Mannheim Harbour
Mannheim Harbour, named "Rhein-Neckar-Hafen Mannheim", is a river port on the Rhine in Mannheim, at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar in Baden-Wurttemberg. It consists out of 4 main harbour areas "Handelshafen", "Rheinauhafen", "Altrheinhafen" and "Industriehafen", which are divided into 14 single harbour basins and 3 river docks. It is one of the most important inland ports in Europe. The port covers 3.42 km² of water (2.83 km² Rhine, 0.59 km² Neckar) and 8.635 km² of dockland. The total land area covered from the harbour is about 11.31 km² and it is the  biggest inland port in Germany based on this measure. The "Rhein-Neckar-Hafen Mannheim" reflects a trimodal transport node at the junction of road and rail inks and two national waterways and offers various transhipment facilities. The 4 main harbour areas have overnight rail connections to all German and many important European commercial centres and it can be accessed by road via several main motorways. Infrastructure. The port includes 226 hectares of outside storage and handling area and 119 hectares of roofed storage area. It also provides 1,527 storage silos and bunkers for grain, coal, gravel, cement, fruit, feed and  other bulk goods with a total capacity of over 385,000 tonnes and for liquid based products like mineral and edible oils, 1,078 tanks with a total capacity of almost 1.5 million tonnes are available. Furthermore, the port provides: Today. About 500 enterprises with more than 20,000 jobs are established on the dockland and service providers in the wider area around the port. The port management company has announced in December 2017, that the port will generate new records mostly in all segments which are operated.