PORT RAIL­WAY: FROM THE DOCKS TO THE HEART OF EU­ROPE

The Ham­burg Port Rail­way is the link be­tween the tran­ship­ment com­pa­nies and the eu­ro­pean rail net­work. Whether the goods are trans­ported from the port to the four cor­ners of the world or vice versa, the Port Rail­way pro­vides the nec­es­sary in­fra­struc­ture for every rail trans­port com­pany that wants to ac­cess the Port of Ham­burg.

In­stan­ta­neous trans­fers

The tremen­dous vol­ume of cargo at the port calls for gen­uine or­gan­i­sa­tional tal­ent. One such tool is a mod­ern IT-based op­er­at­ing sys­tem that en­sures the en­tire rail­way op­er­a­tion is pre­cisely timed. The Port Rail­way runs like clock­work day and night so that all the con­tain­ers reach their des­ti­na­tion re­li­ably and with­out delay.

All port rail­way traf­fic re­ports in one spot

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Port rail­way in­fra­struc­ture

The in­fra­struc­ture of the port rail­way is made up of eight sta­tions and four groups of tracks. The tracks are di­vided into four cat­e­gories, based on the fees to be paid. Ad­di­tion­ally, the Ham­burg port rail­way has lo­co­mo­tive sid­ing areas, load­ing tracks and brake test­ing fa­cil­i­ties, as well as the pos­si­bil­ity to fuel. In some areas, the tracks are elec­tric. You can find overview maps and not-to-scale track plans to de­scribe the in­fra­struc­ture in the Down­load Cen­ter under the Rail­way cat­e­gory “Maps and Plans”. 

To use the in­fra­struc­ture and the in­fra­struc­ture fa­cil­i­ties, the rail trans­port com­pany must close an in­fra­struc­ture use con­tract with HPA under the con­di­tions found in our terms and con­di­tions of use. The terms and con­di­tions of use can be found in the Down­load Cen­ter under the Rail­way cat­e­gory “Terms of use”, as well as the in­fra­struc­ture use con­tract under the Rail­way cat­e­gory “Con­tracts of use”. 

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Your down­loads for the field port rail­way

Here you can find all down­loads from the field port rail­way pre-fil­tered for you.

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  • Form
  • Guidelines
  • Operational Instructions
  • Maps and Plans
  • Brochures
  • List of Remuneration
  • Loading Tracks
  • Terms of Use
  • Contracts of Use
  • transPORT rail
  • Traffic Information

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Here you can find all con­tacts of the HPA from the field port rail­way

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  • Public Affairs
  • Chief Har­bour Mas­ter
  • Port railway
  • Maritim Affairs/Port Fees/Inland Shipping, Inland Waterway

Con­tact De­tails (4)

Couldn't find the right con­tact for you? Here you can find all con­tacts of the HPA in the con­tact-cen­tre.

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  • Our load­ing tracks
  • Ser­vices for rail spurs

Our load­ing tracks

Load­ing tracks for rapid trans ship­ment

The load­ing tracks in the Port of Ham­burg are pub­lic load­ing lo­ca­tions for cargo han­dling be­tween rails and street. They're at hand for all rail­way un­der­tak­ings that con­cluded a valid in­fra­struc­ture li­cense agree­ment with the HPA. The use re­quires a re­quest at the Port Rail­way ser­vice cen­tre. There are fur­ther de­tails which set­tle the HPA-NBS BT and the valid list of fees and charges. 

Port Railway HPA

Load­ing track Ross­weg (ROS 775)

The load­ing track Ross­weg in the area mit­tlerer Frei­hafen has got a large stor­age area and is about 400 m long. It is suit­able for the trans ship­ment of bulk cargo like build­ing ma­te­r­ial. Op­er­at­ing in­struc­tions for the load­ing track are in­cluded in the order of the rail­way man­ager no. 006/2016.

Data sheet Ross­weg

Re­quests / reser­va­tions:
Port Rail­way ser­vice cen­tre tel.: +49 40 42847-1888

e-mail: B-Ser­vice­Desk@​hpa.​ham­burg.​de

HPA Dradenau

Load­ing track Antwer­pen­straße (WHO 066)

The load­ing track is lo­cated on the Antwer­pen­straße at the rail­way sta­tion Drade­nau and is suit­able for the trans ship­ment of heavy-lift and pro­ject cargo.

Data sheet Antwer­pen­straße

Re­quests / reser­va­tions:
Port Rail­way ser­vice cen­tre Tel.: +49 40 42847-1888

e-mail: B-Ser­viceDesk@​hpa.​hamburg.​de

Im­por­tant in­for­ma­tion for you

Upon re­quest the load­ing tracks can also be used for freight wagon main­te­nance as long as there's no load­ing sched­uled at the same time. 

Please give the fol­low­ing de­tails with every re­quest:

  • De­sired pe­riod of use (day, time)
  • Used wag­ons (in­clud­ing wagon num­ber)
  • Type of load­ing/ planned ac­tiv­ity
  • Are you plan­ning to use a crane?

