Seaport of Rostock reduces investments in 2013

Despite smaller ro-ro volume – terminal expansion according to plan for multimodal load transport in the seaport of Rostock
 
The port development company of Rostock cuts this year’s investment budget of EUR 30 million by about EUR 9 million. “The reason therefore is the outstanding agreement about the use of the company profit of both shareholders, the citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Rostock and of the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This in turn leads to a stop for subsiddies from the state for investments of the port development company into public infrastructure. The resulting investment congestion for urgently needed infrastructure will have a massive impact on the competitiveness of the port of Rostock and all resident companies and lead to job losses also outside the port“, says Ulrich Bauermeister, managing director.
 
Notwithstanding, the reconstruction of terminals for combined transport will be completed by the end of 2013. After completion of the construction three more tracks will be available for transhipment. The five tracks will then be served by two new curve suitable gantry cranes. Total investment for the project amounts to EUR 17 million.
 
The terminal for combined transport sees 34 weekly intermodal trains to and from Verona (11), Hamburg (6), Karlsruhe (6), Novara (3), Brno (4) Wels (2) and Vienna (2 ). The number of trailers has dropped from 35,833 to 32,981 units in the first half of 2013.
 
At 10.4 million tonnes of total cargo the seaport of Rostock reached exactly last year’s result in the period from January to June again. Rolling cargo in ferry and ro-ro traffic accounted for 6.2 million tonnes of this total. In this segment, there was a slight decrease of 100,000 tonnes or one per cent. The share of the ferry and ro-ro cargo on the total throughput was 60 per cent in the first half of the year.

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