Since the first ship called at the working harbor at the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn in July 2022, more than one million tons of goods have been landed in the port, writes Femern A/S on LinkedIn. This makes FLC’s working port the 21st largest port in Denmark in terms of cargo traffic and by far the largest in Lolland-Falster. Thus, the port moves up in the statistical super league, which includes “larger Danish ports”. In order to be included in that company, the port must have a total tonnage of over one million tonnes per year.
Bigger than the port in Nakskov Nakskov Port just didn’t reach the magic number in 2022. However, with 932,000 tonnes, it came close. And in Nakskov, it was also the Fehmarn project that got the tonnage up quite a bit. Before FLC’s working harbor opened, material and raw materials to be used on the construction site were sailed to Nakskov and transported on from there to Rødbyhavn on trucks.
Corresponds to three trucks per hour If a million tons of goods are to be transported on trucks, a truck loaded with 40 tons must be driven in the neighborhood of 25,000 times. This corresponds to just under three trucks per hour – all year round and around the clock. So the working port saves the roads on Lolland-Falster from not so little strain, just as the CO2 account is also somewhat nicer for ship than lorry traffic.
Blue Water Shipping has only just started The Danish shipping giant Blue Water Shipping is the port operator at the working port owned by FLC. Blue Water Shipping estimates that when activity at the working port peaks, around 70,000 tons of cargo will arrive at the quays in Rødbyhavn per week. This corresponds to well over 3.5 million tonnes in a year, and it will make the port at the element factory Denmark’s sixth largest cargo port – ahead of Odense and just after Esbjerg.
– We have only just started, and our quays and facilities are not quite finished yet. I expect that we will be fully up and running within the next six months. By that time, we will have between 10 – 12 ships calling at the port per week, says Troels Nyerup from Blue Water Shipping, who is the harbor master at the working port in Rødbyhavn.
Troels Nyerup from Blue Water Shipping is harbor master at the working harbor in Rødbyhavn. When the port is fully developed in half a year’s time, he expects to receive 10-12 ships a week. Photo: Peter Walentin
The port is part of the element factory The working harbor is part of the element factory, whose future is for first reading in the Folketing next week. If the Parliament, as expected, decides that the element factory can be located when the Fehmarntunnel is completed, then the working harbor will be included as “part of the package”.
And that package can be very interesting, says Troels Nyerup:
– It’s location, location, location. The harbor is perfectly situated in relation to the entire Baltic Sea and close to the Kiel Canal. And then it is easy to sail into because there is no fjord or channel, says the harbor master.
