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2010 and 2030. Inland waterway shipping’s share of
metres up into the basin above. With a lock filled
INFRASTRUCTURE PORT ■
the modal split is to be boosted to twelve percent over the same period. Yet that will require not only more modern vessels, but also upgraded infrastruc- ture. This includes the new Luneburg Lock for which the Federal government has already allocated 330 million euros. This should go into service at the start of the next decade. Construction is due to start in the mid-2020s.
The new lock has been designed as an water-saving lock. For basin sluicing, 80 percent of the water is shifted into tanks in the two chamber walls arranged like building storeys. When it rises again, at first the water runs of out of the tanks into the basin. Only 20 percent of this then needs to be pumped over 38
with 110,000 cubic metres, energy costs for the pumps can be saved.
CUTTING-EDGE CONSTRUCTION
With increased demands on shipping, this lock will eliminate a bottleneck. Its size enables individual barges, i.e. traditional inland waterway craft, 135 me- tres long, and pusher trains of 185 metres, to sur- mount the height difference of 38 metres. According to the WSV, this ensures that building a replacement lock on the Elbe Lateral Canal will also satisfy ship- ping’s future requirements and tie the seaboard re- gion that is of such economic importance for sea- ports to the Port of Hamburg. ■ (jh)
meters of
height difference that the new lock will overcome
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