Ports of Bremen

The ports of Bremen include the port groups Bremerhaven and Bremen. The ports of Bremen is the second largest German and the fourth largest European universal port (after Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp). They are managed by the bremenports GmbH & Co. KG.

In the ports of Bremen in 2011 over 80 million tons of goods including almost 6 million TEU container units and approximately 2.1 million cars were handled. The port of Bremerhaven is by far the world's largest trading center for automobiles. About the port group Bremerhaven container, and automobiles are handled with priority. The ports of Bremen helps with bulk commodities, including ores and coal, the envelope volume.

The ports of Bremen in Europe include the so-called " Hamburg -Antwerp Range", the seaports of the southern North Sea, and in competition with the other ports of this area, particularly with Rotterdam and Antwerp. Advantages in the competition reaches the port group through the cooperation of the Bremer Warehouse Company with the Hamburg Eckelmann Group ( Eurokai ), which together form Euro gate. Over and above EUR Gate stakes in the largest container port in the Mediterranean Gioia Tauro in southern Italy.

• 2.1 Bremen
• 2.2 Bremerhaven

• 4.1 Bremerhaven
• 4.2 Bremen
• 4.3 hinterland transport
• 4.4 shipping lines

History

Silting of the river Weser

The ship traffic to the ports of Bremen was difficult at the beginning of the 17th century by the silting of the river Weser. Ocean-going vessels no longer contributed to the located in the city center ports slaughters, but on the lower Weser the goods were transhipped from the ships on Light, traditionally called on the lower Weser Eken. The neighboring states of Oldenburg and electoral Hanover studied the traffic on their own ports redirect about the Oldenburg Brake and Elsfleth. Therefore Bremen had trouble down river to found a suitable outer harbor. The 1622/23 scale Vegesacker harbor had soon also too shallow fairway and also stood since the peace of 1666 Habenhausen only partly under Bremer control.

Bremerhaven

Only in 1827 succeeded the Bremen Senate, the Kingdom of Hanover abzukaufen the site of the former Carl castle on the north side of the mouth of the Geestemünde in the Weser estuary, including the surrounding salt marshes. There, the city-state founded the city of Bremerhaven and put on a first artificial harbor, the Old Port. In 1847, Bremerhaven starting point of the first steamship line from Europe to America. Due to its location on the outer Weser the seaside town has the advantage of lower fairway. About Schleusenanlagen tide-independent port areas ( Dockhäfen ) have been created. In 1845, the Kingdom of Hanover founded on the south side of the Geestemünde estuary harbor and settlement Geestemünde. This port was cheaper than the old Geestendorf and entered into competition to Bremerhaven.

Emigrant

Due to the emigration in the 19th century was Bremerhaven from 1852 to the largest emigration port in Europe. 76,000 people left in 1852 by here from Europe. 1832 Bremen adopted provisions on humane treatment of immigrants. 1849/50 was the Emigration Center Bremerhaven on a former site of the Swedish fortress city Carl castle. When in 1862 the Geestebrücke train from Bremen to Geestemünde led the emigrants remained in Bremen and only on departure they were brought to their ships by special trains to Bremerhaven.

Weser correction and modern harbor

In Bremen was from 1887 a downstream of the town center situated harbor, the harbor Europe, built to bring the lucrative trade and ship traffic back to the city. The following year, after years of preparation, the Weser correction began with the fairway of the Weser was profoundly deepened, so that the European port was visited by modern ocean-going vessels. As also in 1888 the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen joined the German Zollverein, was the new port customs abroad, in which he was declared a free port. This lucrative Freeport 1891-1900 was extended to include the wood and factory port, today the southernmost of the deep-sea serving harbor of Bremen. 1906 came the overseas port. 1910, the existing harbor basin of the complex in the industrial ports were opened to the north, in contrast to the previous secured by a lock. Since only placed at the Slaughter tour boats for trips on the Lower and Outer Weser.

Wesermünde

1924, located in the Prussian province of Hanover cities Geestemünde and Lehe were pooled for independent city Wesermünde. 1939 Bremerhaven was incorporated as a district in the Prussian Wesermünde. The port of Bremerhaven area remained as Stadtbremisches seaport area in the city of Bremen Bremerhaven.

After 1945

After the Second World War Bremerhaven served as a supply port ( " Port of Embarkation ") for the U.S. occupation forces in Germany. Through an agreement between the British and American occupation authorities in 1947 were the urban and rural area as well as the city of Bremen Circle Wesermünde, including Bremerhaven, " as a country to be designated Administrative Region " declared.

