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Nav­i­ga­tion

Liv­ing Ro­s­tock

Seehafen, Breitling
See­hafen, Bre­itling | Foto: Thomas Ul­rich

Set­ting a new course

Fol­low­ing the end of the Cold War, the re­uni­fi­ca­tion of Ger­many, and the ex­pan­sion of the Eu­ro­pean Union, but also af­ter a dif­fi­cult struc­tural shift in the 1990s, Ro­s­tock be­gan re­gain­ing im­por­tance as a trad­ing and trans­ship­ment cen­tre in the south­ern Baltic Sea.

Its ge­o­graphic lo­ca­tion as well as its good road and rail ac­cess to the hin­ter­land saw Ro­s­tock be­come Ger­many’s lead­ing all-pur­pose Baltic Sea port af­ter 1989 in­creas­ing liq­uid, bulk, gen­eral, ferry and RoRo cargo ca­pac­ity as a largely new area of op­er­a­tion. An­other cor­ner­stone of mar­itime tourism has emerged since re­uni­fi­ca­tion – cruises. And the pas­sen­ger port of Warnemünde has been the most pop­u­lar des­ti­na­tion in Ger­many for in­ter­na­tional cruise pas­sen­gers for many years.

Ro­s­tock’s Übersee­hafen (over­sea port) is to­day an all-ser­vice trans­ship­ment port with a mod­ern oil ter­mi­nal, fa­cil­i­ties for han­dling bulk, and gen­eral cargo. But its pri­mary func­tion is that of a ferry port, with ad­join­ing ter­mi­nals for RoRo and com­bined cargo trans­porta­tion with freight-train con­nec­tions to South­ern and South­east­ern Eu­rope, as well as many met­ro­pol­i­tan ar­eas within Ger­many. Pro­duc­tion plants have also suc­cess­fully es­tab­lished them­selves here, fur­ther stim­u­lat­ing port op­er­a­tions. RO­S­TOCK PORT is cur­rently ded­i­cated to restor­ing port fa­cil­i­ties and de­vel­op­ing other ar­eas to en­able it to ex­pand its trans­ship­ment func­tion and act as a base for the mar­itime trade. At­tract­ing lo­gis­tics com­pa­nies and port-re­lated in­dus­try will con­tinue to be a fo­cus of the Übersee­hafen’s eco­nomic de­vel­op­ment.

Sea-based ac­cess to the port, with a cur­rent depth of 14.5 me­tres, is set to be deep­ened to 16.5 me­tres over the next few years by the Ger­man fed­eral gov­ern­ment in or­der to im­prove com­pet­i­tive­ness in the bulk-cargo in­dus­try. This re­quires deep­en­ing the sea chan­nel. The peo­ple of Ro­s­tock will con­tinue to en­sure their port, and there­fore also their city, charts the right course in the fu­ture.