Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg

Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg ; (WSA Magdeburg)
State level	Federation
position	Local authority
Supervisory authority	Directorate-General for Waterways and Shipping
founding	1990
Headquarters	Magdeburg
Authority management	Tjark Hildebrandt
Servants	about 450
Web presence	wsa-magdeburg.wsv.de

Waterways and Shipping Office

Magdeburg-Rothensee waterway intersection

The Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsamt Magdeburg (WSA Magdeburg) is a waterways and shipping office in Germany. It belongs to the service area of the General Directorate for Waterways and Shipping , formerly the Waterways and Shipping Directorate East . The head office is in the Magdeburg Fürstenwallstraße.

Jurisdiction

The Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg is responsible for the federal waterway Elbe from the confluence of the Saale into the Elbe (border to the district of the waterways and shipping office Dresden ) to Dömitz (border to the district of the waterway and shipping office Lauenburg ), the waterway junction Magdeburg- Rothensee , the Niegripper connecting canal and the Elbe-Havel canal (up to km 326.67, border with the Brandenburg Waterways and Shipping Office district ) and the Saale up to km 124.16 (end of the Saale federal waterway, a little above Merseburg ).

The tasks of the Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg include:

The Magdeburg Waterways and Shipping Office includes suburbs in Merseburg, Bernburg , Niegripp , Tangermünde and Wittenberge as well as the Hohenwarthe building yard .

The small watercraft in the area of the Waterways and Shipping Office Magdeburg are assigned small vehicle registration numbers with the identifier MD .