SSF Ingenieure Hafenkompetenzen (EN)

German Port-Expertise Group

Ports/Port Infrastructure/Hinterland Connections Expertise Group for Ports / Facilities / Hinterland Connections

Editorial The progressive globalization of markets leads to increased mobility demands of freight traffic. A fast and reliable handling of goods is a decisive competitive advantage; the factors time and efficiency play an ever more important role. Navigation becomes a very significant mode of transport as 80 % of the international goods transport is handled by sea.

Cargo-handling of seaports grows rapidly due to the development of the international trade; ever larger ships complete the picture of the international flow of goods. Ports as interface of a worldspanning trade are subject to continuous development in view of adaptation to manage needs, utilization and goods distribution. To fulfil their key role in an interconnected and economically important logistics chain, existing sea and inland ports or berths have to be renewed or expanded and new container terminals and deepwater ports have to be built.

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The control and allotment of goods necessitate increased efficiency of hinterland delivery services. Without a doubt, great challenges are presented to security and expansion of performing traffic infrastructure to distribute goods overland. Logistics only work as efficient as the mode of transport permits it.

The port-expertise group is an association of Inros Lackner AG, SSF Ingenieure AG and RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, with

first rate experience in port, port logistic and infrastructure.

An interdisciplinary team of experts working in partnership and applying an integrated multi-disciplinary approach to resolve tomorrow‘s port issues today.

The members of port-expertise group are specialists in planning, design and management services for port and hinterland infrastructure, operations and financing. The range of expertise includes financial, business, commercial, and strategic plan-

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Our Teams are at the forefront of ensuring a comprehensive approach, fostered by a partnering culture. We help you emphasize your strengths, use important synergies, and fill possible voids.

Competence group port and port infrastructure The port-expertise group disposes of well-founded, comprehensive technical knowledge when it comes to the conception and

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design of constructions and operations and to authority permissions for terminals. Long-time experience and high technical know-how in the optimization of the design for necessary hinterland infrastructure favourably complete the range of services.

Our project partners are comprehensively advised by the port-expertise group in view of inland water ways, port logistics and port development concepts as well as planning and implementation of port facilities and the related infrastructure.

By integrating the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management of the RWTH Aachen University, we harness the knowledge of research and development for example for maritime and hydro-dynamic analyses. The union of the two companies and the University Aachen strives at an integrated pla­nning approach. Our studies and designs are based on sound analyses and are orientated to pragmatic processes and feasibility. The range of services includes the assessment and analysis of business, operation and technology situations in the context of projected developments. Our teams formulate sustainable and future-orientated solutions, carry out requirement analyses and cost-benefit-evaluations and specify requirements in view of technology, operation and investment.

The extensive service portfolio and the interdisciplinary cooperation of port-expertise group are the basis of successful implementation of numerous national and international port projects.

hensive knowledge and the understanding of the interaction of numerous factors for a successfully functioning port and its interfaces enable us to optimally support you at all stages of your project.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Sea and inland ports - Container and dry bulk terminals - Inland water ways - Quays - Pier constructions and wharfs - Weirs and locks - Ferry jetties - Ro-ro installations - Barrages - Access bridges and pontoons - Dolphins - Ship hoists - Special foundations under water - Tidal and wave power farms - Shipyard - Industrial, military and government facilities - Inspection and rehabilitation - Maritime security - Recreation facilities - Utility facilities

Hydraulic engineering & port construction Ports are important hubs for national and international trade. The performance and capacity of ports has to be adapted consistently to changing needs, while optimizing loading and unloading of ships. Inland ports as interface between land and water transport become multimodal logistics centres.

Of great importance for competitiveness of ports are, in addition to their geographic location and goods specializations, unhindered access of ships with required water depths for future large container ships, short lay days with fast cargo handling, suprastructure tailored to efficient operational processes and sufficiently interconnected, ideally trimodal hinterland connections.

