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Jade-Weser Port, Germany

Jade-Weser is the Germany’s only deepwater port, and allows ships with up to 16.5 metres draught to enter regardless of tide as the Jade channel fairway has a depth of eighteen metres. Constructing the port was the project of a century for Bremen and Lower Saxony.

  • In detail...
  • Area: around 360 ha
  • Length of all sheet piling: around 2,500 m
  • Total steel tonnage (without reinforcement): about 90,000 tonnes
  • Length of new embankment and dyke: about 3,100 m
  • Amount of sand required: about 43 million m³
Jade-Weser Port, Germany

Facts:

Owner: JadeWeserPort Realisierungs-GmbH & Co. KG
Customer: ARGE JadeWeserPort – Wasserbau
Construction time: 2005 – 2011
Construction cost: Around €1 billion
Sub contractor: Mibau Baustoffhandel GmbH
Delivery quantity: 835,000 tonnes
Purpose of use: Deepwater port