Comprehensive investments at Rostock Port

Port of Rostock takes action to consolidate its position as a Baltic Sea hub for ferry and ro-ro traffic with Central and Eastern Europe:

Rostock Port is running a comprehensive investment program. In 2011 about EUR 50 million will be invested to improve the port infrastructure. About EUR 15 million thereof are budgeted for the northern expansion of Pier III. "Construction work shall be finished by 2012", Dr. Ulrich Bauermeister, Managing Director of the Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock, explained when presenting the figures of cargo throughput in the first six months of this year.

The construction of the new berth 15 at the eastern part of Pier III shall be implemented with financial means at the amount of EUR 6 million. The service platform of berths N° 3 and 4 in the oil port has already been renovated. Renovation of berth 5 with around EUR 2 million is scheduled to start this September. Construction of the eastern road link to the industrial area in the foreground of the port at EUR 2.5 million shall also start this autumn. About EUR 25 million are budgeted for the reorganisation of the ferry terminal this year.

"There has not been such a great number of complex large-scale construction sites and port developments at Rostock Port since the port was established more than 50 years ago", says Ulrich Bauermeister. "We are preparing the port for future tasks. Our aim is to make use of the full potential of the Baltic Sea port for middle and southeastern Europe and to create more industrial and maritime jobs in Rostock and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern through synergies." In the first half of the year 2011 a total of 12 million tons of cargo (gross) was handled at Rostock’s quay walls. About 11.1 million tons thereof were handled in the seaport and 900,000 tons in other facilities of Rostock Port, like the chemical port Yara and the freight and fish port. Cargo volumes in the seaport and other Rostock Port facilities are thus on the previous year’s level.

From a total of 11.1 million tons of goods handled in the seaport, rolling stock of ferry and ro-ro traffic accounted for 6.6 million tons. This segment was up six per cent compared on the previous year or 400,000 tons. Thus the share of ferry and ro-ro cargo transport amounted to 59 per cent of total cargo throughput in the universal port. 41 per cent or 4.5 million tons were handled in the segments bulk, liquid and general cargo, which means a decline of 400,000 tons or eight per cent compared on the first half of the year 2010.

3,734 ferry, ro-ro, freight and cruising vessels called the Rostock Port in the first six months of 2011; 2,559 of them were ferries. 166,848 trucks (accompanied) or seven per cent more were transported on the five ferry and three ro-ro lines from and to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the UK and Poland. Also throughput of unaccompanied units (trailers) rose 17 per cent to 57,435 trailers. The number of load units handled at the terminal for combined transport increased from 34,517 to 38,304 (up eleven per cent). Every week 26 combined transport trains are operated from/to Verona (13), Basel (5), Duisburg/Hamburg (6) and Wels in Austria (2).

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