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36 | Port of Hamburg Magazine | March 2019
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An eye-catching ship
in the Port of Hamburg
By the way ...
At the end of last year I was there for the maiden call of ONE COLUMBA in the Port of Hamburg – a very colourful affair. This ‘Lady in Pink’ belongs to the Ocean Network Express (ONE) shipping group. Not simply due to her brilliant magenta hue, she’s a hit. With a slot capacity of 14,000 TEU, a breadth of 51 metres and a length of 364 metres, you can call her an ULCV or ultra-large container vessel. For ladies of her size, fairway adjustment of the Lower and Outer Elbe makes a lot of sense. This striking container carrier plies on the FE5 service, calling ports in Vietnam, Singapore & Sri Lanka as well as Rot- terdam and Hamburg. As usual during a maiden call, a Port of Hamburg plaque was presented to the captain of the ONE COLUMBA.
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Starting signal for Lower Elbe fairway adjustment
Building an underwater dredged material disposal site – UDMDS at Brokdorf marks the start of work on fairway adjustment of the Low- er Elbe. As a preparatory measure, the edges of this have been built. So there’s already a park to hold dredged sediment produced by fair- way adjustment. A stone embankment is being built to surround a de-
posit area covering roughly 24 hectares, or 34 football pitches.
The Brokdorf site is one of six UDMDSs that all form part of what is known as an integrated hydraulic construction scheme. These will help to reduce the repercussions of fairway adjustment on water levels and currents in the Elbe. Contracts have also been placed for works on sim-
ilar underwater UDMDSs at Medemrinne and Neufelder Sand.
Lying west of Brunsbüttel, Neufelder Sand is some 6,700 metres long and serves mainly to channel the river. Around 9.5 million cubic metres of
material dredged during widening and deepening will be deposited there later.
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