Bremerhaven expands its terminal railway
Offshore terminal and expansion of the railway infrastructure will be the benchmarks of future port investments in Bremen
Following century-investments such as the construction of container terminal 4 and the Kaiserschleuse lock, the ports of Bremen are about to tackle more projects to attract logistics customers. One key area of the future investments is the expansion of the terminal railway infrastructure in Bremerhaven. “We are expecting to handle 770 cargo trains per week there by the middle of the next decade", Holger Banik, managing director of bremenports said to journalists. “The infrastructure of the terminal railway is reaching its limits. Thus we are expanding it rapidly.“ In 2011 about 490 incoming and outgoing cargo trains per week were driven on the tracks of the terminal railway in Bremerhaven. In summer 2012 this figure increased to 630 trains per week.
The core piece of the railway investment in Bremen is the Imsumer Deich project. The tracks of the railway station at the terminal, at the edge of the container terminal, will be expanded by eight tracks (including electrification) 2016. The amount of about EUR 24 million include also means for relocating an American transport unit to another location. The railway network at the railway station Kaiserhafen is currently expanded. On the medium term more investments shall be implemented in Speckenbüttel: Another eight tracks, like at the Imsumer Deich, shall be built at the Norden Bremer before 2018.
Holger Banik named the Offshore-Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB) as a second key area. This project shall be implemented by 2016. The agenda provides for the construction of a 25 hectares transhipment area, with 500 metres quay length for up to 160 offshore wind power plants per year. Constructon works shall start by 2014. Holger Banik: “In the past ten years Bremerhaven had been evolving into Germany’s most important site for industrial production of the offshore wind industry. The new terminal at the Weser river will consolidate this status."
Quelle: LogEastics
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