When it opened, the port of Dortmund initially had just five docks (canal port, city port, southern port, coal port, petroleum port). A further five (Schmieding port, Marx port, Mathies port, Hardenberg port and industrial port) were added by 1914.
“With a total investment of one billion euros measured in today’s purchasing power, the construction of the Dortmund-Ems Canal and the Dortmund port, which were geared to the needs of the mining industry, were one of the largest European infrastructure projects of the 19th century,” explains Dr. Ellerbrock.
And the port was a prerequisite and guarantee for Dortmund’s development into an industrial metropolis. Without the port, we might not be talking about the Ruhr region today, but rather the “Rhine region”.
Dr. Ellerbrock: “It was a necessary location optimization, especially for the local steel industry, which was already considering moving to the Rhine.”
Record wave after the war.
After severe destruction in the Second World War, the port quickly regained importance during the economic miracle and reached its highest annual throughput to date in 1960 with 6.8 million tons. More about the history of Dortmund port.
The port has long been a modern logistics center, a significant, diverse business location, an important sports and, above all, leisure area. And the port is far from full of the canal. Just last week, an elaborately restored crane docked in a prominent location as the new harbor jewel – unique. The Speicherstrasse harbor quarter is being built directly on the bank, and Dortmunder Energie- und Wasserversorgung (DEW21) and Deutsche Gasrußwerke want to realize a joint project at the port to produce hydrogen through electrolysis. The LOG4NRW cooperation project to shift truck traffic to rail. Other projects by port residents include, for example, the Green Steel Logistics Hub of the company Rhenus, a planned heavy goods hub of the company Deufol or the planned ICE plant Dortmund-Hafen of the Deutsche Bahn
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