Currently the most important project in the Bremen seaports is the €30M expansion of the Imsumer Deich storage track complex at Bremerhaven’s überseehafen, according to Robert Howe, managing director of the ports’ management company, Bremenports. “The construction work is making good progress and is on schedule,” said Howe, speaking at the company’s review of 2016, before Christmas.
In 2015, Bremenports laid on additional tracks and train access technology at the Kaiserhafen, used primarily by car-carrying trains. The expanded storage tracks at Imsumer Deich, on the other hand, will mainly benefit container trains. The new tracks could go into operation at the end of 2017.
The construction site required for refurbishing the derelict western quay at Kaiserhafen III still has to be set up, said Howe. “It is no longer possible to calculate on paper whether or not the quay, which dates back to the days of Kaiser Wilhelm, is still sufficiently stable.
“The consortium of construction companies has ordered the steel, and is waiting until the pile-driving work can begin for the 500m-long quay. However, notification of the project by the EU Commission first has to be completed.”
Construction of the quay will involve investments of another €30M and will take around 18 months to complete. Some 50,000 m3 of soil has to be excavated and 4,000t of steel sheet piling and 3,500 m3
of concrete installed.
Work to raise, widen and reinforce the main sea dyke in Fischereihafen should be completed during Q3 2017. The cost of €3.7M will be split between the federal government (70%) and the Land of Bremen (30%).
Last autumn, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) presented Bremenports with the “ESPO Award 2016” in recognition of its overall concept for Luneplate. Luneplate is the central substitute site for the ecological compensation for port construction projects, and has become the largest nature reserve in the state.
As reported is some detail by WorldCargo News Online, the Outer Weser from the North Sea to Bremerhaven and the sector Nord BremerhavenBrake are to be dredged to accommodate vessels with a draught of 13.5m and 12.8m, respectively, irrespective of the tide.
As also reported online, Bremenports has extended its existing cooperation agreement regarding Iceland’s Finnafjord project by becoming a shareholder in the port development company, FFPD.
“The agreement ensures that our port planning experts can market their maritime, technical and ecological expertise in an international flagship project,” commented Martin Günthner, Bremen’s senator for economic affairs and ports. “The Icelandic government and the Icelandic general public regard the Finnafjord Port Project as the country’s most important infrastructure project right now. Shipping and logistics will increase significantly in this part of the world in future.”
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