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Copenhagen harbor seen from the spire of Our Saviour's Church, March 2013 Inderhavnen, Indre By Nordhavnen The administration building on the Esplanade. The Port of Copenhagen [1] (Danish: Københavns Havn) is the largest Danish seaport and one of the largest ports in the Baltic Sea basin.
The Free Port of Copenhagen is a bonded area in the northern part of Port of Copenhagen of Copenhagen, Denmark. Created to consolidate Copenhagen's position as an important maritime hub in Northern Europe, it was established in the area just north of the fortress Kastellet and later expanded northwards several times.
This list of ports in Denmark lists major ports in Denmark by cargo volume in 2014 as defined by Statistics Denmark. [1]Cargo refers to all transferred units including freight cargo, bulk cargo, containers, vehicles and passengers.
Copenhagen's name (København in Danish), reflects its origin as a harbour and a place of commerce.The original designation in Old Norse, from which Danish descends, was Kaupmannahǫfn [ˈkɔupˌmɑnːɑˌhɔvn] (cf. modern Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn [ˈkʰœipˌmanːaˌhœpn̥], Faroese: Keypmannahavn [ˈtʃʰɛʰpmanːaˌhavn]), meaning 'merchants' harbour'.
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Nordhavn viewed from Langelinie, after expansion. The agency By og Havn has started the 668 million DKK expansion of Nordhavn into Øresund. The project is the largest construction job in Denmark in 2013 and the largest consumer of steel in Northern Europe; 28,000 tonnes of steel is used for pile driving the sheet piles of the perimeter, and the area is being filled with 7 million tonnes of ...
The wharf was constructed as part of the original free port which was constructed in 1894. The Silo Warehouse which was completed at its tip that same year was the new port area's most imposing building until it was demolished after a fire in 1969. The building was designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup with inspiration from Christian IV's Renaissance ...
Slusen in the South Harbour of Copenhagen. Slusen (literally "The Sluice") is a lock in the South Harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark. It regulates water levels and inhibits unfavourable currents in the Copenhagen Harbour, occupying both sides of the narrow strait between Zealand and Amager. It lends its name to the adjacent Sluseholmen neighbourhood.