Bergen Port

The Port of Bergen ( no: Bergen og Omland Havnevesen ) is the second largest seaport of Norway and a major ferry port on the North Sea. Through its port of Bergen has played a significant role in the wedding of the Hanseatic League.

The mountains Haven KF belongs to the communities Askøy, Austrheim, Bergen, Fedje, Fjell, Lindas, Meland, Os, Radøy, Sound, Øygarden and the province of Hordaland.

Geography

The Port of Bergen and the city center of Bergen is located along the fjord beach Byfjorden in the north and around the fjord arm Vågen in the east, the Puddefjorden bordered on the west, and the Great Lungegård - water (Store Lungegårdsvannet ) in the south, to the mountain slopes of the surrounding seven mountains located in the south of the valley of mountains ( Bergensdalen ). Around the port and the city of mountains are rocky altitudes.

History

The Port of Bergen wore in the wedding of the Hanseatic significantly to the town's prosperity at and was an important trading center in the trade network of the northern European cities. It even coined the concept of so-called climbers. So Hanseatic merchants and sailors were referred from the Middle Ages to modern times, who worked primarily in Norway trade with mountains and the local Bryggen. 1360 this trading post was opened ( Tyske Bryggen ).

By 1880 the port of Bergen in Norway and Bergen, the most important was the largest city in the country.

During the Second World War, Bergen was occupied on the first day of the German invasion on 9 April 1940 by German troops, who turned a U -boat harbor, among other things, and fortified.

Charge

The Port of Bergen has extensive tank capacities for oil and shipyards with dry docks. The cranes of the port facilities lift up to 50 tons.

Ferry terminals

The Port of Bergen is the starting point of ferries on the Hurtigruten. The ferry terminal in Skolten was renovated in the 2000s. In 2005 Jekteviken a modern terminal for the coastal ferry traffic was put into operation.