To satisfy demands of modern international sea and transport business, a distinct infrastructure adapted to future needs is obligatory, comprising berths with quays, piers, crane and loading devices, tracks, supply and disposal installations. The compre-

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Port logistics/port supra-structure The amount of goods transported around the world increases incessantly. Goods are produced and delivered just-in-time. Transport processes are planned and implemented in such a way that the goods arrive where they are needed and when they are needed. This is a great challenge to the logistics chain as delivery and dispatch follow an assembly-line-principle. In addition to intelligent and future-orientated traffic concepts, this is only achievable by modern logistics solutions. Especially, the large sea and inland ports have to adapt logistics concepts and cargo handling infrastructure unceasingly to the needs of the market.

Long queues of sea and inland ship traffic cost time and money and decrease competitiveness of ports and the connected region.

Before planning port, logistics and transport projects, comprehensive conceptual and strategically location and potential analyses regarding ship movements, utilization and cargo handling quantities are required to durably assure quality and economic efficiency of the projects. Moreover, on the basis of detailed market evaluations, the need for technical installations and equipment as well as operational and personnel requirements are to be assessed.

An accurate examination of technical and financial feasibility is necessary to answer questions of appropriate and durable investment in the port infrastructure. To solve these tasks, specialists of the port-expertise group are at your availability with competence and innovative solutions. Know-how and experience are com-

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pleted by modern planning and simulation tools such as numeric modelling for utilization optimization and performance increase.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Evaluation of needs and development concepts for new construction and capacity expansion - Utilization optimization, efficiency and performance increase - Location and potential analyses, utilization of locations - Calculation of profitability (over-all and business related), cost-benefit-analyses in consideration of effects to the regional economy - Assessment of investment volume and operating expanses - Container logistics, break bulk logistics

- Concepts for logistics services - Concepts for multimodal logistics centres - Traffic and navigation prognoses, goods turnover forecasts - Freight handling methods and operational criteria (e.g. ship movements, downtimes) - Quantities of ships to be expected, port access, manoeuvre studies, operation studies - Simulation of logistics processes - Logistics consulting for port supra-structure - Dimensioning and choice of handling technology - Technological concepts for operation of terminals - Marketing concepts and reorganization studies

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Hydromechanics The safety-orientated, durable and economical conception of hydraulic installations requires a sound analysis and founded comprehension in view of hydromechanic strains to be expected.

Hydromecanic influences result from water levels, sea states and drifts and interact with bathymetry and morphological development near the coast and the catchment area.

To fulfil its tasks, the port-expertise group harnesses a broad range of well-tried modelling and analysis processes. Representing the scientific and at the same time practical conditions, we offer our project partners hydro-numerical models, scaled physical model tests carried out in technically high-grade laboratories or coordinated combinations of these procedures. In the context of these applications, the definition of an economically and technically optimum solution is our declared aim.

Tides, sea state and drifts are complex phenomena. Their analysis, the derivation of calculation values and their treatment to include them in hydro-numerical and physical simulations are part of our services. Effects of climate change can be taken into consideration in specific model sceneries as result of our work.

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Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group -M odel topographies -A nalyses of hydraulic optimizations of quays, fairways and port accesses -A nalyses of hydraulic effects of ports to the tide dynamic -A nalyses of storm surge dynamics -A nalyses of effects of ports to morphodynamics and sediment transport of adjoining waters -H ydrodynamic simulations - Studies on wave disturbances in harbours and on ship movements - Drift forecast and predictions on sedimentation in harbours and access channels - Hydraulic studies to support planning and environmental impact studies -B arrage procedures -N avigation simulation -C onception and optimization of dredging and disposal -W ave modelling -H ydrodynamic and pollutant transport modelling - S ea state analyses and coast morphology studies

1 Flow model for port extension 2 Flow model for port extension 3 Hermsdorfer Kreuz Motorway A4 Erfurt-Dresden / A9 Nuremberg-Berlin; Extension of motorway interchange

Coast and flood protection Coast and flood protection is a central topic all around the world and especially in hydraulic engineering and water resources management with the background of the foreseen climate change.

