Andernach Rhine port
| Andernach Rhine port | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | DE AND | ||
| owner | City of Andernach | ||
| operator | Andernach municipal utilities | ||
| start of building | 1905 | ||
| opening | 1910 | ||
| Port type | Port and lands | ||
| Daily ship capacity | 25,000 m³ tank farm | ||
| Total area of the port | 106,000 m² | ||
| Piers / quays | 3 | ||
| Goods handled | Containers, building materials, mineral oil, grain, sheet metal | ||
| Throughput | 2,895,000 tons (2013) | ||
| Container (TEU) | 132,540 (2013) | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Then after | ||
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '29 " N , 7 ° 25' 39" E | ||
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The Rheinhafen Andernach is an inland port in Andernach . The largest port on the Middle Rhine with a cargo handling of 3.125 million tons (2010) is operated by the Andernach municipal utility . It stretches along the Rhine from river kilometer 611.7 to 612.6 and consists of the river port and a harbor basin.
history
During excavations on the site of a former malt factory, which was located between the Old Krahnen and the bulwark, evidence of a port from the 500 year Roman rule in Andernach was found. Local raw materials, furniture, salt and oil were exported, other things were landed for the supply of the area. Even after Andernach was taken over by the Franks around 450 AD, the Andernach transshipment point did not lose its importance. In the 8th century, more and more basalt millstones and pottery were shipped from the Mayen area.
The port was first referred to as portus in the 11th century and the Andernach Rhine toll was mentioned in 1147. In 1559 the old crane was completed, which replaced the floating cranes that had been used until then. In the 19th century, the port became increasingly important for the shipping of volcanic building materials. In 1879 it was connected to the Left Rhine route . Since the previous transshipment point between the Old Krahnen and the bulwark, a former customs station, was no longer sufficient, it was decided in 1905 to build a Rhine shipyard 650 meters long above the bulwark. This river port was completed in 1910; it had a siding and three electric cranes. As early as 1917 there was a plan to build a 1000 meter long harbor basin above the Rheinwerft.
After 1949, due to the strong demand for building materials, high-performance conveyor systems, cranes and high-rise steel silos were built in the port area. The harbor basin has been in operation since 1970.
Port facilities
River port
The Stromhafen was established in 1910 and has a length of 919 meters and a usable fairway width of 50 meters. It is mainly used for handling building materials such as pumice and lavalite and grain . There are four belt loading systems and three cranes (5, 6 and 8 tons) available. Sensitive goods can be stored in various warehouses; there is a grain silo with a storage capacity of 23,000 tons for loading grain . Bulky goods are stored on the fortified bank. 500 meters of the port have a rail connection to the left Rhine route.
Harbor basin
The harbor basin was opened in 1970. The port entrance is 611.7 km and is 80 meters wide. In 2009/2010 the basin was enlarged and is now 650 meters long and 90 meters wide. 1170 meters are secured with sheet pile walls, in the area of the mineral oil loading there is a sloping embankment, the ships are moored there on dolphins . The south side is used for container handling, the north side for building material and mineral oil loading. The tank farm has a capacity of 25,000 m³. In 2010, around 500,000 tonnes of mineral oil products were unloaded there for various companies. Two luffing cranes (15 and 45 tons) are available for handling building materials .
The 48,000 m² container terminal , which is set up for trimodal traffic , is located on the south side . Two container gantries with 45 and 50 tons payload as well as a covered loading bridge for sensitive goods from the Rasselstein plant ( coils ), two smaller loading bridges (32 and 6 tons) and a luffing crane with 45 tons load capacity are available for container loading. There are also three 45-ton reach stackers , forklifts and a 45-ton luffing crane. Up to 4000 containers can be stored in the open spaces. The siding is 750 meters long. There are still 30 lockable high-rise steel silos distributed throughout the port area, in which around 6000 m³ of moisture-sensitive bulk goods can be stored. The Mittelrhein-Flandern-Express container train has been operating between the port and Antwerp since November 2010 . 430 wagons were handled in the first two months. In the first half of 2011, a total of 1200 freight wagons were loaded and unloaded.
The container port is approached several times a week according to the schedule by various freight carriers.
Cargo handling
Incoming goods
The following goods arrive in the Rhine port of Andernach: Perlite from Morocco , Ceolite from Hungary, pumice from Iceland , Italy , Greece , Turkey and Tenerife , corundum and bauxite from China , coal from South Africa , road salt from Italy.
Outgoing goods
The following goods leave the Rhine port of Andernach: tinplate ( coils ), machines, containers, pumice, lava , basalt , drifting sand and paper products.
In 2010 3.125 million tons were loaded, including around 76,000 TEU . The main share, at 54.1%, was made up of stones and earth. The total throughput in trimodal traffic was around seven million tons. In the first half of 2011, 51,379 TEU were loaded, an increase of 42.5% compared to 2010. In January 2018, the 150,000th container since 2010 was handled for Thyssenkrupp-Rasselstein.
Cover 2012/2013
In 2013, throughput increased by a total of 5.6 percent compared to 2012, with general cargo remaining almost the same (252,000 tons), bulk goods such as lava and pumice increased from 1.98 to 2.1 million tons and container throughput from 123,000 to 133,000 TEU.
Web links
- Website of the Rhine port of Andernach
- Logistics company in the Rhine port of Andernach
- Report on the port on the occasion of the port expansion
- Container service in the Rhine port of Andernach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Mayen-Koblenz, 2011, Der Rheinhafen Andernach, pp. 22–27.
- ↑ Port is heading for a new record ( memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: super-sonntag.com, accessed on August 8, 2011
- ↑ [1] accessed on February 11, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Port strongly in cover, Rhein-Zeitung of July 24, 2014