Port of Bonn
The Port of Bonn is a small river port on the Rhine in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Location
The port is located in the north of Bonn on the Middle Rhine at Rhine kilometre 658 on the left bank and is surrounded by the Bonn district of Graurheindorf. One kilometre to the north, the Sieg flows into the Rhine, marking the end of the Middle Rhine.
History
In 1907, August Am Zehnhoff founded a commercial shipyard at the site of today's Beethovenhalle. In 1924, the company moved to Graurheindorf, its current location. During the Second World War, large parts of the port were destroyed. Subsequently, the Am Zehnhoff-Söns company rebuilt and expanded the port. In 2004, the company founded Bonner Hafenbetriebe GmbH together with Stadtwerke Bonn and took over the operational business.
Until 1994, the tram line to Graurheindorf ended at a turning loop at Bonn harbour, which was then extended to Auerberg with the removal of the section running through Werftstraße.
Economic significance
With an area of 65,000 square metres, the inland port is one of the smaller ports along the Rhine. It is operated by Bonner Hafenbetriebe GmbH, a joint venture between Am Zehnhoff-Söns GmbH and Stadtwerke Bonn GmbH. In 2011, the port handled approximately 795,000 tonnes of cargo. Around 100 containers are loaded and unloaded every day.
Facilities
IT-supported container gantry cranes, multifunctional cranes and IT-linked space management are used to manage around 50 arrivals and departures per week. In addition to containers, bulk goods, general cargo and project cargo can also be handled.
Between 2008 and 2012, the port was expanded and reinforced at a cost of around €16 million. One of the most important investments was a new container gantry crane with a 122-metre-long and 43-metre-high bridge girder, which has a load capacity of 65 tonnes and a total weight of 600 tonnes.
Passenger ships continue to use the old landing stage at the Beethovenhalle as a mooring point. For recreational boating, there are separate jetties for small vessels 3.5 km downstream.
Transport
The A 565 motorway runs just 300 metres south of the port area and can be accessed via the Bonn-Auerberg junction, which is about one kilometre away. Since 1924, the port has been connected to the rail network via a three-kilometre-long narrow-gauge railway to the Buschdorf station on the Rhine Bank Railway. However, the line was closed in 1974. There is a public transport connection at the ‘old’ landing stage near the Kennedy Bridge. From there, it is only a few steps to Moses-Hess-Ufer, the landing stage used by passenger ships.
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