The harbour system of Bremen-Bremerhaven will close the 2011 with a traffic record of about 81,3 million tons of goods



In entire the 2011 harbour system of Bremen-Bremerhaven it has enlivened a traffic of about 81,3 million tons of goods, of which 67,3 million to Bremerhaven and 13 million to Bremen, with an increment of 18% regarding almost 68,9 million tons of goods enlivened in 2010. The senator to the Economy, the job and the port of Bremen, Martin Günthner has announced, emphasizing that "with this optimal result our ports have reached a new historical record of volume. The effects of the total economic crisis of 2009 - it has added - are therefore behind". The precedence record traffic anniversary was established by the port of Bremen-Bremerhaven in 2008 with the 74,5 million one tons, volume that in 2011 is exceeded of 9%.

This year the traffic of the bulk has been next to 9,9 million tons regarding 9,2 million tons in 2010. In the field of the container tons for a traffic are enlivened 62,6 million have been pairs to about 5,9 million teu, with a advanced progression to 20% on last year. In the section of the motor vehicles, in the 2011 two million car are enlivened about, with an increase of mainly determined 30% about - it has specified Günthner - from the important increase of the sales of German cars abroad. The traffic of the goods conventional has been attested to about 8,8 million tons, with an increment of 14% approximately.

The traffic of the cruises instead is diminished. Last year to the terminal cruises of Bremerhaven 42 ships for a traffic of about 51.000 fleeting are landed respect to beyond 57.000 in 2010.

Günthner has found as the traffic goods record suggests that they must be carried out investments for an ulterior future development of the harbour system: "efficient ways of connection - it has explained - are the foundation for the continuous increase of our ports and therefore for an increase of the places of work". Günthner has remembered that, as specified from a study of the ISL (Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft a Logistik) based on data of 2010, the harbour system of Bremen-Bremerhaven altogether gives job to 74.000 people, of which 57.000 places of job direct and 17,000 indirect ones.

The senator has confirmed that the Land of Bremen will be engaged to eliminate any throttling in the connections with the harbour system and has evidenced that the construction and maintenance of the street and railway ways of access to the ports remains a task of vital importance for the federal government and the railway group Deutsche Bahn.

At last Günthner has announced that next 1° January to Bremen will be introduced an environmental member in the harbour taxes that will be tied to the Environmental Ship Index (ESI), the index on the polluting emissions of the ships defined from the nordeuropei ports of Amburgo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen, the Havre and Rotterdam.