Neustadt port

In the 1950s, the foreign trade grew. The Bremen existing on the right side of the Weser handling capacity not sufficient for it. The city decided in 1960 to open up a 1.6 km ² large area on the left side of the Weser. In 1964 there the Neustadt port as a free port on its operation; It was expanded to include a container terminal, which is now, however, only marginally contributes to the envelope in 1968.

Container Terminal Bremerhaven

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Bremerhaven Container Terminal was built directly on the northeast side of the river Weser. In 1971, the first berths at Container Terminal I ( CT I) were done. The increasing containerisation, the deeper draft vessels for growing and the time savings led to a shift of traffic from Bremen to Bremerhaven. In September 2008, was finally inaugurated as the last phase of construction, the container terminal IV (CT 4).

Upper harbor

The high maritime traffic in the ports in the actual Bremen went parallel in the last two decades of the 20th century significantly. What is left are raw material supplies for the port area or close be moved industries.

1998, 1906, overseas port was filled, above all with dredged material from the fairway of the Weser. Since then arises here from the waterfront area of ​​multifunctional district Überseestadt.

Individual locations

- Without marinas and regional passenger ships -

Bremen

In Hemelingen district is the tarnished only by barges Ports:

• Fulda port
• Werra port
• Allerhafen

In the district of overseas city, which belongs to the Walle district, located

• The Europahafen
• The wood and Fabrikenhafen
• The cereal harbor

In the district of Bremen ports are located on the right of the Weser

• Behind the lock Oslebshausen the industrial ports with 7 docks, the port channel port A, port B, port E, Kalihafen, Coal Harbour ( harbor power plant ), cabin port and oil terminal
• On the bank of the river of steel plants in Bremen the center Bürener port ( Klöckner port)

Links der Weser

• The small Hohentorshafen
• The Neustadt port with two docks and freight center

In the Blumenthal district are

• The port for the coal power plant Farge
• The tanker port for the fuel depot of the Federal
• The car handling facility on the quay of the former volcanic terrain

Bremerhaven

In the fishing port district:

• The tide-independent fishing port

In the city of Bremen seaport area:

• The tide-independent Dockhäfen with the Emperor harbors, car transshipment port and the Lloyd Werft
• The passenger port with more than 1200 meters long Columbuskaje
• The tidal container terminals I to III, IV CT ² together with the one of the largest container ports in the world with a continuous quay of around 5 km in length, with 14 berths and 3 km footprints

In the district Weddewarden:

• The container terminal IV

Port handling

The handling capacity in the ports of Bremen is characterized by strong growth in the years between 1990 and 2007. The transshipment volume had doubled, tripled the number of folded automobiles. The global financial crisis led to sharp declines in 2008 and 2009, especially in automobiles. This drop in throughput volumes could be largely offset in 2010 and increased in 2011 over 2007 levels. In the long term is expected to further significant increases, especially in the container business, which will have a corresponding impact on the seaport hinterland traffic.

In 2010, designed 7136 seagoing vessels with a total of 182 million GT in the ports of Bremen / Bremerhaven, of which 3762 container ships, general cargo ships 1223, 1156 Ro-Ro-Schiffe/Fährschiffe and vehicle transport ships and 213 other ships. The 53% of container ships had a share of 76 % of the port handling over lake. In the five years between 2005 and 2010, the average vessel size has increased by 50 % from 17,000 to 20,000 GT. This trend is dominated by container ships and set to continue, as will be responded with a deepening of the navigation channel in the lower Weser.

The cargo throughput increased from 2009 to 2010 by 9%. The handling of containers was more than 7% and the increase of automobiles by 32% over the previous year. The overall envelope of the Bremen ports then increased from 63 million tons to 68.9 million tons. Container throughput increased from 4.6 million TEUs to 4.9 million TEUs. The non-containerized general cargo transshipment of rose particularly strongly by 22%. 16 % of the increase was attributable to the ports of Bremen City.

Bremen's main trading partners were ( 2009 figures in millions of tons ):

• Import: USA: 3.53 - PRC: 3,51 - Norway: 2.9 - Russia: 2,2 - Sweden: 1.85 - Netherlands: 1.81 - Poland: 1,4 - Finland: 1.3 - United Kingdom: 0.98 - 0.83 Latvia - Canada: 0.82
• Export: USA: 4,9 - Russia: 2.5 - China: 2.4 - Poland: 1,2 - Italy: 0.99 - United Arab Emirates: 0.95 - Finland: 0.9 - Hong Kong: 0, 8 - Norway: 0,79 - India: 0.75 - Singapore: 0.73

Almost half of the goods envelopes take place in Europe to States.