Here you can re­serve your load­ing tracks

Port Rail­way ser­vice cen­tre

The Port Rail­way ser­vice cen­tre ac­cepts ap­point­ments for the usage of the load­ing tracks under the num­ber:

Tel.: +49(0)40/42847-1888

e-mail: B-Ser­viceDesk@​hpa.​hamburg.​de

Ser­vices for rail spurs

Rail spurs – Our rail­way en­gi­neer­ing ser­vice for you

Do you need your own track sys­tems at the port of Ham­burg?
Or is your ex­ist­ing rail sid­ing in need of a makeover?

We are the spe­cial­ists in as­sist­ing you with the im­ple­men­ta­tion of your pro­jects and
we put our in-depth and ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence at your dis­posal. We will get your in­fra­struc­ture up and run­ning and keep it in shape.

Build­ing new as well as op­er­at­ing and main­tain­ing rail­ways and level cross­ings in pri­vate sid­ings at the port of Ham­burg re­quires a high de­gree of ex­pe­ri­ence and spe­cialised knowl­edge. We are happy to put our many years of know-how at your dis­posal.

Our range of ser­vices cov­ers every­thing from op­er­at­ing and main­tain­ing your en­tire rail in­fra­struc­ture within your rail spur to spe­cial ser­vices such as main­tain­ing level cross­ings and cross­ing safety sys­tems. We are also happy to help you plan and pro­mote your own rail­ways.

HPA Port Railway Workshop

Our ser­vices in de­tail

Struc­tural en­gi­neer­ing
• Tai­lor-made main­te­nance pack­ages for each rail in­fra­struc­ture
• Ad­vice on the con­struc­tion of new rail spurs (con­struc­tion tech­nol­ogy and sup­port)
• Ad­vice on the as­sess­ment of ex­ist­ing rail in­fra­struc­ture
• Con­struc­tion, re­pair and in­spec­tion of your su­per­struc­ture

En­ergy, con­trol and safety en­gi­neer­ing
• Plan and in­stall new level cross­ings
• Test and main­tain ex­ist­ing level cross­ings
• Test and main­tain all ex­ist­ing sig­nal tech­nol­ogy and elec­tri­cal lo­cally set switches (EOW)

Rail spurs

Rail spurs are in­ter­faces be­tween the Ham­burg port rail­way and the ter­mi­nals and busi­nesses at the port of Ham­burg. They en­sure the rail trans­port chain be­tween senders at the heart of Eu­rope and the docks is con­tin­u­ous. The ac­tual in­ter­face is usu­ally the con­nect­ing switch that forms the link be­tween the port rail­way and the rail spur.

A pro­pri­etary rail spur pro­vides the fol­low­ing ad­van­tages:

• Con­nec­tion to the na­tional and in­ter­na­tional rail net­work
• Se­cure and re­li­able trans­port plan­ning
• Or­gan­i­sa­tion of very large cargo vol­umes
• Con­tri­bu­tion to the preser­va­tion of the en­vi­ron­ment by re­duc­ing air and noise pol­lu­tion

Legal reg­u­la­tions

Op­er­a­tors of in­fra­struc­ture con­nec­tions must com­ply with the fol­low­ing statu­tory pro­vi­sions:

Ger­man Gen­eral Rail­way Act (AEG)
Each rail­way must allow ad­ja­cent rail­ways to con­nect to their own rail­way in­fra­struc­ture under favourable con­di­tions, also in terms of cost (sec­tion 13 of the AEG).

Ger­many’s Fed­eral States’ laws
In­fra­struc­ture con­nec­tions are sub­ject to the leg­is­la­tion and su­per­vi­sion of the Ger­man Fed­eral State in which the in­fra­struc­ture is lo­cated. The laws of each Ger­man Fed­eral State reg­u­late the legal re­la­tion­ships of rail spurs. This in­cludes in par­tic­u­lar the nec­es­sary ap­proval pro­ce­dures for the con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tion of a rail­way and the pre­req­ui­sites for the con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tion of a rail spur. The su­per­vi­sory au­thor­ity for the Ham­burg port rail­way and the rail spurs in the port of Ham­burg is LEA.

Reg­u­la­tion on the con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tion of rail spurs (BOA)
The reg­u­la­tions adopted by the State of Ham­burg are in­tended to en­sure the se­cure and reg­u­lated han­dling of rail trans­port. They con­tain the basic rail­way reg­u­la­tions for the con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tion of a rail spur, in­clud­ing:

• Tech­ni­cal pa­ra­me­ters
• Re­quire­ments for the rail cars used
• Re­quire­ments for rail staff

The Fed­eral Re­pub­lic of Ger­many grants com­mer­cial en­ter­prises with a pri­vate legal struc­ture sub­si­dies for in­vest­ments in the con­struc­tion, de­vel­op­ment and re­ac­ti­va­tion of in­fra­struc­ture spurs that are closed or no longer in use. The max­i­mum amount of the sub­sidy is lim­ited to 50% of the el­i­gi­ble ex­pen­di­ture and is granted as a non-re­payable grant. To this end, 14 mil­lion euros are pro­vided by the Fed­eral Min­istry of Trans­port up through the year 2020.

In re­turn, the com­mer­cial en­ter­prise un­der­takes to in­crease the trans­port per­for­mance in terms of trans­port vol­ume by a cer­tain amount within the fund­ing pe­riod – gen­er­ally five years. The ap­proval au­thor­ity is the Fed­eral Rail­way Au­thor­ity (EBA) in Bonn.

  • Our load­ing tracks
  • Ser­vices for rail spurs

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