Port of Skagen
Skagen Havn is the sea port of Skagen and is located on the Ålbæk Bugt in the Kattegat near Grenen, the northern tip of Jutland. The industrial port, in the 2010, around 293,000 tons of goods were handled, it is the largest fishing port in Denmark. In addition, lay here with yachts and cruise ships. The port opened in 1907, is owned and operated by Frederikshavn municipality and in local self-government.
Skagen Havn is connected to the railway network, and on the Primærrute 40, Denmark's northernmost highway, the Danish motorway Frederikshavnmotorvejen can be achieved, which is accompanied by European Route 45.
Port conditions
Covering an area of 1,015,000 m² 645,000 m² of land and 370,000 square meters of water to wharves extending over a total length of 5.5 kilometers, of which 970 m to 9 m water depth.
When entering from the sea in the Outer Vorhafenbecken ( Ydre Forhavnsbassin ), the area is divided into a Vesthavn (West Harbour ) with five docks and a Østhavn ( Eastern Harbour ) with two basins. In the central basin ( Mittelbassinet ) in Vesthavn between the old pier ( Pier Gamle ) and Pier 2 of the marina is Skagen Lystbådehavn.
The port can - depending on wind, currents and waves - in the exterior Vorhafenbecken of ships up to 150 m long, 25 m wide and up to 9.0 m Draft be traveled. The cruise ship Silver Cloud was with a length of 156 m, the largest ship ever docked in the harbor.
The mean tidal range varies by 0.3 meters; when triggered by westerly storms flood ( storm flooding), the water level may rise to 1.4 m above mean sea level; after Oststürmen the sea level drops of up to 0.9 m below normal levels.
History
The fishing was since the beginning of main industry of the city, but had no harbor, so that the fishermen had to drag their boats by winches on land. A design from the 1880s, which provided a double port connected by channels between the Skagerrak and Kattegat was discarded. Under pressure from the fishermen, a new proposal was drafted in 1888, which formed the basis of a 1903 law passed over the construction of a port.
The tender was the company Gunnarson & Son og Elzelingen which estimated the height of the construction costs to 1,430,238 crowns, decide in January 1904 for themselves. After three and a half years of construction, the Danish King Frederick VIII on November 19 opened in 1907, the new port. At the same time the seat of the harbor master, " fish store " ( Fiskepakhusene ) and by the Danish architect Hack Kampmann ( 1856-1920 ) designed customs buildings were erected.
Enhancements and expansion of the port
In the early 1930s changed more and more fishermen to more lucrative trawling. A port expansion seemed inevitable, and so in 1937 a new harbor basin, and in 1938 a fish auction hall were completed in the East. A 1943 expansion decision in the West was delayed because of the German occupation of Denmark in World War II and was commissioned in 1952 to attack. After completion, among other things, a new basin for trawlers was Skagen Havn as modern fishing port in the country.
In the 1960s, the fishery was booming and the port had more than 400 fishing boats. The area to the east was a result, from 1964 to 1979 for DKK 35 million extended by 120 hectares of land and 14 acres of water. This was followed by depression measures in Vesthavn 1985 and 1991 and in Østhavn 1993.
Since the sale of the port to the Skagen municipality in 2001 Skagen Havn is operated as local self-government harbor, which is led by a seven-member board of directors. After a local government reform in Denmark in 2007, he went into the possession of Frederikshavn Kommune on.
The Østhavn was 2005, 2007 and most recently in 2010 deepened in the past nine meters. 2006-2007 built the shipyard Karstensens Skibsværft between Pier 3 and 4, a dry dock in the dimensions 135 × 25 × 8 meters, which is designed for 7,500 -ton ships. In the same period was gained by reclaiming 110,000 m² of land, which was officially inaugurated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the port 2007.
During the construction of a fish terminals from 2007 to 2008 the old auction hall was renovated and installed a cooling system with secure cold chain. At the same time, work began on a Ro-Ro ramp and a 170 m long quay, which is designed for 9 m deep vessels in the exterior Vorhafenbecken.