The targeted development of coastal strategies and reliability of coast and flood protection installations are tightly connected with efficient coastal and flood risk prevention measures, i. e. at some levels, they are the basis of durable protection of humans and securing of economic activities in the future.

The transverse and longitudinal transport of sediments places high demands on the coast area management. Progress as well as retreat of the coastline have to be closely observed to protect people living near the coast but also to fulfil needs of economic exploitation and have, if necessary, to be counteracted with regulatory measures.

Coast protection and coast area management comprise breakwaters, groynes and sand fillings.

The specialists of port-expertise group have gained relevant experience in many successfully accomplished projects. To implement

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integrated coast area management and reliable and future-orientated flood protection, we offer a vast portfolio of conception and planning services for inland and seacoast areas.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Flood protection planning - Establishing of risk management strategies - Participation at the evaluation of technical standards - Development and updating of technical regulations - Linear flood protection in inland, estuary and coastal regions - Flood protection measures in confined areas - Barrages - Dykes - Flood protection walls - Flood retention basins - Breakwaters - Sand nourishments - Groynes - Analyses of planned constructional coast protection measures

Hinterland connections The growth envisaged in the years to come of sea traffic places high demands on the infrastructure to be able to handle the goods volume expected in the terminals in future. Connections to the hinterland have to be assured by road and rail with focus on goods and demands. Moreover, particular attention has to be paid to the development of inland waterways. Inland navigation as environment-friendly traffic mode has to be enabled to exhaust

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its potential in container and bulk material transport. Incoming and outgoing hinterland traffic has to be analyzed in terms of transport times; goods flows within the terminal have to be assessed for their process mechanisms. The aim to be envisaged for an efficiency increase are faster processing times – e.g. by decreased shunting times on the tracks – and reduced HGT between the individual modules of the terminals. The

optimization potentials lie in bundling traffic, planning and conception of handling processes, and distance optimization.

Optimizations, however, are only reasonable when the capacities of the infrastructure suffice to realize the concepts. The best handling installation and the most intelligent solution are useless when goods are not transported fast and reliably.

The experience and the wide-range special knowledge of the

1 Container Terminal Altenwerder Hamburg – 1,562 m long quayside (24 m slope) for four 12,000 TEU container ships 2 Systematic impact analysis Correlations and interactions of indicators and subsystems affected by port development

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increased added value

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increase of job offers reduced emission

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port-expertise group result in planning approaches with efficient and inventive solutions for the concept, design and implementation of multimodal infrastructures by at the same time taking into consideration requirements of operation and logistics of port businesses and of regional and national transport networks.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Roads and motorways - Track connections, shunting yards, railway links - Bridges - Tunnels - Special civil engineering - Buildings and industrial installations - Weirs and locks - Special constructions Engineering High economic efficiency, great flexibility, pleasant design and optimized construction times, in consideration of sustainable utilization, are of priority in our concepts and implementations of developed projects and constructions. Our reflections on economic efficient projects do not end with the first use but extend over the whole life cycle of the structure.

The teams of port-expertise group are specialized to turn to account their widespread knowledge and long-time experience in the fields of civil engineering, structural engineering and geotechnique and to make the best of it in a thorough interdisciplinary dialogue to optimize the projects as a whole. The estimation of implementation, costs and schedule risks and unpredictability in difficult and complicated conditions are also part of our services

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as well as planning coordination of to assure rational and efficient execution on the construction site.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Quays and piers - Special civil engineering and underpinnings - Bridges - Tunnels, submerged tunnels, supply tunnels - Caissons, sheet pile walls, bored pile walls and diaphragm walls - Culverts - Weirs - Locks - Barrages - Wharfs and pontoons - Dolphins Environmental planning and environment protection The increasing flow of goods in foreign trade effect mostly the coastal areas with their ports, which are susceptible to conflict because of their concentration of different utilization interests and their demand for protection in very constricted area. All around the world coast areas and the sea are more and more seen as room with potential for economic development and resource extraction. But they are also highly sensitive natural areas, which are endangered far into the back country by the complex interaction of infrastructure and regional and economic development.

