Big investment continues as Rostock grows
The ferry landing stage at Berth 54 will be completed in the spring. Photo: Rostock Port/Nordlicht
Port development company Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock invested more than €55m in the infrastructure of the seaport last year.
Some €15m alone went for building the northern extension of Pier III. The embankment was already built in 2010 and the land filling with 1.68m m3 of gravel from the Baltic Sea was completed in spring 2011. Construction work will be finalized till the spring of this year and the new Berth 15 on the eastern side of Pier III will be completed at the same time.
Further large building projects in 2011 were the continuation and reconditioning of the service jetty at Berths 3 and 4 in the oil port and the reconditioning of Berth 5, which continues in 2012, for a total of some €2m.
From the start of the cruise liner season in April 2012 it will be possible to collect and treat waste water from ships at the three cruise liner berths in Warnemünde, in cooperation with the company Eurawasser. For this, Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock has invested €1.7m in the necessary facilities at the passenger quay.
In the spring of 2011 the port development company began the complex project of re-arranging the entire ferry terminal. The project started with the new construction of the ferry landing stage at berth 54. By stages, the new ferry center, the new roofed clearance line and additional areas with optimized traffic routing were built. The conversion of the ferry terminal was accompanied by demolition and replacement measures. In the course of these the old clearance buildings as well as quay shed 8 on Pier I were pulled down and replaced. Around €25m was spent on this alone in 2011.
“Rostock seaport has not seen such a multitude of complex, large building sites since the port was built more than 50 years ago. This would be unthinkable without the support from the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, said Ulrich Bauermeister, MD of Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH. 'We are entering the new year with the same pace. For 2012 we again plan on a capex volume of around €50m. Of this, about €21m are earmarked for the further upgrading of the ferry and ro-ro terminal and for the intermodal transport handling facility. The ferry landing stage at Berth 54 will be completed in the spring and the rearrangement of the entire ferry terminal, started in 2011, will also be completed then.”
Further large building projects this year are the construction and completion of the eastern road connection to the industrial area in the approaches to the port for around €2.5m, the construction of logistics areas at Berth 25 (4,500 m2) at the grain silos on Pier IV (6,500 m2) as well as the reconditioning of a 1.2 km section of Ost-West-Strasse.
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