Mannheim Harbour, named ''Rhein-Neckar-Hafen Mannheim'', is a river port on the

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Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

, at the confluence of the Rhine and the

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in Baden-Wurttemberg. It consists out of 4 main harbour areas ''Handelshafen'', ''Rheinauhafen'', ''Altrheinhafen'' and ''Industriehafen'', which are divided into 14 single harbour basins and 3 river docks. It is one of the most important inland ports in

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. The port covers 3.42 km² of water (2.83 km² Rhine, 0.59 km² Neckar) and 8.635 km² of dockland. The total land area covered from the harbour is about 11.31 km², making it the biggest inland port in

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based on this measure. The ''Rhein-Neckar-Hafen Mannheim'' reflects a trimodal transport node at the junction of road and rail inks and two national waterways and offers various transhipment facilities. The 4 main harbour areas have overnight rail connections to all German and many important European commercial centres and it can be accessed by road via several main motorways.

History

Freight exchange

Infrastructure

The port includes 226 hectares of outside storage and handling area and 119 hectares of roofed storage area. It also provides 1,527 storage silos and bunkers for grain, coal, gravel, cement, fruit, feed and other bulk goods with a total capacity of over 385,000 tonnes and for liquid based products like mineral and edible oils, 1,078 tanks with a total capacity of almost 1.5 million tonnes are available. Furthermore, the port provides: * 78 loading and crane gantries (24 on the quayside) * 37 portal cranes (25 on the quayside) * 14 heavy duty cranes up to 150 tonnes (10 on the quayside) * 4 special transhipment systems for containers * 52 mobile cranes * 210 other lifting systems * 24 marine loaders

Today

About 500 enterprises with more than 20,000 jobs are established on the dockland and service providers in the wider area around the port. The port management company has announced in December 2017 that the port will generate new records mostly in all segments which are operated.

References

harbour A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...

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