The shipping platform

Location: The port of Rostock is situated in the W of the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the River Warnow, 80km E of Lubeck. General overview: Rostock is the principal port of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The port incorporates: 1. Seehafen Rostock (Uberseehafen, Overseas port) including Oil Harbour. 2. The Rostocker Fischereihafen (RFH Fishery Port). 3. The Stadthafen (Old City Port). 4. Warnemunde Passenger Quays (Cruise Liner Terminal). 5. Metallaufbereitung Rostock (MAB). 6. YARA Rostock (Chemical Harbour). 7. Muesing Kai 8. Maritimes Gewerbegebiet Gross Klein (MAGEB) 9. Yachthafen Hohe Duene ajor cargoes passing through the Port of Rostock include general, project, and heavy cargo, steel products and scrap, forest products, sugar, coal and ores, building materials, wood chips, peat, grain and oilseeds, fertilizers, paper, and liquid cargoes. A joint venture between SHRU and Grosstaklager-Olhafen operates facilities for oil and fuels. With total capacity for 700 thousand cubic meters of mineral oils, vegetable oils, and other liquid cargoes, the oil port offers six berths that can accommodate ships to 100 thousand DWT. Its berths and tanks are connected by pipeline to refineries, and the facilities have railway connections. In addition to mineral and vegetable oils, the facilities handle naphtha, biodiesel, bioethanol, methanol, pyrolytic petrol, and liquid fertilizers. Berths range from 140 meters to 295 meters in length with alongside depth from 5.3 to 13 meters. Services for grain cargoes are provided by Getreide Service Rostock GmbH (GSR). GSR’s four berths handle grains, fertilizers, oilseeds, malt and building materials, and its ship loader has capacity to handle 1000 tons per hour. At dock silos can handle 85 thousand tons of grains, and GSR has external grain silos for 360 thousand tons and open storage of 32 square meters. The fertilizer quay has capacity for storage of 60 thousand tons. Berths range from 215 to 300 meters in length with alongside depth from 10.4 to 13 meters. Berth 12 is 360 meters long with alongside depth of 10.4 meters. It has a conveyer belt system from ship to storage, and it has two covered stores, each with capacity for 30 thousand tons. Bulk Terminal Rostock GmbH (BTR) handles one million tons of hard coal every year. In addition, its three berths handle complex ores, fertilizers, building materials, peat, alternate fuels, peat, and other dry bulk. A dedicated coal store with 300 thousand tons capacity serves the nearby coal power station. The berths range from 240 to 320 meters in length with alongside depth of from 10.1 meters to 13 meters. The facilities include storage with reach of the cranes for 20 thousand meters of cargo. The Hansa Quay includes 13 berths that handle general cargo, heavy lift cargo, and bulk cargoes. The Port of Rostock’s General Cargo Terminal GmbH (GCT) handles over one million tons each year that includes steel products, plaster boards, project cargo, nonferrous metals, bags, scrap, cement, and other heavy cargoes. The facilities at Hansa Quay include three warehouses of 63 thousand square meters and open storage of 105 thousand square meters. All quays and stores have connections for rail, road, and water routes. The General Cargo Terminal’s 13 berths have total length of 2680 meters with alongside depth from 9.5 to 10.6 meters. Papier-Lager-und Umschlaggesellschaft mbH (PLU) handles paper, ferry, and roll-on/roll-off cargo on Pier I. PLU offers three storehouses covering 30 thousand square meters, particularly for roll-on/roll-off and paper storage. The facility handles about 500 thousand tons of paper from paper mills in Scandanavia and northern Europe. This state-of-the-art facility includes four berths of a total 715 meters in length and alongside depth from 8 to 10.4 meters and six berths for ferries with total length of 1450 meters and alongside depth from 8.1 to 9.5 meters. Storage facilities include 200 thousand square meters for ferry services, three roll-on/roll-off paper sheds, one paper shed covering 35 thousand square meters, and open storage areas of 40 thousand square meters. Traffic figures: Approx 8,900 vessels, 23,700,000t of cargo and 2,010,000 passengers are handled annually. Load line zone: Summer Zone for ships over 100m in length and Winter Seasonal Area for ships of 100m or less in length, Winter Nov 1 to Mar 31, Summer Apr 1 to Oct 31. Max size: Max LOA: 295 m, beam: 45 m, draught: 13.0 m. Vessels exceeding LOA 230 m and/or beam 36 m and/or draught 12.0 m are requested to obtain permission from the Waterway and Shipping Board. Vessels bound for Fracht-und-Fischereihafen exceeding LOA 125 m and/or beam 17.5 m and/or draught 7.5 m are also requested to obtain permission from the Waterway and Shipping Board.