HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst

The HADAG Seetouristik and ferry AG, or HADAG, a subsidiary of the Hamburg High Bahn AG and a ferry operator in the Port of Hamburg.

• 3.1 Current Fleet
• 3.2 Type Ships

History

The company was founded on August 8, 1888 under the name of Port Steamship Actien Society as a shipping company of FW Burchard, F.G. Kroos, E. Hadenfeld, R. R. Canel, E. Reye, G. C. Hempell, Max du Roi Droege, J. Semler and M.H. Röver founded. The engineer Ernst Hadenfeldt had applied already at February 14, 1888 for the concession for harbor ferries, which were previously operated by five Fährpächtern in the city of Hamburg. The concession was granted for 20 years and initially operated with the previous ships. The end of 1890 had HADAG 47 ships. By limiting the travel fee on five penny per person per trip, the economic situation of the company designed problematic. The concession saw a fitting of vessels with steam fire engines before to afford fighting services in fires in the port may, this commitment to the everlasting delete standby was later paid out of the city with 60,000 marks per year as a fee because the economically necessary increase in fares by the Senate from social reasons, was rejected and subsidizing of citizenship was denied.

By 1899 twelve more ships were ordered with an approved passenger numbers of up to 300 passengers, thereby improving the economic situation. In May 1900, the HADAG took over the line to Finkenwerder and operate it with the paddle steamers Union and harmony. Now was not only the pure Hafenfährdienst well as the connection of neighborhoods to the tasks of HADAG. Except Finkenwerder also included Altenwerder and Moor Castle to (both districts were formerly residential areas and are now port expansion area ), which already in 1818 by a " privileged steam ferry" and were served with a paddle steamer from Hamburg from 1881 to Harburg. Until the 1970s there was a line Harburg

The opening of the (old ) Elbe Tunnel in 1911 led to a decline in passenger numbers on the line after Steinwerder from 260,000 to 38,000 passengers. The unsatisfactory yield and the refusal of the Senate to increase the rates, eventually led in 1918 to a takeover of the shipping company by the city.

1928 could be removed after the completion of the " Prussian Hamburg port and same Contracting " traffic on the lower Elbe in Hamburg's about the city. The Free State of Prussia took part in the subsequent years for capital increases in the company.

1952, the coastal resort service was added to Helgoland together with the Hapag. Came into use, for example, there 1960 Hein Godenwind.

The Blankenese -Este line was sold on March 1, 1963 by Heinrich Sietas to HADAG, after he had for 48 years headed the HBEL. The ice winter 1962/1963 had prevented trips of ships for months and so that in itself hitherto healthy companies forced to take this step.

1963, a collective communion with the HHA has been introduced since the introduction of the HVV 1967, the harbor ferries and shipping services in these are integrated. A collective communion with the HHA was already from 1928. In connection with the conversion of the line numbers in the HVV network ( two-digit bus routes were three digits) received the HADAG lines end in July 1968 an additional line numbers. The ferry lines Moor Castle / Harburg and Finkenwerder got first 800 numbers, later, the designations 61 and 62, pure harbor ferries were given 70 numbers.

1968, the ferry service was taken to Harwich in Great Britain.

The current naming HADAG Seetouristik and ferry AG took place in 1969 along with the ship management the England Ferries from Hamburg ( and 1970, Bremerhaven ) to Harwich (until 1981 ). Simultaneously with respect of the new administration building at 1970 Johannisbollwerk replacing the current green -white-red house flag the old green-white- black. From 1971, the seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea ships were initially used successfully as " butter boats ". In 1974 the company opened with the " HADAG air" an air service to Helgoland and Sylt.

Because of the increasingly difficult business ( even in the traditional Helgoland service) the cruise ship Astor was 1981 ' the helm ' rumreißen ", but even this venture only brought new losses. In 1983 came the downsizing, the Astor and the " HADAG Air seaside resorts Flug GmbH & Co. " were sold. The HADAG is traveling since only the harbor and the lower Elbe.

