Brunsbüttel Ports reaches record margin
12.01.2012 4:06
Brunsbüttel Ports reaches record margin of 10 Mio Tons of goods handled in 2011 and heads for further expansion.
Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH, a Company of SCHRAMM group, has in 2011 continued its successful development. Due to the set-up as multipurpose port group for general cargo, bulk cargo and liquid goods in the three ports, handling figures exceeded more than 10 Mio Tons for the first time. Especially the amount of liquid goods in the Kiel Canal ports Ostermoor and Oilport has grown strongly compared to the years before. Universal port Elbehafen’s handling figures increased in some areas and stabilised in others.
Compared to the year before, the total amount handled within the port group of Brunsbüttel on all modes of transport increased by 9.4% to about 10.3 Mio Tons. Main increases were seen especially in the areas of dry and liquid bulk goods. Also gaining new customers played a major part with for example building materials for various use, road salt and pre-products for the chemical industry as well as technical constructions.
“Our focus as trimodal handling place for sea and inland vessels, as well for the regional industry within the largest complex industrial area of Schleswig-Holstein, as for transit traffic into our hinterland, is the guarantee for continuous positive growth of our port group”, says Frank Schnabel, managing director of Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH.
Next to the steady positive development of figures over the last years, also during the world wide economy crisis in 2009, especially the number of new customers and new business in the Elbehafen give Frank Schnabel an optimistic outlook in the future: “Over the last months we successfully gained new future business such as handling of refuse derived fuels, recycle-products and fertilizers but also handling of general cargo like for example large scale constructions including assembly work.
There is an important and fundamental focus on the logistical services for wind power stations onshore and offshore. In the Elbehafen wind power stations are handled continuously like recently for Enercon. In the medium term Brunsbüttel is to be extended to become an offshore basis port, so that also manufacturers of the wind power industry can settle within port distance.
Brunsbüttel Ports GmbH is well positioned for the future with further strategic projects:
In 2012 start of construction work is expected for extending the middle part of the Elbehafen. “We are just working on the submission for most of the building work”, tells Frank Schnabel. This two digit million Euro investment will safeguard and optimize the productive efficiency of the Elbehafen for the next decades.
