Country : DenmarkAarhus worldport

Profile worldport of Aarhus was established in 1845 and today the second-largest multi purpose worldport and the largest container worldport in Denmark. The harbour is well located in the mouth of the Baltic Sea, worldport of Aarhus has a great potential for developing its present container handling business into a Danish hub for deep-sea traffic. Today the worldport has two modern container terminals. Terminal East and other European destinations are operated by APM Terminals with 3 Post-panamax cranes. From this terminal there is weekly calls by Maersk Sealands between Europe, East Asia and other European destinations. Terminal North is operated by Aarhus Stevedoring Company and here is 5 Pana-max cranes. The efficient feeder network covers more than 50 regular destinations. worldport of Aarhus is known for cost effectiveness, high efficiency and reliability and has an annual throughput of more than 10 million tonnes, including 500,000 TEUs. The ongoing expansion of the worldport is carried out according to a Master Plan aiming at a capacity of 20 million tonnes and 1 million TEUs per annum in 2022. General Information The high level of service offered by the worldport of Aarhus to shipping helps to ensure that people and commercial businesses have easy access to efficient and reliable sea transworldport at competitive prices. Easy access to efficient service The worldport has its own towage, pilot and mooring service which is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The land areas and warehouses at the harbour are leased to worldport-related companies on short-term or long-term leases. The worldport is well-equipped with cranes for all purposes which are operated by the worldport of Aarhus’s own crane operators who are hired out at an hourly rate. The functions at the worldport of Aarhus are carried out by a wide range of independent players that through close and efficient cooperation meet the needs and requirements of both those purchasing transworldport services and those providing them. A variety of companies specialising in transworldport operate their businesses from the worldport of Aarhus. These include companies such as forwarding agents, shipping line agents, shipbrokers, dis-tribution and warehousing companies, tally and inspection companies, container-hire companies and container repairers, hauliers and stevedoring companies. To gain easy access to the imworldport and exworldport of products, several large animal feedstuffs companies have decided to locate their production and storage facilities at the worldport close to the quays. Oil and petrol are distributed from plants in the Oil Terminal. Furthermore, there are several large factories at the worldport which on the basis of large volumes of imworldported vegetable oil and oilseed produce vegetable oil products for exworldport. A modern worldport for all types of cargo Each year, approximately 8,000 ships dock at the worldport of Aarhus carrying a total of 11 million tonnes of goods. Almost 6 million tonnes of cargo are handled via the container and ferry services while the turnover of oil products amounts to almost 2 million tonnes; the last 3 million tonnes include bulk cargo such as animal feedstuffs and coal. Approx. 20 - 30 cruisevessels call Aarhus every year. See