Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office

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Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office
(WSA Cuxhaven)

State level Federation
position Local authority
Supervisory authority Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping
founding 1949
Headquarters Cuxhaven
Authority management Bernhard Meyer
Servants approx. 275
Web presence wsa-cuxhaven.de
WSA Cuxhaven with building yard

The Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office (WSA Cuxhaven) is a waterways and shipping office in Germany. It belongs to the service area of ​​the General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping , formerly Waterways and Shipping Directorate North .

Area of ​​responsibility

The Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office is responsible for the Elbe federal waterways from St. Margarethen (border with the Hamburg Waterways and Shipping Office ) to the Elbe approach buoy, the East from Bremervörde to the confluence with the Elbe and the exclusive economic zone of the Federal Republic of Germany in the North Sea .

In Cuxhaven, the Waterways and Shipping Office has a building yard where maintenance and repair work is carried out on floating and fixed navigation marks , on the eastern barrier systems and the waterways and shipping office's vessels.

Area of ​​responsibility

Multipurpose ship Neuwerk

The tasks of the Waterways and Shipping Office Cuxhaven include:

  • Maintenance and expansion of federal waterways in the official area
  • Maintenance and operation of the floating and fixed sea marks in the official area
  • Order and safety of shipping and operation of the traffic control center in Cuxhaven
  • Takeover of electricity and shipping police tasks
  • Operation and maintenance of the eastern barrier .

The Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office are u. a. the multi-purpose and water protection ship Neuwerk and the DF ship Grimmershörn are subordinated.

The North Sea Coast Guard Center is also located at the Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office .

Traffic control center

The Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Office maintains a traffic control center from which ship traffic on the Lower Elbe is monitored and directed around the clock from the Elban control to Brunsbüttel . The traffic control center is integrated into the Elbe traffic safety system, which includes the traffic control center of the waterways and shipping office in Cuxhaven as well as the traffic control center for the waterways and shipping office Hamburg in Brunsbüttel.

The most striking structure of the traffic control center is the 120 meter high transmission tower, which is designed as a free-standing steel framework construction with a triangular cross-section.

Small vehicle license plate

The small watercraft in the area of ​​the Waterways and Shipping Office Cuxhaven are assigned small vehicle license plates with the code CUX .

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Cuxhaven  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 26"  E