Port of Vienna

Port of Vienna

Port of Vienna pier
Location
Country Austria
Location Vienna
Details
Owned by Wiener Hafen Management GmbH
Type of harbor Natural/Artificial
Size 350 acres (3.5 square kilometres)
Employees 241[1] (2007)
General manager Michael Hefelle
Statistics
Vessel arrivals 4,371 vessels (2007)[2]
Annual cargo tonnage 12 milliontonnes (2007)[3]
Annual container volume 323,000 TEU (2007)[4]
Passenger traffic 305,000 people[5] (2007)
Annual revenue 45 million Euro[6]
Website
http://www.wienerhafen.com (German)

The Port of Vienna is the largest Austrian river port and one of the largest ports on the Danube River, with a total annual traffic capacity of around 12 million tonnes of cargo.

Statistics

In 2007 the Port of Vienna handled 12,000,000 tonnes of cargo and 323,000 TEU's making it the busiest cargo and container port in Austria and one of the largest in Central Europe.

General statistics in 2007 [7]
Year 2007
Containers TEU's 323,000
Automobiles (new units) 72,000
Passengers (nr) 305,000
Total*' 12
* figures in millions of tonnes

Terminals

Container terminal

The terminal was opened in 2000 and has a storage area of 60,000 m2.[8]

Automobile terminal

The cars terminal is one of the largest in Central Europe used for imports of new cars and can accommodate 10,000 cars at once on a 160,000m2 plot of land.[9]

General cargo

The general cargo terminal has a storage area of 270,000 m2.[10]

Passenger terminal

The Port of Vienna has one of the largest passenger terminals on the Danube River; it handled 305,000 passengers in 2007.[11]

References

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