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PORT DEVELOPMENT
Good timing means everything
The JadeWeserPort management company,
JadeWeserPort Realisierungsgesellschaft,
is tendering for a €2M feasibility
study to examine ways and means
to boost competitiveness and throughput
throughout the JadeWeserPort Logistics
Zone. The results of this EU-wide tender
should become available in 2015.
The document contains information
on the economic and technical case for
building a second container port to the
north of the existing terminal, of which
only phase 1 is operational. The findings
will serve as the basis for a political decision
as to the timing and procedures for
undertaking the expansion into the 2020s.
The tender covers various objects:
● Technical investigation for realising an
extended port area.
● Possible expansion of the road and rail
connections.
● Environmental impacts such as noise
and light nuisance from port operations.
● Feasibility of environmental mitigation
measures, for example compulsory cold
ironing, use of (battery) electric equipment,
LNG instead of diesel, etc.
The tender was drawn up by Jörg
Bode when he was minister for economic
affairs for the state of Lower Saxony (NS).
The CDU/FDP administration has been
replaced by a “red and green” coalition,
which has opted to carry on with Bode’s
plan as well as pursue new marketing initiatives.
JWP Realisierungsgesellschaft’s
managing director Axel Kluth described
the feasibility study as a positive sign. “We
need a little patience,” he said.
Understatement
Perhaps this is what us meant by an understatement.
The new Wilhelmshaven
container port faces serious problems, despite
ceaseless marketing and sales efforts
by JWP and the operator, Eurogate Group.
At the time of writing Eurogate’s top brass
are touring Prague and Budapest to promote
Germany’s only really deep water
container terminal. They have spent the
past two years “globe trotting” to drum
up support from the world’s shippers and
carriers, with little reward.
Phase 1 of the facility is handling a
weekly Maersk Far East service (AE-1
string) and (now) two regular Maersk
Seago Baltic feeder services, but throughput
in the first two months of 2013
amounted to just 7000 containers, far
below expectations and even that has
come off the Eurogate/Maersk joint venture
operation in Bremerhaven (NTB).
The Nordfrost group is the only tenant
in the logistics zone, although it has
been reported that a second customer, 3Y
Logistics, has been signed up and will invest
€15M-20M in a 2500 m 2 warehouse.
Maersk has a 30% stake in Eurogate’s
concession through APM Terminals. As
previously reported, 322 of the 400-strong
workforce has been put on short time
indefinitely. Officially Eurogate expects
volumes to start picking up this Autumn,
so normal working probably would not
be fully restored until early 2014.
The company is trying everything.
Its rail operating affiliates Eurogate
Intermodal and Acos are offering every
destination in Germany and neighbouring
countries through their own network
and their intermodal tariffs have been
adapted to the levels offered from Hamburg
and Bremerhaven. Acos is also operating
a shuttle service between
Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg and
Bremerhaven for containers being
shipped in and out over the three ports,
with guaranteed arrival times.
Heavy commitments
Between them the states of NS and
Bremen have invested €500M of taxpayers’
money to create JadeWeserPort, while
Eurogate’s commitment is up to E350M
if you count phase 2 cranes, straddle carriers,
etc. The port operating area occupies
130-ha and has a 1725m deep water
linear quay able to accommodate four
18,000 TEU vessels. The adjacent logistics
centre (GVZ) occupies another 160-
ha. Even when it opened (late) last September
the port was forecast to handle
180 ship calls in 2012 and 500 this year,
building to 880 calls annually in 2015.
Now is not a good time to be opening new
container terminals in Europe
“The forecast figures bumped into reality,”
remarked a spokesman for the NS
ministry of economic affairs. Eurogate
guaranteed a throughput of 700 000 TEU
in the first full year of operations. “Based
on the present situation it will only be a
portion of this figure,” stated Emanuel
Schiffer, Eurogate’s joint managing director.
Up to the end of April the facility is
understood to have handled 65,000 TEU.
Maersk has announced that it will call
at NTB Bremerhaven with the Triple E-
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class vessels, not Wilhelmshaven. This is a
blow for Eurogate and some hard talking
between the partners has been going on.
Over the years heaps of political as well
as investment capital have gone into
JadeWeserPort and relations are strained
at all levels. If an expansion programme is
undertaken, the state of Bremen would
have to contribute 50% of the costs, which
it is not keen on.
The state of Hamburg stayed away
from the project because it wanted to
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