The North German labour market pins its hopes on the portback to Facts and Figures
Cargo handling, transport and logistics are three of the economic cornerstones for the North German coastal region. These sectors safeguard existing jobs and create new employment: in the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven and the surrounding area, more than 80,000 jobs are directly and indirectly dependent on the port activities of the two-city state.
Container handling and the related logistics services are the backbone of port business. The amazing success story of this standardised transport crate safeguards the future of many jobs at the quayside, in the port repair shops and offices. The economic prosperity of the cargo handling companies Eurogate, North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven and MSC Gate Bremerhaven benefits not only the workers employed directly at the container terminal, but also truck drivers and haulage companies, train drivers and shunters at the port’s own railway, pilots, tugboat crews, shipbrokers and diverse other occupational groups.
A survey conducted on the container sector clearly shows that the boom at the terminal plays a strong role in revitalising the labour market in the Lower Weser region, which suffers from structural difficulties. Container throughput alone and the downstream economic activities protect around 35,000 jobs – from the gantry operator employed directly at the terminal right through to the painter working for an external company on an order placed by a firm at the terminal.
As capacity utilisation at the new CT 4 increases, the number of jobs dependent on container trade will also continue to grow. The terminal is currently preparing to cope with an annual throughput of more than 6 million TEU. Experts forecast that the port expansion will lead to more than 10,000 new jobs in Bremen, Bremerhaven and the region by the year 2020.
Commuters from the surrounding area already account for four of every ten jobs in the Federal Land of Bremen. The district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony therefore has especially high hopes of the finalised project Container-Terminal 4.
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