Category: Shipping

Jade-Weser Port puts all its eggs in one basket

Jade-Weser Port puts all its eggs in one basket

Posted by | 7 Feb 2014 | , | 7

The situation at Germany's most modern deep-water port, the Jade-Weser-Port in Wilhelmshaven, is portrayed as dramatically bad. In 2013, 76,265 containers are said to have been handled in the port, which is only around 10% of what port operators and economic forecasts had expected. The daily newspaper Die Welt writes: "Last year, 76,265 standard containers were handled at the Jade-Weser Port. The seaport is designed to handle 2.7 million containers a year - in the first expansion stage. This figure was announced by the port operator Eurogate, the largest company of its kind in Europe. The announcement almost seems baffling: Eurogate has increased container handling to a total of 14.2 million TEU (twenty...

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The harbour concept cannot come soon enough

The harbour concept cannot come soon enough

Posted by | 15 Oct 2013 | , , | 1

Last week, the time had come: what is currently the world's largest container ship, the "Majestic Maersk", moored at JadeWeserPort for the first time together with the "Eugen Maersk", albeit unscheduled. Nevertheless, operators and politicians expect this to send out a signal that emphasises the JadeWeserPort's ability to handle the world's largest container ships, regardless of the tide. Opened around a year ago and designed to handle 2.7 million containers, the port's operations have been sluggish, however. "Of course, the two ships are not the big breakthrough, because what we need are regular lines that...

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Maritime safety key topic at the 25th SMM in Hamburg

Posted by | 7 Sep 2012 | , , | 2

MS&D 2012 - international conference on maritime security and defence - took place in Hamburg on 4 and 5 September as part of the 25th SMM, shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair. Here is the final report on MS&D 2012 from the perspective of Messe Hamburg and DMI: "The integration of MS&D as a maritime security and defence conference into SMM as the world's leading trade fair for the maritime industry was the right step at the right time," said Bernd Aufderheide, CEO of Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH, drawing a positive conclusion. Even in the run-up to the conference there had been a great deal of interest from industry and international military delegations. The very well-structured range of topics, which covered technical as well as strategic, economic and political aspects, was a success factor for the tight, one-and-a-half-day conference, he said, adding that another important argument for organising MS&D together with SMM was the expansion of the nomenclature for the world's leading maritime trade fair. "By integrating MS&D, SMM has gained a new, attractive and promising area. This has already proved its worth this first time round," said Aufderheide. Heinz Schulte, Editor-in-Chief at DVV Media / Griephan, event partner together with the German Maritime Institute (DMI), agreed: "It was a great opportunity for us to go alongside the MS&D at the SMM. We should stick to this basic concept of organising the MS&D as part of the SMM. "The approximately 250...

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