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rameters, e.g. wind and tide restrictions, or the number of tugs required for manoeuvring on berthing and sai- ling. Business in the Port of Hamburg anticipates com- pletion of fairway adjustment during summer 2021.
PRECISE SCHEDULE PLANNING IS ESSENTIAL
Since 2015 the Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center – HVCC has ensured optimized passage planning for mega-ships in the ULV bracket. These include bulk carriers and cruise ships in addition to containerships. Set up by terminal operators EUROGATE and HHLA, Nautical Terminal Coordination – NTC provides opera- tional coordination between terminals for mega-ship clearance. The FLZ, or Feeder Logistics Center, looks after rotation planning, approach control and stowage planning for feederships and inland waterway craft in the Port of Hamburg. Through the HVCC data plat- form, all partner shipowners receive inbound passage plans commencing at a ship’s arrival in a previous port, e.g. Southampton. Precise schedule planning enables the ship’s speed to be optimally determined for the Elbe passage and arrival at the terminal in Hamburg. For instance, reduction of a vessel’s speed for the 200-nautical mile Rotterdam – Hamburg pas- sage from 18 to 14 knots produces a 22-ton saving in bunkers and a 66-ton reduction in CO2 emissions. Da- ta provided by HVCC also includes outbound-passage
plans for optimized transit from Hamburg to the next ports. In 2017 HVCC already assisted more than 3000 ships prior to arrival in and departure from the Port of Hamburg. Other ports, Hamburg terminals and ship- ping companies that cooperate are all involved in such coordination.
MORE CARGO FOR CONTAINERSHIPS
Ingo Egloff and Axel Mattern, Joint CEOs of Port of Hamburg Marketing, welcome the willingness of all the institutions and companies participating in traffic control to expand data and information exchange with one another further. “It is vital that fairway adjust- ment should now be rapidly implemented and quickly lead next year to meaningful simplification of access to the Port of Hamburg for shipping and port custo- mers,” says Mattern. Once implemented, deepening by around one metre will also be a major gain for the port, enabling containerships in future to bring around 1,800 TEU more cargo to Hamburg and/or sail with the same increased volume. “Our port customers throughout the world are eagerly waiting for this,” adds Egloff, his Executive Board colleague. For these two port experts, the long awaited start on fairway adjustment is creating a positive upward swing in the mood among their port customers in Germany and in- ternationally. ■
FUTURE PORT ■
Upgrading navigable channel:
Deepening to 13.5 m
Tide-free
Widening from 300 m to 320 m
Passing box:
Deepening to 13.5 m
Tide-free
Widening from 250-300 m up to 385 m
Structures:
New transit lights
Upgrading navigable channel:
Deepening to 13.5 m
Tide-free
Widening from 250 m to 270 m
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