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or heavy duties upto approx 480 Tons
Cuxport Services provider for the offshore industry The services that the terminal operator Cuxport offers its customers are as varied as the demands of the wind power sector. Located at the mouth of the river Elbe, where the water is deep enough for sea-going vessels, the port logistics company has gained a reputation as an efficient partner for wind park operators, energy supply companies and the foundation manufacturers.
ial offshore platform at a deep water berth
00 tons of wind energy installations
ng up of wind energy plants and equipment
of supply chains
elds in the German Bight
ood hinterland links
50 meteric tons
CuxportCuxport GmbH Bremerhaven
Hamburg
Neufelder Schanze 4 27472 Cuxhaven
el: +49 (0)4721 748-0 · Fax: +49 (0)4721 748-122 · info@cuxport.de · www.cuxport.de
Germany T +49 (0)47 21 74 81 26 F +49 (0)47 21 74 81 99 E info@cuxport.de I www.cuxport.de Contact: Roland Schneider Business Development
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The German port of Cuxhaven epitomises the combination of a production site and an installation, service and maintenance port for the offshore business. Various skills required to set up and expand or maintain wind farms out at sea and generate clean energy are available at the offshore base port in the German state of Lower Saxony. Port logistics company with a wide range of services for the wind power sector The wind power sector can make full use of the expertise and capacity at the Cuxport multi-purpose terminal when seeking logistical support for these projects. The port logistics company has increasingly geared itself to meet the differing demands of this young market sector since 2007. Many customers are already using the services at Cuxport – in
Able to handle heavy loads As wind turbines are continually becoming larger, Cuxport has to move enormous weights if tower sections or foundation structures are to be transported. The company not only has a roadway capable of handling heavy loads, which runs from the manufacturers’ production sites to Cuxport, but also a heavy-duty platform for transhipment purposes.
provider offers the necessary flexibility and the relevant transhipment equipment both for services in the installation field and when providing supplies for production processes. The trend towards larger wind turbines and the use of modern installation vessels from the edge of the quay have not only triggered a reassessment of whether to complete assembly processes out at sea or on dry land, but also induced manufacturers of tower sections or foundational structures, which used to mainly produce their goods at hinterland destinations, to operate their factories very close to the sea.
Flexible Cuxport can point to many years of experience in the project business – not least based on its original design as a heavy goods terminal. The port logistics
Cuxport is repeatedly able to introduce its existing logistics expertise in projects, which accompany the offshore wind power industry in all its varied facets. For example, Cuxport organises the
particular the terminal’s ability to handle very heavy loads and the extremely strong RoRo ramps at the deep-water berths.