Environmental protection and landscape planning are prerequisites to guarantee sustainable use and development of our environment with its natural life basis. Especially large infrastructure and complex construction projects require profound analyses of nature, sea and land as well as detailed environmental planning.

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Environmental impact studies or landscape conservation planning allow the consideration of all environmental needs and are the basis for approval procedures to construct and operate port complexes.

Our teams, to which belong biologists, dispose of wide-ranging national and international experience and contacts and assure sound integration of ecological principles into engineering designs. To handle all relevant environmental questions, a performing geographical information system (ESRI-GIS) is at our availability which collects, treats and evaluates environmental data and their presentation.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Ecological expertises - Strategic environmental planning - Environmental impact studies - Landscape protection planning - FFH compatibility studies - Layout planning and final designs - Sustainable environment management - Geographic information system

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Geotechnics The port-expertise group offers a broad range of geotechnical, geological and hydrological services in the context of quays, bridges, tunnels, caverns and underpinnings. The close and interdisciplinary cooperation of the team of planners for port and port infrastructure profit by optimized processes and technical solutions resulting from the interaction of constructional and geo-scientific approaches. The activities comprise planning and assessment of economic preliminary concepts to reveal reliable and comprehensive prognoses of the geological, hydrological and geotechnical conditions; moreover, the geological-geotechnical consulting during planning and the geotechnical project management during construction as well as documentation and evaluation of collected data in view of complete quality assurance are part of our services.

Precondition for all above mentioned aspects is well-founded and specific expert knowledge in the field of geo-science, regional geology and earth history, petrography, tectonics and sedimentology as well as soil and rock mechanics, slope stability, groundwater management and special civil engineering.

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Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - g eological an geotechnical feasibility studies - g eological research - design, tender and supervison of on- and off-shore investigations - e ngineering geological reports - g eotechnical interpretative reports (GIR) - g eotechnical modelling and clculation (e.g. slope stability, settlement, shear failure) - d esign of draw-down installations - h ydrogeological modelling and calculation - g eotechnical reports - engineering geological and geotechnical site management and supervison Consulting In addition to traditional engineering activities, we offer comprehensive consulting and support: from management consulting, project development to project management and establishing of technical

risk analyses to encourage decision finding for project financing and to help develop financing models.

Portfolio of services of the port-expertise group - Feasibility studies - Due diligence - Project management - Business consulting - Risk assessment - Tender writing - Contract management

1 River regulation – channel straightening of the river Danube 2 Geotechnical consulting – Railway Bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing 3 Cross section of a groyne head

German Waterway Danube – landscape conservation plan for planning permission for expansion Vilshofen

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Planning

2004 – 2007

Execution

2004 – 2007

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structural design of constructions BW 1.1, 1.2 and 2, and of substructures of constructions BW 3 to 5

Federal Republic of Germany, Waterways and Navigation Administration, represented by the RMD Wasserstraßen GmbH, Munich

Planning

1997 – 2001

Execution

2000 – 2006

Services

Environmental impact study and landscape conservation plan for plan approval incl. plan change procedure in 2006 in order to implement a boat port

Extension – Technical - Dredging in the gravel of the Danube bottom and planning and construc- chiseling in the rocks for construction tion measures of the navigation channel with a width of 90 m and a depth of 3.10 m underneath the regulated low water level - Planning of two longitudinal dykes on the left side of the navigation channel, in which overflow areas are secured throughout the year - Front-fill of the right river bank with gravel and rock replacement in the dredged navigation channel (width: 14 to 30 m) Improving access to the port of Gdansk with the Sucharski link road Client

DRMG (City of Gdansk Development Department)

Planning

2008 – 2009

Execution

2010 – 2013

Services

Feasibility study, overall concept for roads, bridges and the tunnel under the Vistula River, variation study for crossing of the Vistula River as tunnel solution (docking method, immersed tunnel, tunnel boring machine), project and execution planning as well as tender planning and technical instructions for imple of construction.

