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Facilities

The Port of Drammen is an inland deepwater port situated 45 km south-west of Oslo in the county of Buskerud. The harbour is located at the nothern end of the Drammen Fjord at the mouth of the river Drammen. It is a freshwater port and freshwater is available at every quay.

Storage

Drammen Port Authority owns a total of 24.000 sq.m of warehousing including 5.600 sq.m of temperature controlled storage. Up to 10.000 cars can be stored at Drammen including 2.000 garage spaces. The port has a total of 200.000 sq.m of open storage.

Quays

The total quay length is 1.870 m. In addition to the public quays, there are 16 private industrial quays in the Drammen area, all of which pay port dues to the Port Authority. Of the 1.6 million tonnes of cargo handled by the port each year, about 1 million tonnes is dealt with on the private quays.

Cranes

The Port of Drammen has one mobile containercrane (Liebherr LMH 400) with a lifting capacity of 100 tonnes and three quayside cranes which two of the cranes have a capacity of 23 tonnes and one of 50 tonnes. Below, you will find more information about the equipment of the cranes and where they are situated. All the cranes are operated by the port.

ODIN (Holmen South)
Capasity: 100 tonnes   Bromma automatic container spreader: 20-40-45 feet Grab: (10 m3 for bulk cargoes)

PERNILLE (Holmen South)
Capasity:  23 tonnes

TORBJØRN (Holmen South)
Capasity:  50 tonnes     Bromma automatic container spreader: 20-40 feet

HENRIK (Tangen)
Capasity:  23 tonnes       Grabs: Two shell type grabs and one bulkgrab (5 m3)

Other details

Approach
The port is approached by way of Oslo Fjord and Drammen Fjord. The Drammen Fjord is entered through the Svelvik Sound, which has a sailing width of 100 m and a draught limit of 11 m.

Airport
Oslo Airport Gardermoen can be reached within 60 minutes by road using the E 18 / E 6 motorway from Drammen.

Fork-lift Trucks
More than 60 fork-lift trucks are available in the port with lifting capacities from 1.5 tonnes to 30 tonnes. Many have special attachments for lifting bales, reels and 20 ft / 40 ft containers. A tugmaster unit is available for ro-ro cargo.

Pilotage
Pilotage is available. If a pilot is required, the pilot service requires at least 4 hours notice of ETA. The Pilot is picked up at Færder, 40 nautical miles south of Svelvik. Transit time from Færder to Drammen is normally 4 hours.

Towage
Towage within the port area is available 24 hours a day.

Ship repair
A large repair facility is located on the west bank of the Drammen Fjord. The yard can drydock vessels of up to 10.000 dwt. It has two floating drydocks (175 m x 24 m og 145 m x 19 m) as well as fabrication and assembly shops.

Ro-Ro
The port has 4 ro-ro quays. Holmen South, Holmen East, Kattegat og Risgarden, with depths of 9, 7, 10 and 10 m. respectively.

Radio
It is compulsory for all vessels using the port to listen on VHF Channel 16.

More

All kinds of bunker are available, delivered by barge or road tanker.

There are two oil tanker terminals.

And one private terminal for liquified gas.

Tidal variation is negligible in the Drammen Fjord.