40 million cubic meters of earth, Sand, and silt – so much to move the excavator to the fairway up in the lower Elbe for container ship-to-giant free. The mega-project, however, remains controversial.
Start by the push of a button: the Minister of transport Scheuer (3. v. l.) with representatives from industry and regional policy
The dredging to deepen the shipping channel on the Elbe river has officially begun. During a boat trip on the lower Elbe, the Federal Minister of transport, Andreas Scheuer, and representatives of the Senate and the authorities gave the symbolic starting signal for the construction work on the electricity. As a result, the suction tube of the Dredger “Scheldt River fell” in the river Elbe – after 17 years of planning and a number of court proceedings.
Scheuer said, 13 complaints and processes to be decided at the end of legally, all of the concerns of the courts has been resolved. Several nature and environmental organizations have demonstrated, but also to the start of construction on the investors in the schleswig-Holstein Wedel and near the dredging vessel on the river Elbe with the boats. They fear the devastating impact of the mammoth project on the natural landscape and its plant and animal world. The associations no longer require that large ships can sail up the Elbe, but your cargo in Wilhelmshaven delete a port with deep water.
“Expothafen for Bayern”
Minister Scheuer argues against the “best tested and most peer-reviewed infrastructure projects in Germany”. For him, Hamburg “is also the largest port of export for California” – where the Minister has his roots. Hans-Heinrich Witte, President of the Directorate-General for waterways and shipping, stressed, of the total cost of the deepening of the Elbe river, approximately 15 percent was attributable to environmental and nature conservation measures.
Hopper dredger “Scheldt River” took up the work of The suction dredger draws earth, Sand, and silt in the cargo compartment
In the future, vessels with a draught of 13.50 metres irrespective of the tide in the port of Hamburg, or leave. On the flood tide, the allowable depth may amount to 14.50 meters. In addition, the driving is broadened trough and a Begegnungsbox for ships in frond built. In order for a waterway that can be navigated in both directions, is a one-way street. Overall, could be reached by the deepening of the Elbe river up to three million containers in addition to Hamburg, without the shipping companies would have to use more ships.
Already since the beginning of the year, preparatory Work was carried out. The project is one of the largest River engineering works in the world – to be moved up to 40 million cubic meters of dredged material. This corresponds to almost a thousandth of the volume of water of lake Constance, which is generally indicated with 50 billion cubic meters. The work is expected to be completed in 2021.
jj/kle (dpa)
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreIt did not look encouraging in the port of Hamburg
Of the total goods and container handling, the largest German port was reduced in 2018 by a percentage. The container throughput has stagnated for years at around nine million standard containers (TEU). In the last year, there were only 8.7 million. Reason is the lower envelope of empty containers had been, it was said. In the case of loaded containers, the envelope remained unchanged.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreEuropean competitors continued to grow
Each of the two larger competitors, Antwerp and Rotterdam, let Hamburg far behind, and laid 2018 in container handling more. Rotterdam (the image) was an increase of five percent (14.5 million TEU) and Antwerp over 11 million TEU were handled. This confirms the Trend, according to which the distance to Hamburg from year to year.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreHamburg’s great hope
One reason for the slowdown: The increasingly larger container ships can reach the port of Hamburg just bad. The remedy is to bring a widening and deepening of the navigation channel. So, in the future, container ships with a draught of up to 13.50 metres irrespective of the tide and with a draught of up to 14.50 meters should be able to on the flood tide for the port of reach.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreThe neverending story
For the past 16 years, there are plans for the deepening of the Elbe river. But it was only in February of 2019, the Work has begun. Is completed the project at the earliest in two years. This alone could result for the port of Hamburg, an additional transhipment potential of around three million TEUs a year.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreThe dispute goes on
To rest the project for deepening of the Elbe has not come but still. Also after the start of construction, the legal battles go on, for the environmental associations do not hold the measure to be lawful. A renewed construction freeze not have applied but.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreThe ships are getting bigger and bigger
In 2017, the 400-metre-long container ship MOL Triumph was with a load capacity of 20,000 TEU in the port of Hamburg. Possible, but that was only because it was just about half of their maximum possible charge. Otherwise, you would not have come with a maximum draught of 16 metres over the Elbe to Hamburg and back. The latest ships will have a capacity of 23,000 TEUs.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreTo attack the polarity of
Elated by the Work begun at the fairway Jens Meier, the chief of the port authority HPA said: “We attack now.” Also, Hamburg’s Senator for economic Affairs, Michael West Hagemann widespread optimism: “We are now, with the start of the Dredging again, journey record”.
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The port of Hamburg beat off morePleasing it looks
…if you look at what is transported over Land. The “country-side seaport-hinterland traffic” to put the total in 2018, up by 2.7 percent, over the Rail, 4.7 percent more goods were transported. That’s the equivalent of over 60,000 freight trains with approximately 1.6 million freight cars. A new record result for the port of Hamburg is the leading European railway port.
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The port of Hamburg beat off moreLargest trading partner was also in 2018, China
Every third party in the port of containers handled in Hamburg owes the people’s Republic of. and the good land connection by rail. “In China, transport in Hamburg, moving a total of around 4.8 million TEU, we are compared to other European locations with a large distance between the leading Hub for China-charge”, says Axel Mattern, CEO, port of Hamburg Marketing.