The Sucharski link road to improve access to the port of Gdansk covers an overall length of about 8,430 m and consists of 3 working lots. The general scope of services for SSF Ingenieure in joint venture with EURO-PROJEKT Gdansk and close cooperation with Wagner Ingenieure GmbH covers the overall design together with approval planning through to execution planning. The link road is to be constructed with 2 lanes in each direction. Initially 3 lanes were intended in the tunnel as a precaution for the future. However, the 3rd lane has been waived after review of the overall investment costs and the predicted traffic development.

Landside container storage and distributation by DRMG

The bridge is composed of 6 individual structures that are connected with each other on the separating piers by deck transition elements.

-B W 1.1: prestressed concrete T-beam over 10 fields with a total length of 327.5 m -B W 1.2: composite box girder over 6 spans with a total length of 317.0 m - BW 2: cable stayed bridge with 583.3 m total length -B W 3 to 5: prestressed concrete box girders with 10 spans each, total length 532.3 m, 532.2 m and 539.0 m The Ziegelgraben bridge implemented as cable-stayed bridge with strand stays has a pylon height of 87 m and a pier height of 46 m the maximum span reaches 198 m.

Deep water Container Terminal “JadeWeserPort” in Wilhelmshaven, Germany Client

JadeWeserPort Realisierungsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Germany

Planning

2004 – 2007

Execution

2008 – 2012

Services

Structural and detailed design Elaboration of constructions contracts Participation in award of contract Public relations Project management Health and safety coordination Site supervision

The entire project, - Construction of a 1,725 m long quay for container including the port vessels (27 m slope) installations and also - Reclamation fill of the terminal area (approx. 350 ha a road and train conand 43 million m³ sand) nection, comprises the - Fixation of the northern and southern slope as well following elements as of the protection dike, construction of the junction to the protection dice - Ground management, including measures for the settlement acceleration - Diversion of the Jade fairway, including the adaptation of the leading lights to 60 m above water level

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Extension and Modernisation of the Port of Praia / Cape Verde Islands

Development of improved Strategies for Sustainable Environmental Management in Brazilian Harbours

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Millennium Challenge Account Cabo-Verde & ENAPOR, Praia, Cape Verde Islands

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Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Planning

2006 – 2009

Planning

2008 – 2010

Execution

since 2010

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2013

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- Evaluation and review of preliminary design and tender documents (DB and DBB) - Consulting services, reports and expertise during contract award and technical and environmental issues - Management and supervision of the construction works - Engineering Consortium with Bremenports and Consulgal

- Port master planning and zoning - Port infrastructure and traffic corridors - Port superstructure, installation and main equipmen - Port organisation and management - Cargo handling procedures Dredging management - Identification of potential contaminant sources in the port

Both the extension and modernization of the Port of Praia are the main objectives of an adaption of handling operations and security to international standards and a reduction of vessel and cargo dwell time.

Extension of Muuga Port, Tallinn / Estonia Client

Ministry of Economic and Communications, Tallinn; Estonia

Planning

2005

Execution

2006

Services

Overall management of the project Design and tender documents for the wharfage, including dredging and filling works

In the frame of the Trans-European Network, the Muuga Port shall be widely improved.

The extension measures consist of following components:

- Layout and preliminary design for 3 master plan alternatives, detailed design for the selected alternative, considering market development and traffic forecasts until 2025; - Cost-benefit-analysis; - Environmental impact assessment; - Consultancy to the client concerning the application for financial support by the EU Cohesion Fund; - Preparation of tender dossier according to FIDIC regulations;

The selected development option comprises terminals for container, metal and dry bulk handling. 1,000 m of quay wall with a water depth of 16 m were planned in Phase 1, whereas the total quay wall length for the final development amounts to 1,800 m.

