Wirtschaftsverband Weser: The Upper Weser must remain a shipping route

Heavy goods transport on the Upper Weser is increasing

325 tonnes - so much as two Jumbo-Boeing 747 jets - weighs the Transformer, which is connected to the inlandship from the Ruhr area is transported across the Upper Weser. Thomas Lippel, Head of Department Waterways in the waterroads- and Shipping Office Weser, coordinates the loading. The Umtensioning plant at the former KernkThe power plant site in Würgassen will receive new, modern transformators that control the flow for hundreds of thousands of households both in the region of the Upper Weser Valley as well as in the direction of the cities of Hanover, Kassel and Göttingen.

Heavy goods transport such as Transformers, but also rotors for wind turbines or other machine parts, find the inland waterway transport increasingly attractive. The days of cargo shipping on the Upper Weser rails largely over. Today Passenger shipping, water sports and the Tourism. The fact that the Upper Weser still carries gravel or Transporting heavy goods by ship is important for the business location.

Heavy goods transport on the Upper Weser, photo: Wirtschaftsverband Weser e.V.