duisport: Facts and figures

The Port of Duisburg is the world’s largest inland port and the leading logistics hub in Central Europe.

It is located in the heart of Europe's largest consumer market with more than 30 million consumers over a radius of 150 kilometers. 20,000 ships and 25,000 trains are processed per year.

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FACTS, FIGURES AND DATAfinancial year 2021

World’s
largest inland
container
port

1.100 ha

area, with 21 port basins, 200 km of track,
9 container terminals with 21 gantry cranes,
5 import coal terminals, 19 facilities for handling liquid goods

approx 0.6 million m³ tank room for liquid goods

1,000

employees within
the duisport Group

Infrastructure
and suprastructure

4.3

million TEU
of container handling

58.2 m. tonnes
of total cargo handled by the duisport Group

3.1 Mio t

of total handing volumes by all
Duisburg ports including the
private ports

Global companies
in Duisburg (selection):

Audi, DB Schenker, DHL, Hewlett Packard,
Johnson & Johnson, Kühne + Nagel, Mitsubishi,
Fressnapf, Siemens etc.

Investments: € 33 billion since 1998

Added value: € 3 billion per year
(generated by the 300 logistics-focused
companies that are based in the
Port of Duisburg)

Logistic services

Transport
node for five autobahns

€ 100.8
million
revenues

20 ha

is the total amount of
area covered by the
logport family.

Network with more than 400 train
connections per week to over
100 national and international destinations

2,580

direct and indirect port-dependent
employees in around 300
transport and logistics companies
in the whole Port of Duisburg

EBITDA
€ 1.7 million

in 2021

2.2 million

m² of covered storage space

Our Management

Markus Bangen (President & CEO),
Dr. Carsten Hinne (1.1.22),
Lars Nennhaus (1.1.23)
Prof. Thomas Schlipköther (31.12.22)

Water depth for river-sea vessels
with a loading capacity of up to 6,000 t
or around 500 20 foot standard containers

Packing
logistics

Handles 25,000 trains
and 20,000 ships per annum

Up to 60

trains run weekly between Duisburg
and a dozen destinations in China

cranes up to 500 t lifting capacity,
2 Ro/Ro facilities

Contract
logistics

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Additional exciting facts and figures about the Port of Duisburg can be found here:

logport I & logport II	300 ha
port basins	21
railway track	200 km
container terminals	8, with 21 gantry cranes
import coal terminals	5
tank room for liquid goods	ca. 0,6 Mio m³
facilities for handling liquid goods	19

Cargo handled

	2020	2019
Total cargo handled by all Duisburg ports including the private ports	110.4 Mio. t	123.7 Mio. t
Total cargo handled by the duisport Group	59.0 Mio. t	61.1 Mio. t
Containers handled	4.2 Mio. TEU	4.0 Mio. TEU

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