Container ports

Bremerhaven

The Container Terminal Bremerhaven has been one of the largest container ports in the world. In 1968, the first quay of 700 m length. By 2008 it was extended to 5,000 m. The floor space of 3 million square meters is the largest single footprint in the world and entered in the Guinness Book of World Records. Conversely Beat 2008, approximately 3.24 million containers with around 55 million tons and 5.45 million TEUs ( units) were.

The envelope area is operated by three companies:

• Community of BLG / Eurokai KGaA ( EUR gate )
• Community of Euro Gate / MSC ( MSCgate )
• Community of Euro Gate / Maersk (NTB )

Container traffic by sea are expected in TEU PR China ( 749 226 ), United States ( 662 599 ), Russian Federation ( 390 712 ), Poland ( 196 256 ), Finland ( 168 535 ), Sweden ( 131 601 ) and Norway ( 124 562 ) the leading countries, the are supplied by the port group.

Bremen

The container terminal at the port of New Town was created in 1964. It has now in container traffic only of secondary importance.

Hinterland transport

In 2010, of the 4.9 million TEUs by seaward feeder transport around 3.0 million TEU transportiert.1, 9 million TEUs were part of the hinterland transport. These containers - in-and- evacuations were carried out at 51% across the street, to 45 % by rail and only 4% by barge. The share of rail traffic has increased in the period 2005 to 2010 by 37 to 45%.

Shipping lines

The major shipping lines lead to North America, South America, the Middle East and Asia.

Passenger traffic

In the area of passenger traffic are from the Columbus, the " Cruise Terminal Bremerhaven ", in 2009, approximately 126,000 passengers departed or arrived on cruise ships. Previously here laid the world-famous ships with the Blue Ribbon as the "Bremen" (1929 ), the "Europa" (1928 ) from the North German Lloyd and the " United States " (1952) by the United States Line on and off.

Car cover

As for the car envelope Bremerhaven has approximately 2.18 million vehicles in 2012 and 2013, the world's largest trading center for automobiles.

Car cover, there is also on the tidal river quay in Blumenthal.

Inland waterways

The ports of Bremen / Bremerhaven is a transhipment of cargo each year 5 to 6.5 million tonnes, which are transported from 6000-7000 barges, inland waterway transport one of the largest inland ports in Germany (Rank 8). Due to the many individual ports this traffic is very decentralized.

Social institutions

• The German Seamen's Mission Association ( DSM German Seaman's Mission ), a Christian social service for seafarers, has its headquarters in Bremen. It operates stations in 16 German cities and 17 cities outside Germany. At the headquarters, which is located across the street Jippen in Stephaniviertel in Bremen -Mitte, is also the Seemannsheim Bremen. It is operated by the Bremen Seemannsmission eV and is responsible for the ports in the city of Bremen.
• For the ports of Bremerhaven, including the city of Bremen seaport area Bremerhaven Bremerhaven German Seamen's Mission is responsible, as part of the station Bremerhaven for the German Seamen's Mission Hannover eV. It operates in Bremerhaven a sailors as well as a sailor 's club.

Port Baudirektoren, Upper Baudirektoren

A port construction office was in Bremen in the 19th century until about 1985. For the port construction or for the current in the line level, a port director of building and about the chief architect was responsible. (Note: The name of the degree function is not always coincide with the grade designation. )

• Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen (1800-1865), 1927 Port Planning Director for Bremerhaven, Bremen and later for
• Carl Friedrich Hanckes (1829-1891), 1872 Port Planning Director
• Franzius Ludwig (1832-1903), from 1875 to 1903 to Chief Planning
• Bucking Hermann (1848-1926), 1903-1915 Chief Planning
• Eduard Suling (1856-1922), 1913 Port Planning Director, 1915-1922 Oberbaudirektor
• Henry Tillman (1867-1959), 1920 Port Planning Director, 1922-1933 Oberbaudirektor
• Anton Hacker (1879-1942), 1922-1942 Port Planning Director
• Ludwig Plate (1883-1967), 1923-1949 Current building director, from 1933 Oberbaudirektor
• Agatz Arnold (1891-1980), 1930 Port Planning Director, from 1931 Professor of Foundation Engineering, Water and port construction
• Ralph Lutz (1915-1993), 1945 Port Planning Director, then to 1973 Senate Building Director
• Hans -Günter gutter, Port Planning Director to the 1970s and 1980s