Oberhafenamt
The Upper Port Authority is as shipping police authority in Hamburg , a department within the Hamburg Port Authority , responsible for the Port of Hamburg and its peripheral areas except the Alster .
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The Oberhafenamt is divided into
- a policy department
- Three port authorities , the Port Authority West, responsible for the western port areas up to the Tinsdal border, the Port Authority East, responsible for the eastern port areas and the Port Authority South, responsible for the southern port areas from the Köhlbrandbrücke to Bunthäuser Spitze and the shipping police matters in the Harburg inland port ,
- the person responsible for the pilotage system ,
- participation in the Designated Authority responsible for international security within the framework of the ISPS Code and
- the Hamburg Nautical Center , one of ten traffic centers in Germany responsible for traffic in the Port of Hamburg (nickname Hamburg Port Traffic )
tasks
The Oberhafenamt has the task of ensuring the safety and lightness as well as environmental compatibility of shipping and of preventing dangers and harmful environmental impacts from shipping. Through state treaties, the state of Hamburg has the mandate to ensure all traffic processes through its shipping traffic administration through monitoring, regulation and control of traffic. The offices of the Oberhafenamt exercise their activity and function on all waterways in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with the exception of the Alster, behind the Tatenberger Schleuse and the Este . In addition, there are all structures built for handling such as quays , extinguishing bridges, landing facilities.
These tasks are monitored and carried out by specialist staff from the offices or on site by barges . The Nautical Center is supported by radar monitoring and the Hamburg Port Traffic coastal radio station . In the disaster control structure of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Oberhafenamt is integrated into the port staff and acts according to an alarm plan in the event of a risk of flooding , serious accidents and any resulting catastrophes affecting shipping.
The largest share of applied legal norms vessel traffic in the Port of Hamburg is Hafenverkehrs- and Shipping Act (HVO) and in the maritime road order and Collisions at Sea to find. The Oberhafenamt is a mediator between the interests of the port and shipping industry on the one hand and the interests of the public on the other.
Economic efficiency as well as safety and environmental compatibility are equally important, in case of doubt safety and environmental compatibility take precedence. The Port Authority is headed by the port director, who is also the port captain .