The shipping platform

Location: The Port of Duisburg lies at the junction of the Ruhr and Rhine rivers about 190 kilometers from the North Sea in western Germany just 37 kilometers east of the country's border with The Netherlands. About 160 kilometers southeast of the Port of Amsterdam and 16 kilometers north of Germany's Port of Dusseldorf. General overview: The port of Duisburg consists of a number of docks and cargo handling areas situated between Km 771 and Km 781 stages on the Rhine. These are made up of private wharves and extensive public dock areas belonging to Duisburg, Ruhrort, Hochfeld and Rheinhausen. Overall, they make up the largest inland intermodal port in Europe and between them contain 21 harbour basins with a quay length of 40km. Duisburg is the focal point of an intricate system of waterborne, rail and road traffic serving the Westphalian industrial area and beyond, and a collecting centre for general and bulk freight. Duisburg has a control type II free zone with an area of 100,000m². The Port of Duisburg contains ample and varied port facilities. The port has six container terminals with 14 gantry cranes with capacity for up to 55 tons. Two of the terminals are equipped with 700 meters of parallel tracks for simultaneous loading/unloading to and from trains. The Port of Duisburg contains nine covered ship loading/unloading facilities. It has a coal blending and loading facility and five coal unloading terminals. The Port of Duisburg has six steel service centers that process steel products and two roll-on/roll-off facilities. The port contains 150 hectares of storage areas, including 60 hectares of warehouse area for logistics services that include the Logport site. Storage facilities include about 600 thousand cubic meters of tankage, 19 liquid cargo transfer facilities, and 130 cranes with capacity for 50 tons and a heavy- and oversized cargo transfer facility equipped with a 300-ton stationary crane and a 110-ton mobile crane. The Port of Duisburg operates three logistics centers: Logport, Logistikpark Kasslerfeld, and Logistikzentrum Ruhrort. The Port of Duisburg offers three modern tri-modal container terminals and one rail/road terminal to provide all the services that container transporters will need. At the same time, the Port of Duisburg is an important center for the movement of conventional non-container cargoes like steel products and paper. Many of the operators in the Port of Duisburg specialize in general cargo services. The Port of Duisburg is also capable of handling heavy cargoes as much as 300 tons. ● Bulk facilities - Five coal terminals with car dumpers and ship loaders, daily capacity up to 26,000 tonnes and one scrap metal terminal. Conveyor belts and discharging plants available. ● Container facilities - There are four container terminals: DIT DUISBURG INTERMODAL TERMINAL GMBH, DUSS-TERMINAL, RHEIN-RUHR TERMINAL DUISBURG, De Ce Te Container Terminal. Two Ro-Ro facilities. ● Tanker facilities: Free Port Duisburg: The first inland Free Port for storage and treatment of high-grade export goods. 19 terminals. The following cargoes are handled: Mineral oils, iron, steel, non ferrous metals, mineral raw materials, chemical products and scrap. Export goods include Rhur coal, iron and steel products, chemicals and industrial products. Traffic figures: Approx 20,000 vessels, 50,000,000 tonnes of cargo, including 1,820,000 TEUs are handled annually. Load line zone: North Atlantic Winter Seasonal Zone II, Winter Nov 1 to Mar 31, Summer Apr 1 to Oct 31. Max size: LOA: 135 m, beam: 17 m, draught: approx 5.0 m, 5,500-6,000 DWT. There are max dimensions for combinations for entry, departure and navigation of Ruhrort port, Ruhrort Hafencanal, Duisburg parallelhafen and Vinckekanal. The max lengths vary between 110 - 270 m and beam 11.4 - 34.2 m. Other ports have max combination length of 110 m, beam 11.4 m (greater if twin propellers or operational bow thruster fitted). The largest vessel called at the port: LOA: 290 m, draught: 7.4 m, deadweight: 6,500 t.