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The Port of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Havn) is the largest
Danish
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark
People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
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* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
seaport
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...
and one of the largest ports in the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
basin. It extends from
Svanemølle Beach in the north to
Hvidovre
Hvidovre is the main town in Hvidovre Municipality, Denmark. The town, a suburb of Copenhagen, is about 10 km southwest of the capital's center. It is the 2nd biggest suburb of Copenhagen, only beaten by Frederiksberg.
History
Hvidovre has ...
in the south. Along with
Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
harbour, Copenhagen Port is operated by
Copenhagen Malmö Port
Copenhagen Malmö Port AB (CMP) operates the ports in Denmark's capital Copenhagen and in Sweden's third largest city, Malmö. The ports are located either side of Øresund, a strait between the two countries. The combined Øresund Region is the ...
(CMP) and
By & Havn
By & Havn (English: ''City & Port'') or ''Udviklingsselskabet By & Havn I/S'' (en.: ''The corporation for development of City and Port I/S'') is an organisation, tasked with the development of Ørestad and the port of Copenhagen and the daily ope ...
.
The port is divided into several different areas, many of which are individual harbours:
There has been rapid development along the seafront; large parts of the formerly industrial inner harbor have recently been transformed into residential, recreative, and commercial areas. The port has seen a dramatic resurgence in activity since the 1990s, following a long period of decline following the 1940s.
History
The Port of Copenhagen dates back to the
Middle Ages
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. The port was originally owned by the
Danish Royal Family
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.
Christian IV
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moved Naval Shipyard from
Gammelholm
Gammelholm ( lit. "Old Islet") is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in the city centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is bounded by the Nyhavn canal, Kongens Nytorv, Holmens Kanal, Niels Juels Gade and the waterfront along Havnegade. For cen ...
to its current location in
Holmen—the
Holmen Naval Base
Naval Station Holmen ( da, Flådestation Holmen) is one of several naval stations of the Royal Danish Navy, supplementing the two Danish naval bases in Frederikshavn and Korsør.
Founded in the late 17th century, it is also a visitor attracti ...
one of several naval stations of the
Royal Danish Navy
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. In 1742 the port was turned into an independent institution and remained unchange until 1812, when a central administration was set up, called "Ports and Mudringsvæsenet".
Port Captains
*1860-1872
Janus August Garde
Janus August Garde (1823 – 1893) was Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 25 September 1872 to 23 March 1881. He had a break in service from 5 January 1876 to 16 September 1876, when he went back to Denmark to gather knowledge on th ...
*1872-1895
FVW Lüders
*1896-1914
Christian Frederik Drechsel
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*1917-1945
Thorvald Borg
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Thorvald may refer to:
* Thorv ...
*1945-1955
Mogens Blach
Mogens is a Danish masculine given name (specifically Danish shake-up of Magnus), and may refer to:
*Mogens Ballin, Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven
* Mogens Berg (born 1944), Danish former ...
*1982-1997
Erik Schaefer
*1997-2005
Henning Hummelmose
*2005-2007
Karl-Gustav Jensen
In 2007, administration of the port passed to
By & Havn
By & Havn (English: ''City & Port'') or ''Udviklingsselskabet By & Havn I/S'' (en.: ''The corporation for development of City and Port I/S'') is an organisation, tasked with the development of Ørestad and the port of Copenhagen and the daily ope ...
.
Terminals
*Container terminal: The terminal was opened in 2001 and has a storage area of 175,000 m
2.
*RoRo terminal: The
RoRo
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, Trailer (vehicle), trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their o ...
terminal has four
berths an m
2
*Automobile terminal: The
cars terminal is the largest in
Northern Europe
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used for imports of new cars and can accommodate 40,000 cars at once.
*General cargo: The
general cargo terminal has 10 berths and a storage area of 200,000 m
2.
*Liquid bulk terminal: The
liquid bulk terminal has an annual traffic of five million tonnes, a storage area of 834,000 m
2 and a storage capacity of one million m
3.
*Dry bulk terminal: The
dry bulk terminal has an annual traffic of five million tonnes, a storage area of 834,000 m
2 and has storage capacities for
coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when dea ...
,
stone
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,
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of s ...
,
gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally throughout the world as a result of sedimentary and erosive geologic processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone.
Gravel is classifi ...
,
plaster
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,
scrap
Scrap consists of Recycling, recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap Waste valorization, has monetary ...
,
cement
A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel ( aggregate) together. Cement mix ...
,
biofuel
Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...
,
salt
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
,
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
and earth.
*Passenger terminal: The Port of Copenhagen has one of the largest
passenger terminals in the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
basin which handled 1.6 million
passengers
A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The ...
in 2007.
References
External links
Snapshot from an Airplane: The Harbor of Copenhagen, 1913by
Holger Damgaard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Copenhagen
Ports and harbours of Denmark