What is "jadeweserport"

JadeWeserPort is Germany's largest harbour project. It is supported by the states of Lower Saxony (50.1% stake) and Bremen (49.9% stake). This new container port is located at Wilhelmshaven at the Jade Bight, a bay on the North Sea coast. It has a natural water depth in excess of 18 m. Container ships with a length of 430 m and 16,5 m draught will be able to call the JadeWeserPort at any tide. Construction work was begun in March 2008. The port was opened on 21 September 2012. First, the port failed to attract any significant cargo volumes from container lines and it lay largely unused. But the container handling could be raised from 60,000 in 2014 to 426,700 TEU in 2015. The yearly capacity of the port is 2,700,000 TEU.