Waterways
Interior hubs for sea ports
600 km of navigable inland waterways and 18 harbours/transition points – Saxony-Anhalt offers excellent transport conditions on the water.
The most important waterways
- Elbe
- Havel
- Saale
- Mittelland Canal
- Elbe-Havel-Canal
- Untere Havel-Waterway
Tri-modal Links are offered by:
Hafen Magdeburg (Elbe)– Hinterlandhub for North Sea and Baltic Sea ports www.hafen-magdeburg.de
Hafen Aken (Elbe) - www.hafen-aken.de
Haldensleben (Mittellandkanal) - www.stadt-haldensleben.de/internet/wirtschaft/hafen/
Dessau-Roßlau (Elbe): www.binnenhafen-sachsen.de
Halle-Trotha: www.hafen-halle.de
Magdeburg harbour
- Scheduled container transport
- Tri-modal container terminal with
- 2,850 m2 of storage space for dangerous goods
- Container/interchangeable container storage space of 4,500 m2, one measuring 60x20 m
- Large heavy load area on the edge of the quay, designed for loads up to 500 t,
- Ro-Ro ramp and portal crane with maximum 50 t above water, rail and road
- Links to the most significant economic areas in North, East and West Germany
Road
A 2 motorway in connection with the link to the A 14? Three federal highways: B 1 in an east-west direction, B 71 and B 81 in a north-south direction
Rail
Railway route Hannover-Berlin (east-west direction) with connection to the north (Hamburg/Rostock) and south (in the greater Halle/Leipzig and Dresden area)
Water
- Elbe with connection to Hamburg and the Czech Republic via the waterway junction with connection to the Mittelland Canal and the Elbe-Havel Canal
- Connection to the European canal system with link to the Baltic Sea via Stettin/Lübeck and the Bremen harbours/Weser using the Mittelland Canal