Today's offer

Today it operates as a subsidiary of HHA with 23 ships six ferry lines that operate a total of 25 berths. Main landing are the St. Pauli landing bridges, one of which also put the harbor cruises HADAG.

The HADAG employed an average of 85 employees in 2005 and carried about 5.6 million passengers in 2011 the number of passengers had increased to 7.65 million, in 2012 there were already over 8 million passengers - for comparison: the annual peak performance in ferry traffic could be achieved in 1958 and amounted to 21.3 million passengers. In 1997, the harbor ferries HADAG had only good 2.2 million passengers.

With the exception of the Lower Elbe service, which runs from the jetties westbound on Liihe to Stadersand and (in contrast to earlier) today is only on weekends and only carried out once a day, the line connections HADAG under the name harbor ferries in the tariff of Hamburg public transport (HVV ) are integrated, wherein the compound of Blankenese by Cranz occupies a special position. In addition, offers HADAG in competition with several other operators from the St. Pauli landing bridges the " Harbour Tour " at. In addition, vessels for events can be chartered. An example of the charter is the shuttle service to the musical " Disney's The Lion King."

Line network

The following lines run to HVV Verbundtarif:

In addition, from Good Friday until the first weekend of October (only on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) offered the Lower Elbe trip to the Old Country (with its own price):

Ships

Current fleet

The HADAG operates a fleet of 23 ships. 13 vessels of which belong to modern ferry type 2000, which was introduced in 1997 and is operated by only one person (including create). The mentioned because of their appearance and " iron " ships of this type are mainly used on the HVV line 62 St. Pauli Landing Bridges -Finkenwerder. The newest ship of this type, the 2013 Come ride in Hamburgensie, offers more seats on the upper deck and down much more space eg for bicycles than its predecessors.

Two particularly flat, water taxis, ferries were called into service for the common bridge ride on the line 73 jetties Argentina bridge, which at that time also served Oderhöft, and in the Warehouse District in 2002. Began in 2013 at the shipyard SSB special Oortkaten the work for the construction of another such vessel with a height of superstructures of only around 3 feet above the water line. The 190 passengers comprehensive and thus slightly longer and wider ship will be taken later this year in operation. It gets a Volvo Penta diesel engine for driving the fixed pitch propeller and also a pump-jet for maneuvering and docking.

The old, built in the 1950s and 1960s in large numbers, so-called type ships ( mainly diesel-electric drive ) were made ​​from the late 1970s reinforced decommissioned and sold. The remaining ships were replaced in 1989 by new buildings. Of the former 40 type vessels that have shaped the image of the Port of Hamburg until the 1990s, but only the Kirchdorf is owned HADAG. It is still operated as a historic ship and used primarily for harbor cruises.

In 1989, with the Finkenwerder took the first of approximately four new one-man ships at their service. In the late 1980s, the management of HADAG assumed to be the total port traffic in the future with four ships, which were designed for each 150 passengers cope. 1992 and 1993 followed by two more improved one-man ships. The new ferries are smaller and can only one man, the skipper to be served; they are therefore more economical than the old type ships that required a crew of at least two men to use. The six ships have been adjusted in the past by upgrading and remodeling in large part to the new standards of the ferry type 2000.

With which Jan Molsen HADAG operates a ship that was originally purchased for charter operations and trips on the Middle Elbe, its tributaries and the Lower Elbe to Cuxhaven.

Type ships

The HADAG operation in the late 1940s a marine park of 51 different ship types. The average age of the ships was 30 years. This fleet could not operate economically and was replaced by standardized ship types, called type ships. In the 1950s, emerged five types of ships, of which a total of 40 ships were built. The ferry type II and type III ferry have marked with a number of items together 28 ships and their uniform appearance, the image of the port and the typical Hamburg harbor ferry for decades until the 1990s.