PORTS PILOT PORTS Pilot – yOuR cross-medIa guIde to The PORTS Of BRemen/BRemeRhaven 3 The PORTS Pilot provides concise and concen - trated information about the universal ports app of Bremen and Bremerhaven and succeeds the Bremen/Bremerhaven Ports handbook, which presented the service portfolio of the ports of Bremen every two years until 2013. dOwnload The Ports Pilot As part of this relaunch, the publisher bremen­ PORTS Pilot aPP ports has deliberately opted for cross­media presentation of the contents. Many parts of this print version provide cross­references to the Ports Pilot app, which contains up dated and more detailed information about the port locations. the app includes not only the entire articles featured in the printed version, but also additional contents such as events, the company directory of the ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven, maps of the ports and ships in port. N Bremerhaven Bremen 4 5 Index ndex i > two ports – one group: the ports of Bremen/Bremerhaven 06 Ports Pilot Ports Pilot > Bremerhaven – Container, cars and innovations 08 > Port map Bremerhaven 09 > terminals in Bremerhaven 10 > Bremen – Conventional handling and logistics 16 > Port map Bremen 17 > terminals in Bremen 18 > logistics centres in Bremen 22 > greenports 24 > offshore terminal Bremerhaven 26 > Contacts 28 > imprint 30 SeRvIceS aT a gLance > Container handling incl. comprehensive related services, such as container leasing and stuffing, repairs, container depot and 6 7 hinterland transport organisation > organising and handling road and rail TwO PORTS – One gROuP collection and delivery services for The PORTS Of BRemen/BRemeRhaven container transports > Automobile handling incl. upstream and downstream services he ports of Bremen the maritime logistics centre Bremen/Bremer­ the division of labour is the key to the success of > Handling non-containerised general cargo, he ports of Bremen t t haven is one of the most important universal the twin ports. Bremerhaven is the port of choice ro-ro handling ports in Europe. Container and cars, general and for container vessels, car carriers and refrigera­ > transshipment, storage and handling of bulk cargo, project cargo and dangerous goods ted fruit carriers and accounts for approx. 80 per tropical fruit – the terminals in Bremen and Bremerhaven cent of the total freight volume handled by the handle practically all kinds of freight, around 80 port group. Moreover, the coastal port is evolving > Handling heavy-lift cargo million tonnes of cargo every year (as at 2014). into a centre for the offshore wind industry. the > Handling bulk goods other prime characteristics of Bremen’s ports ports in the city of Bremen, on the other hand, are an efficient cruise terminal, excellent over­ enjoy a leading position amongst Europe’s pro­ > storage and transshipment of food, be- seas and hinterland connections, a large number ject and break bulk terminals and are one of the verages and tobacco (coffee, cocoa, tea, of specialist companies as well as outstanding top ports for bulk goods handling. tobacco, spices and other natural products) logistics expertise. > Contract logistics, project logistics container, cars and innovations – the Ports in bremerhaven container terminals ●i Page 10 Nordschleuse offshore terminal ●i page 26 columbuskaje ●i page 14 railway station planned Nordhafen The water depths at Bremerhaven make it Osthafen Imsumer Deich directly accessible by seagoing vessels and WESER Kaiserhafen III auto terminals i page 11 Kaiserhafen II ● therefore ideal for container throughput. Kaiserhafen I Moreover, this part of the Bremen/Bremer­ fischereihafen ●i page 15 haven group of ports is also the leading Euro­ Neuer Hafen pean automobile hub and is also evolving into a Alter Hafen key port for the offshore industry. Vessels with a draught of up to 12.8 metres can reach the 8 Geeste 9 port irrespective of the tidal conditions. railway station Speckenbüttel railway station Wulsdorf main station Bremerhaven Bremerhaven the international Port of bremerhaven Bremerhaven consists of: railway station motorway junction Lehe > the Container Terminal with a total quay length of Bremerhaven- motorway junction around five kilometres and a storage and operating Wulsdorf Bremerhaven- motorway junction area of more than 3 million m2, Geestemünde Bremerhaven-Mitte 27 > Columbuskaje, the terminal for cruise liners, motorway junction Bremerhaven- fruit carriers and general cargo Überseehäfen > Kaiserhafen I, II and III > Verbindungshafen (oil terminal) and > Osthafen and Nordhafen (automotive, other break bulk) the Ports of bremerhaven The app provides an interactive map of the port. EFFICIENT PORT OF CALL FOR MEGA-CARRIERS AUTOMOBILE HUB AND GLOBAL PLAYER 10 CONTAINER TERMINAL BREMERHAVEN AUTO TERMINAL BREMERHAVEN 11 Bremerhaven is the fourth-largest container day-to-day operations: the northern part is More than two million vehicles per annum individual special equipment and handles pre- terminal in Europe and one of the major trans- managed by North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven (as at 2014) cross