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Boost for Magdeburg
Germany’s inland port of Magdeburg on the River Elbe is to receive €40M for new infrastructure investments. A new lock and dam system will be constructed, along with 700m of new quay walls, while some existing berths will be revamped and modernised.
The Saxony-Anhalt land, the federal German government and the EU will contribute €36M to the project, and the remaining €4M will come from the city of Magdeburg. Construction work will not commence before 2018, as the project has to be tendered throughout Europe.
“If everything goes to plan, we will be ready by 2020,” said Karl-Heinz Ehrhardt, managing director of Magdeburger Hafen GmbH. He believes throughput could grow by up to 10% annually, and added that the port is in contact with IKEA regarding a new DC that could furnish around 1,000 additional waterborne containers annually.
The port currently handles around 5 Mtpa (all cargo types). It is located at the ‘cross-flow’ of the River Elbe, Mittellandkanal and Elbe-Havel-Kanal, and serves an important industrial cluster. Shippers close to ports are moving more and more towards environmentally friendly waterways for cargo movement, added Saxony-Anhalt’s minister for economic affairs Armin Willingmann.
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