRo ship

The O'Swaldkai is a port facility in the eastern area of the Port of Hamburg .

Terminal O'Swaldkai

Fruit handling in the Hamburg fruit and cooling center
Elevators in the Hamburg fruit and cooling center

At the O'Swaldkai terminal on the Kleiner Grasbrook south of the Norderelbe on the north side of the Hansahafen, which was built at the end of the 19th century, around 1000 employees handle logistics services on an area of ​​75 hectares. In addition to refrigerated goods, mainly Ro-Ro and Con- Ro ships are handled at the quays , and project cargoes and forest products also play an important role.

The terminal facilities are operated by Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and Unikai Lagerei- und Speditionsgesellschaft , which is part of HHLA .

RoRo terminal

Transhipment goods are predominantly containers , project cargo, heavy cargo , RoRo cargo, both in the form of cars and trucks , but also as trailers. In addition, wood and other conventional general cargo is handled on a smaller scale . Two berths are available with a maximum draft of 11.5 meters and a total quay length of 800 meters. The terminal area is 800,000 m². Two container cranes and a mobile port crane with a lifting capacity of up to 104 t are available for handling .

Fruit and cooling center

Hamburg is the most important port for fruit handling in Germany. Around 700,000 tons of tropical fruits are handled annually via the fruit and cooling center on O'Swaldkai. The company site covers 166,000 m², the length of the quay wall on the north side of the Hansahafen is 530 meters and offers three berths for refrigerated ships . At the O'Swaldkai terminal, tropical fruits are mainly handled, stored and processed at the HHLA fruit and refrigeration center. The banana handling has priority, meanwhile a banana ripening plant has also been built on the Kleiner Grasbrook.

The refrigerated ships, which come mainly from Central America , also discharge and load general cargo and other goods in containers that are transported on the deck of the refrigerated ships. A container bridge, three mobile cranes and around 60 forklifts are available for handling  . The cooling sheds have 30,000 pallet spaces, 6 automatic palletizers, 2 automatic depalletizers and 30 truck handling ramps.

Namesake William Henry O'Swald

The port facility is named after William Henry O'Swald , a merchant who pioneered trade with East Africa .

literature

  • Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Competence center for project cargo . In: Daily port report from September 6, 2013, p. 3, Seehafen-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISSN  2190-8753

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frucht- und Kühl-Zentrum , Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, accessed on May 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Terminal O'Swaldkai , Unikai Lagerei- und Speditionsgesellschaft, accessed on May 24, 2013
  3. ↑ Unikai Lagerei- und Speditionsges. mbH , Hafen Hamburg Marketing eV, accessed on May 24, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Technical data for the fruit and cooling center , Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG, accessed on May 24, 2013
  5. ↑ Why is a quay in the port called O'Swaldkai? , Die Welt , September 25, 2008, accessed May 24, 2013

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 17.5 ″  E