Port of Vienna

Port of Vienna
Port of Vienna pier
Location
Country	Austria
Location	Vienna
Details
Owned by	Wiener Hafen Management GmbH
Type of harbour	Natural/Artificial
Size	350 acres (3.5 square kilometres)
Employees	241[1] (2007)
General manager	Michael Hefelle
Statistics
Vessel arrivals	4,371 vessels (2007)[2]
Annual cargo tonnage	12 milliontonnes (2007)[3]
Annual container volume	323,000 TEU (2007)[4]
Passenger traffic	305,000 people[5] (2007)
Annual revenue	45 million Euro[6]
Website http://www.wienerhafen.com (in German)

The Port of Vienna is the largest Austrian river port and one of the largest ports on the Danube River, with a total annual traffic capacity of around 12 million tonnes of cargo.

Statistics

In 2007 the Port of Vienna handled 12,000,000 tonnes of cargo and 323,000 TEUs making it the busiest cargo and container port in Austria and one of the largest in Central Europe.

General statistics in 2007 [7]

Year	2007
Containers TEU's	323,000
Automobiles (new units)	72,000
Passengers (nr)	305,000
Total^*'	12

* figures in millions of tonnes

Terminals

Container terminal

The terminal was opened in 2000 and has a storage area of 60,000 m^2 (15 acres).[8]

Automobile terminal

The cars terminal is one of the largest in Central Europe used for imports of new cars and can accommodate 10,000 cars at once on a 160,000 m^2 (40-acre) plot of land.[9]

General cargo

The general cargo terminal has a storage area of 270,000 m^2 (67 acres).[10]

Passenger terminal

The Port of Vienna has one of the largest passenger terminals on the Danube River; it handled 305,000 passengers in 2007.[11]

References

1. Port of Vienna number of employees
2. Port of Vienna ship arrivals
3. Port of Vienna cargo volume
4. Port of Vienna container volume
5. Port of Vienna passenger traffic
6. Annual report
7. Official figures
8. Container terminal
9. Automobile terminal
10. General cargo terminal
11. Largest passenger terminal in Austria