the quays at Bremerhaven, delivery inspections. High quality, continuous shipment hubs for intermodal import and (NTB), a joint venture of EUROGATE and APM making the seaport one of the world’s largest logistics, effi cient rail and road transport export consignments. Terminals. EUROGATE runs the centre section automobile hubs. connections and a fully range of services are as a multi-user terminal and MSC Gate, a joint amongst the terminal’s many strong points. Its success story began back in 1968, when venture of the Mediterranean Shipping Compa- The terminal has operating and storage space construction work began on the fi rst 700-metre ny (MSC) and EUROGATE, operates in the south for 120,000 cars, including covered storage for long quay. Over a total of six expansion phases of the terminal. 45,000 vehicles. Another important segment is Terminals in Bremerhaven Terminals (the last of which was the large-scale Container “high & heavy”, i.e. large, heavy or bulky vehicles in Bremerhaven Terminals Terminal 4 project, with a quay length of 1,680 or ro-ro trailers that are preloaded at the metres), it has evolved into an impressive port terminal. The products supplied by European complex with a total quay length of around fi ve manufacturers are exported via Bremerhaven AUTO TERMINAL kilometres as well as a storage and opera- CONTAINER TERMINAL primarily to destinations in the USA, East Asia (KAISERHÄFEN II & III) ting area of more than 3 million m2. It boasts and the Middle East, while the imports come > 4,930 m long quay > 3,020 m long quay extensive space and productive handling times mainly from Japan, Korea and the USA. > 14 berths for mega-container vessels > 15 berths for car carriers for the world’s largest container vessels. > approx. 3 million m2 outdoor operating area > 963,000 m2 total area, But the Auto Terminal does more than just > 30,000 m2 covered storage area of which 360,000 m2 covered Operations are handled by various enterprises load and discharge vehicles: it also offers > 7,386 reefer container hook-ups > up to 11.0 m water depth which work in close cooperation to deal with fi nishing, repair and retrofi tting services, installs TemPeRaTuRe-cOnTROLLed caRgO fOR a portfolio of specialist services offered by a range of companies that is unmatched anywhere else in europe provides a sound basis for the top quality of Bremerhaven as a temperature- controlled logistics location. 12 euROPe – fRuIT TeRmInaLS and cOLd store 13 Bremerhaven is one of the foremost locations in europe for the transshipment of tempera- heueR LOgISTIcS BLg cOLdstore ture-controlled food products, in both the The SPecIaLISTS fOR BananaS & cO. The cOLd store Of euROPe chilled and deep-frozen segments. two dedicated fruit terminals at Kaiserhafen For decades, the terminal operator Heuer logis­ BlG Coldstore, the largest commercial cold store and Columbuskaje guarantee efficient hand­ tics has offered both producers and buyers a full in Europe, is located in the immediate vicinity ling thanks to excellent infrastructure and range of fruit handling services – from expert of the fruit and container terminal at the free erminals in Bremerhaven erminals in Bremerhaven t large storage capacities. Every year, more than fRuIT TeRmInaLS t transshipment and climate­controlled storage port and has storage capacity for approx. 31,000 250,000 tonnes of fruit and vegetables, fish and BLg cOLdstore to quality control and customs clearance, right pallets. Every year, it handles well over 100,000 and seafood and frozen meat are loaded and > 600 m long quay through to just­in­time delivery to the wholesale tonnes of frozen and refrigerated foods as well discharged at these terminals. Diverse frozen­ > 5 berths with water depths of up to 11.3 m and retail trade. the core business involves the as temperature­sensitive non­food shipments. storage warehouses, some located directly > 94,000 m2 total area, transshipment of bananas from south and Cen­ the service portfolio covers the entire import and at the Container terminal, take frozen ship­ of which 13,000 m2 covered tral America. export logistics chain. ments into storage before distributing them to > 30,500 m2 cold store destinations throughout Germany and the rest > 115,000 m2 logistics area of Europe. > 20,000 pallets for climate-controlled storage > 31,000 pallets capacity (BlG coldstore) mOdeRn, SecuRe, PuRPOSe-Built fISheRy meeTS wInd eneRgy 14 cRuISe TeRmInaL BRemeRhaven fIScheReIhafen BRemeRhaven 15 One of the most modern passenger terminals Bremerhaven is one of the leading locations in the former fish factory buildings and the old in europe, columbus cruise center Bremer - germany for fish and food processing. fish railway station have meanwhile evolved haven (cccB), plays a key role for Bremer- into a tourist centre called “schaufenster haven’s growing attractiveness as a tourist the entire supply chain of the fish industry is Fischereihafen”. it offers a wide selection of destination. represented at Fischereihafen: medium­sized cultural events, art galleries, restaurants and firms and large corporations such as Deutsche trendy pubs.