Investment

2005

Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft invested 18.5 million Euro in the infrastructure of the seaport. Nearly two-thirds of the money came from funding that Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft applied for from the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania. The co-financing for all development projects carried out in the seaport was and is supplied by Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft.

In addition to the normal repairs on berths and the road network on the port grounds, the infrastructure development projects carried out also included

• the construction of the Warnemünde Cruise Center (WCC), officially opened on May 1st. Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock worked together with regional construction companies built this impressive steel and glass building in only eight months. A total area of over 3,000 square meters allows for up to 2,500 passengers per day to be cleared.
• the expansion of the combined cargo terminal,
• the complete preparation of a 10-hectare area of the "Maritime Industrial Park II" for building,
• the new construction of berths 1 and 2 in the oil harbour,
• the extension of berth 13 on Pier III, a 380-meter-long and 50-meter-wide heavy load quay, and the beginning of the expansion of berth 60 at the Warnow quay.

2006

on 12 May the company Liebherr MCCtec Rostock GmbH celebrated the official opening of its new production facility at the Rostock seaport . The first expansion of the plant was also announced on that day. Liebherr build an additional boring and milling facility on a 16,000-m² site.

On 30 August the Power Oil Rostock GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Getreide AG, inaugurated an extraction facility for vegetable oils on a 53,000-square-meter site on Pier III. According to Power Oil Rostock, its mill, with a capacity of 1,600 tonnes of processed canola seed per day, is the largest oil mill in Germany. The investment costs totalled nearly 14 million Euros. The oil mill comprises the extraction facility, seed storage, seed processing plant, product storage and service department.

In autumn the Swiss company Biopetrol opened its biodiesel plant at the Rostock oil harbour. According to the company, the plant will produce 150,000 tonnes of biodiesel and 18,000 tonnes of glycerine per year.

Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock invested around 20 million Euros amongst others in the following infrastructure projects:

• 14 May 2006, just in time for this season’s first cruise ship arrival a second terminal building for cruise passengers is to be opened at berth P8 in the Warnemünde shipyard basin. The glass passenger terminal with a distinct tent-roof design has an area of around 600 square meters and was already used by Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock as a terminal building for cruise passengers from May 2002 to August 2004. It was dismantled and put into storage with the commencement of construction for the Warnemünde Cruise Center at berth P7, which was opened in May 2005.
• January to mid-August 2006: development of berth 60 on the Warnow quay into a Ro-Ro berth and removal of the old container bridges at this site

2007   

In June, Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock is bringing the expansion of the cross quay Berth 10 at the seaport to a close. The new berth is located along the south side of port basin C and is equipped to handle cargo up to five tonnes per square meter. The new quay facility is intended for cargo handling and is especially well suited for the handling of heavy and unwieldy cargo. Berth 10 is capable of accommodating ships with a length of up to 130 meters and a draft of approximately seven meters for the loading and unloading of cargo. This quay facility is equipped with crane rails and encompasses an area of around 5,000 square meters (190 m long, 26 m wide).

The construction of Berth 10 began in November 2006 and entailed costs of 2.5 million Euros.

On 29 June 2007 the official celebration of company EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH for the laying of the foundation stone at the facility is scheduled to take place on a site of 50,000 square meters south of Berth 10. Official opening of the plant is one year later, on 29 June 2008. 

The modernization of the track systems at the Rostock seaport to allow for increased capacity in cargo handling from ship to rail has been completed in December and the track systems are ready for use. The European Union, federal government and Deutsche Bahn AG invested a total of around 34 million Euros in the project to lay 38 km of tracks and renew 93 switches.

2008

The first section of the newly built berth P8 in the shipyard basin in Warnemünde was put into operation on 21 April 2008. The Ministry for Economic Affairs of Mecklenburg – Vorpommern funded the project in the amount of nearly seven million Euros. Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft contributed the co-financing amounting to over three million Euros.

In 2000,

Seehafen Rostock Verwaltungsgesllschaft allocated 10 million DM for the development of the ferry terminal and the putting into operation of berths 21 and 22.

In 2001,

Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft invested approx. 20 million Euros. The most significant projects were:

• Development of the Warnow Ferry Terminal comprising the conversion of the former break-bulk berths 50-53 resulting in a ferry terminal with a total area of 200,000 m².
• Double-deck landing for the Superfast ferry line Rostock - Hanko
• Construction of a stern-side ramp for the TT-Line ferries

• Construction of an access road from the ferry terminal to the main road/motorway

2002

The investments of Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft amounted to 18 million Euros in 2002. Of this amount, over 13 million Euros were allocated to the ferry and roll-on/roll-off terminal and the clearance facility for combined cargo.

In 2003,

Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft invested 30 million Euros for the development of port infrastructure. The largest portion of this investment, over 20 million Euros, was allocated to the development of Pier III North as a maritime industrial area. A site of 25 hectares will be the home of the Austrian company Liebherr from mid-2005 on where they will be producing mobile port cranes.

2004 
In March 2004, the company Baltic Lloyd opened a new distribution hall – the Baltic Sea Terminal. This hall with an area of 7,600 m² is specially equipped for the handling and storage of paper, ro-ro cargo and high-value break-bulk cargo.
 
In August of 2004, the company Rostocker Getreide- und Futtermittelhandel GmbH (RoGeFu) put a new grain loader with a capacity of up to 9,000 tonnes per day into operation at berth 13.
 

1995

In spring 1995, the new sugar terminal with its storage capacity of 50,000 tonnes began operations.

1996
Additional investment in increasing capacity in ferry traffic was made in 1996 with the concentration of all ferry lines to the Warnow Ferry Terminal. 80 million DM was invested in the development of this terminal.

1997

the development of the oil harbour took place including the construction of berth 06 for tankers with up to 90,000 tonnes deadweight capacity and tank storage with a capacity of 120,000 cubic meters.

1998 

Further investment of 20 million DM in the oil harbour occurred in 1998, focussing on the reconstruction of the discharging platform for tankers and the expansion of berth 03.

1999
Along with the extension of the sea channel with considerable investment by Seehafen Rostock Verwaltungsgesellschaft, the adaptation of the tanker and bulk carrier berths as well as the putting into operation of the quay facilities in the coal/ore harbour took place in 1999. 12 million DM was invested in the latter project alone. A total of 23 million DM was invested by Seehafen Rostock Verwaltungsgesellschaft in this year.

In the initial years after German reunification, the focus was on creating conditions to allow third parties access to the infrastructure and thereby strengthen the position of the Rostock seaport.

1992
In the following years, numerous investments changed the profile of the port. In spring of 1992, the company Alsen-Breitenburg (presently Holcim) began operating a new cement terminal. In the same year, the company WARICO (presently UPM Kymmene) built a 10,000 m² paper storage depot, allowing the import and distribution of several hundred thousand tonnes of Finnish forest products via Rostock.

1993
The largest project up to this time point was carried out by the French company Malteurop in 1993. A malt house capable of producing up to 120,000 tonnes of malt was built on a 30,000 m² - site.

A further milestone was the development of the 500 MW hard coal fired power plant, operated by the company Kraftwerks- und Netzgesellschaft mbH (KNG). It is supplied with 700,000 tonnes of coal annually via Rostock’s port.

1994

saw the greatest investment activity after the political change in Germany. The former Seehafen Rostock Verwaltungsgesellschaft (presently Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft) invested approx. 72 million DM – 60 million DM alone for the ferry landing at berths 64 and 66.

An additional 10 million DM were invested in the surfacing of storage areas on the Hansakai, where the company Metallaufbereitung Rostock GmbH built its new scrap terminal.