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The overall objective of the project was to develop strategies for sustainable environmental management in and around different Brazilian seaports. This project aims to address harbour issues: coastal zone management, pollution and living resources. The port management and organisation as well as the port infrastructure and cargo operations at the Port of Paranaguá has been assessed with focus on main bottlenecks or weaknesses regarding environmentally sustainable management, operation and development of the port.

The activities within the study were: - Analysis of port zoning and area management - Study on commodity mixture and cargo volumes Feasibility study for the construction of a distribution weir at Neschwitz, Germany – Flood and Costal Protection Concept Client

Landestalsperrenverwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen (Betrieb Spree/Neisse)

Planning

2008

Execution

2008

Services

Feasibility study

In line with the “Hoyaswerdaer Schwarzwasser Flood and Coastal Protection Concept”, several measures for flood protection have been identified. The measures M 175 – construction of a new weir – and the subsequent enlargement of the flow cross section (M 174) have considerable influence on the boundary conditions of the further measures to be planned. For this reason, a feasibility study has been firstly carried out, in which possible weir structures and the consequent runoff of the Zeschaer flood basin and Hoyerwerderae Schwarzwasser as well as the resulting backwater to the forebay had to be investigated.

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New construction of a trimodal combined traffic terminal in the freight traffic centre in Port of Nuremberg

Master Plan for the Extension of the Port of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Client

Port Nuremberg-Roth GmbH, Germany

Client

Planning

2003– 2005

Port Autonome de Nouakchott – Port de l’Amiteé (PANPA)

Services

General planning of the new construction of a trimodal combined traffic terminal at the freight traffic centre in the Port of Nuremberg

Planning

2008 – 2010

The consultancy services aimed at

Getting a precise idea of the evolution of demand (quantity and nature) Proposing a master plan for the development of the Port Autonome de Nouakchott (PANPA)

General planning comprised engineering structures, track installations, road and traffic surfaces, control and signalling technique, mechanical facilities, drainage installations, infrastructure installations as well as related design and consulting services for a dispatching building. The concept of the combined traffic terminal had to be established and revised in order to be approvable (incl. a detailed cost calculation).

Tracks in the Hanseatic Harbour of Magdeburg Client

Port Magdeburg, Germany

Planning

2003 – 2006

Services

Preliminary design for signalling and high voltage installations; draft and approval design for track and switches including all signalling and high voltage installations; also – depending on the financing of the German State – final design, tender design, evaluation of tenders, construction management and project support and documentation for all trades.

The Consultant’s scope - Examination of options for the extension of the Port of works consisted of of Nouakchott based on the two currently retained alternatives for the first extension phase as well as the possible future related developments; - Review of correspondent investment projects and establishment of the consolidated development program of the port.

The newly built track system is in total 4 kilometres long. The maximum permissible speed reaches 20 km/h. 9 new switches are built and a railway crossing secured by light signals. Track illumination is planned, too.

In the loading area of the combined freight traffic terminal, the tracks are passable for heavy goods vehicles and are built with ballastless track with Ph37 rails in cast in-situ concrete.

Container Terminal CT 4, Bremerhaven, Germany Client

Hafengesellschaft Bremenports GmbH & Co. KG

Planning

2004 – 2006

Services

Detailed design for the signalling equipment of the final condition and suitable construction levels for the area of the quayside railway Bremerhaven and the „Deutsche Bahn AG“. In the area of the quayside railway, the extended trackage will be equipped with new safety devices of the interlocking system technology „SpDrS60“ and connected to the existing interlocking plant „ Stf”. The reconstruction measures at the neighbour railway station „Speckenbüttel“ require adaptations with regard to the interlocking plant „Sf” of the „Deutsche Bahn AG“, used in the construction type „SpDrS6000“. In order to maintain the operation during the construction works, several construction levels have to be realized.

Project description: Bremerhaven with its container terminal „Wilhelm Kaisen“ consisting of the container terminals I — III is the most important container handling facilities in Germany. The worldwide development of the container handling has increased during the last years to such an extent that the location of Bremerhaven as future-oriented container handling facilities can only be secured by an extension of a new container terminal IV.

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