In January, the first barge carrying gigantic cable reels arrived in bayernhafen Regensburg. The reels, which were produced near Paris, each hold around 1.75 km of underground cable and weigh up to 80 tonnes. A tracked crane operated by the bayernhafen-based crane specialist, Schmidbauer, offloaded the reels at the heavy-lift handling quay. The first load of cable drums – more are to follow in the coming months – are being stored locally at an existing logistics site that is currently under redevelopment. The underground cables are to be used for the SuedOstLink project, which will supply Bavaria with electricity from wind energy generated in the north and east of Germany. The project is being overseen in Bavaria by the transmission system operator, TenneT.

Bamberg, January 2021 – A superlatively sized steel component for a wind turbine took a trip through Upper Franconia, en route to its final destination to the village of Tanna-Schilbach in Thuringia, where the colossus is to be installed in a wind farm.

But it all began with the arrival of the steel component by barge at bayernhafen Bamberg, where the 40-meter-long steel tower, measuring 5 metres in diameter and weighing 88 tonnes, was lifted onto land with the aid of two special cranes. The next day it was loaded onto a special truck to tackle the final leg by road.

The entire journey took four days and covered a distance of 160 kilometres. At a number of points along the way, this called for logistical dexterity, even though there were hardly any obstacles standing in its way during the night-time transport.

Passau, 07.03.2018 – The beginning of March saw a heavy-lift handling project of the super-sized kind carried out at bayernhafen Passau, with 24 wind turbine blades, each weighing in at around 17 tonnes, loaded onto barge – and, measuring in at 60 metres in length (approximately the length of an ice hockey playing field), also an inland waterway premiere.

The wind turbine blades were transported by road from Poland to Passau-Schalding. bayernhafen Passau was commissioned by the company, Transannaberg, to transfer the wind turbine blades to barge. Coordinating the loading of the blades onto barge between the port’s dedicated mobile crane and Transannaberg’s mobile crane required a high degree of precision, patience and skill.

The wind turbine blade will continue its journey down the Danube for around 1,100 kilometres to the port of Pančevo in Serbia. The transport will be carried out by the ‘Ursa Montana’ – at 191.5 metres long and 17.40 metres wide, one of the largest barge convoys in Europe. Due to its size, the ‘Ursa Montana’ is only able to dock at bayernhafen Passau in Bavaria, which emphasises the special status of this port location for heavy-lift/large-volume transport.

bayernhafen Passau, along with the ports of Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Roth and Regensburg, is a member of bayernhafen Gruppe. Due to its excellent accessibility for wide-load and high machinery components, such as transformers, and the associated handling possibilities, the bayernhafen Gruppe locations play an important role in securing the long-term commitment of plant and equipment manufacturers.

Regensburg, 10 July 2017 – Not one but two spectacular heavy-lift successes in a short space of time in bayernhafen Regensburg: In early July, a 44-tonne mobile crane found itself at the other end of the hook. The mobile crane, which was on its way to Bulgaria, was loaded on to a barge with the aid of two port cranes. In the preceding week, it was the turn of a pair of lock gates to be moved from shore to ship: The two 15.3-metre long, 4.65-metre wide, 4.2-metre high lock gates weighing around 55 tonnes each were destined for the Cernavodă lock in Romania. The precise loading of the lock gates and the mobile crane onto the barge was carried out by two port cranes operating in tandem, i.e. two cranes moving one object together.

The lock gates were manufactured in Plauen before being transported by road to Regensburg. The journey from Regensburg to Cernavodă by inland waterway will take around ten to twelve days. Cernavodă is the start of the 65-kilometre long Danube-Black Sea Canal, which flows into the Black Sea near Constanța. The heavy lift handling was organised by the Port of Regensburg-based cargo handling specialist, DTU Donau-Transport- und Umschlaggesellschaft mbH, a joint venture of Kühne+Nagel Germany and Main- Schifffahrts-Genossenschaft MSG. Shipping was carried out by Panta Rhei Befrachtungs- und Speditions GmbH, a 65%-owned subsidiary of Kühne + Nagel Euroshipping. “Transporting heavy-lift and bulky cargo by inland waterway is much safer and much better for the environment,” says Joachim Zimmermann, Chief Executive Officer of bayernhafen Gruppe. “By contrast, it is considerably more complex and costly to transport heavy-lift cargo on the motorway.” bayernhafen Regensburg, along with the ports of Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Roth and Passau, is a member of the bayernhafen Gruppe. As a result of its excellent accessibility for wide-load and high machinery components, such as transformers, and the associated handling possibilities, the bayernhafen Gruppe locations play an important role in securing the long-term commitment of plant and equipment manufacturers to the area.

On Friday 7 April 2017, a river barge carrying the ‘MS Utting’ arrived in bayernhafen Roth. After travelling from a shipyard near Bonn, the pleasure boat was brought to shore in two parts – hull and upper deck – by heavy-lift mobile crane. It was then transported on Monday evening on a low loader via the A9 motorway to Lake Ammersee – due to its sheer size, a challenge for all involved.
The MS Utting is 68 metres in length, almost 10 metres wide, weighs around 400 tonnes and is worth around €5 million.

The ship will be able to carry up to 500 passengers across Lake Ammersee and can also be hired for events.

After travelling across half of Germany, the new pride of the Bavarian lake fleet finally took to the waters of Lake Ammersee on Wednesday morning.

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