JWP takes shape as logistics tenders invited

Port authorities have also invited tenders from potential operators for the logistics and service concessions up for grabs on the future new 160 hectare Logistics Zone behind the container terminal itself.

As of mid-September JWP said 33.6m of the 48m cu/m of sand for the site had been brought in by dredgers from sites in the Jade River. It also said about 800,000 boulders from Norway and about 110,000 tons of stone had been delivered for diverse construction works.

Four pile driving units were still busy on the main, north and south quays with several thousand piles already driven. Concreting began in September, using a giant Norwegian unit producing 80 cu/m an hour.

The first 1,000m of the site’s 1,725m main quay are due for completion by late 2011. Four big ships will be handled simultaneously by 16 container cranes with a hoped for 2.7m TEUs from 2012. The JWP terminal is Germany’s answer to rival Rhine estuary ports in the race for future mega container ships.

Building it is a consortium led by the Johann Bunte Bauunternehmung in Papenburg which includes Josef Möbius Bau-Aktiengesellschaft in Hamburg, Heinrich Hecker in Oldenburg and Ludwig Voß in Cuxhaven. Responsible for road construction is Eurovia Teerbau in Oldenburg along with Jeschke Kultur- und Tiefbau in Blomberg and Fritz Spieker Bauunternehmung in Oldenburg. Building the rail structures are Jelabau in Bremen, with Siemer + Müller in Wilhelmshaven and J. Tiessler Hoch u. Tiefbau in Elsfleth.

Elsewhere, work expected to cost €100m has begun on the 11 km rail link between the future JWP and the German rail network. Deutsche Bahn and the Berlin Government have promised to have a two track link complete by the time the JWP is in full operation in 2012 with electrification by 2014.

By Tom Todd