OLDENBURG. The first half of 2020 saw an an eleven percent decline in maritime traffic for Lower Saxony’s nine seaports. The port group handled a total of 24 million tonnes. But the pandemic did not affect all the ports adversely. There were positive developments in Papenburg and Oldenburg and also in Stade, where a stable half-year result was achieved with 3.36 million tonnes. There was an increase of eleven percent compared to 3.03 million tonnes in the same period of the previous year.
Construction of the New Railway Bridge over the Hunte Begins – Key Hub for Seaports of Niedersachsen
Elsfleth. A good day for the seaports of Brake, Nordenham, and Oldenburg: On Monday, the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new railway bridge over the Hunte near Elsfleth took place in the presence of Federal Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder, Lower Saxony’s Minister-President Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economic Affairs Grant Hendrik Tonne, and DB InfraGO CEO Philipp Nagl.
