Bayernhafen GmbH & Co. KG as the railway infrastructure company, provides its tenants and customers with a performance-ready port rail infrastructure with a signal box and a total of 54 km platform length (therefore 12.5 km electrified).

The railway infrastructure is, in the case of full trains, directly connected to the Deutsche Bahn long-distance network, as well as in the case of single-carriage transportation through the Nuremberg Railway Yard. Through extension measures to the Port Railway Station, full trains with a length of 700 m can travel in and out. Almost all of the lots in the Western and Eastern part of bayernhafen, as well as all quay facilities, have a rail connection to the port railway.

After various attempts to implement the project ended in failure, the plan only took on concrete form again in the 19th century. The idea, for political and economic reasons, of connecting Franconia and Upper Bavaria, as well as the Southern states of the German Federation, more closely with their Northern neighbours gave a stronger impetus to the planning of the artificial water route.

In 1825, King Louis I contracted the construction of a canal link.

In 1837, the construction works began on the 172 kilometre long route of the Louis-Danube-Main Canal. The canal, which then ran from Nuremberg to Bamberg, was completed in 1843.

During these years of intensive work, 101 locks, countless canal bridges, road and footpath overpasses, road underpasses, dams, clefts and culverts were built.

On the then 15.80-metre wide and 1.46-metre deep canal, ships of a length of up to 32 metres and a width of up to 4.45 metres with a maximum load capacity of 120 tons plied the route. Yet, unfortunately, this was not enough. As a result of the more progressive rail transport and the insufficient dimensions of the Louis-Danube-Main Canal, shipping traffic decreased rapidly.

The new Main-Danube Canal was, contrary to its predecessor, connected to the entire European water route network from the beginning. Furthermore, it boasted a sufficient width of 55 metres and 4 metres depth to provide a regular, fully laden ship of up to 3,000 tons with a safe and profitable passage of up to eleven kilometres per hour. Today the canal facilitates countless connections along the water route.

In 1926, the Master Development Plan of the City of Nuremberg marked out a trading port that corresponds to the 337 hectares of today.

11.11.1966: After three years of negotiations, during a ceremony at the grand meeting hall of the municipal council, the Port Agreement was signed. The Port Agreement governs the practical and financial relationships between the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Nuremberg for the building and operation of the State Port. The Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, Dr. Hundhammer, the State Minister for Finance, Dr. Pöhner and the State Minister of the Interior, Dipl.-lng. Junker, sign the contract on behalf of the Free State of Bavaria and the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Dr. Urschlechter, on behalf of the City of Nuremberg.

With the first detonation on 5 July 1968, construction work began on the port of Nuremberg, which in the 30 years of its existence has developed into the largest logistics and service centre in southern Germany.

23.09.1972: The Port of Nuremberg is opened by the Bavarian Minister President, Alfons Goppel, in the presence of countless guests of honour, including the Federal Minister for Transport, Lauritz Lauritzen, and practically the entire Bavarian cabinet. 200,000 people gather to watch from the shore of the canal and the east quay. The guests of honour travel in nine passenger ships from the Alte Veste in Fürth to the port, which is covered by a curtain of water sprayed by the fire service. The convoy of ships and the guests of honour, followed by 26 motorised freight ships, sail into the port. On quay 2, at the head of the council, Lord Mayor Dr. Urschlechter, greets the guests of honour. In the afternoon, the event is given an international boost in a ceremony held as part of the International Rhine-Main-Danube Exhibition Europe 72. The ceremonial addresses are held by the Austrian Foreign Minister Dr. Kirchschläger and President Pflimlin of Strasbourg.

31.07.1995: The notarial contracts for the organisational privatisation of the Nuremberg Port Authority are certified. The ports of Nuremberg and Roth are henceforth to be operated and developed by Hafen Nürnberg-Roth GmbH. The then port director, Reg. Bmstr. Dipl.-Ing. Walter Schmidt, is appointed Managing Director.

07.10.2004: Official ground-breaking ceremony for the trimodal CT handling facility of Hafen Nürnberg-Roth GmbH by the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Dr. Otto Wiesheu, Mayor Horst Förther, Spokesman on Economic Affairs Dr. Roland Fleck and Managing Director Harald Leupold.

2.07.2006: Official inauguration ceremony of the trimodal CT handling facility in the presence of 300 guests from Germany and abroad as well as tributes from the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Erwin Huber, Mayor Horst Förther, Dr. Roland Fleck and Managing Director Harald Leupold.

5.12.2009: Official opening ceremony of the 2nd module of the combined transport handling facility of DB Netz AG in the freight village. Operating company TriCon.