Ship Lift Niederfinow Nord
Heavy-duty lifting technology for ship lift
Customer
Waterways and Shipping Authority Oder-Havel / Federal Republic of Germany
Country
Germany
The Waterways and Shipping Authority is a federal authority in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport. Around 420 people are employed by the authority. The WSA Oder-Havel is one of 17 waterways and navigation offices nationwide. The authority is part of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration and, as the river police and construction supervision authority, ensures that the waterways are navigable and the federally owned navigation facilities and waterways are safe. As a navigation police authority, the WSV ensures that no hazards to people or the environment arise from traffic or other uses on the waterway.
Year of commissioning
2022
Heavy-duty lifting technology for:
Ships
Technical data
125.5 m x 12.5 m x 4.0 m
ca. 10,000 t
56.0 m
112 off x 4.0 m
60 mm
Information on the project
As a partner to ARGE Niederfinow, the SIEMAG TECBERG group with its knowledge-based services in the fields of engineering / implementation planning, procurement, production supervision, assembly supervision and support during commissioning is responsible for the sophisticated machine technology. This includes for example the trough drive, trough safety device, trough holding device, trough guides and counterweight system. In future, vessels up to 11.45 metres wide and 110 metres long will be able to pass through the 115 metre long Niederfinow trough.
This is enabled by the ship lift‘s lifting technology, which functions according to the Archimedean counterweight principle like a Koepe hoisting machine, as the mass of the waterfilled trough remains the same when a ship enters.
The SIEMAG TECBERG group is contributing its decades of experience with counterweight systems in shaft hoisting to this project. In the new elevator, the filled trough hangs on 224 60-mm diameter steel cables, which are connected to the counterweight groups on both sides via 112 double cable pulleys with a diameter of 4 metres. Based on the client‘s concept, the SIEMAG TECBERG group further completed the hydraulically operated trough holding devices in the upper and lower berthing positions as well as the horizontal trough guiding devices in the longitudinal and transverse direction of the structure.
