JadeWeserPort

250px|thumb|JadeWeserPort (2022) and Coal Power Station Wilhelmshaven (Onyx) 250px|thumb|Location of the JadeWeserPort immediately north of Wilhelmshaven. 250px|thumb|JadeWeserPort on a more detailed map. 250px|thumb|left|Aerial view of the JadeWeserPort construction site, May 2012 250px|thumb|JWP container cranes 250px|thumb|The Nordfrost terminal building. The crane in front of the building is one of five cranes of the goods station 250px|thumb|JWP marshalling yard JadeWeserPort () is Germany's largest harbour project. It is supported by the states of Lower Saxony (50.1% stake) and Bremen (49.9% stake). This new container port is located at Wilhelmshaven at the Jade Bight, a bay on the North Sea coast. It has a natural water depth in excess of 18 m. Container ships with a length of and draught are able to call the JadeWeserPort at any tide. Construction work was begun in March 2008. The port was opened on 21 September 2012. However, due to the Great Recession, the port was not given the warmest of welcomes, and very little TEU traffic flowed through the brand-new harbour. But the container handling could be raised from 60,000 in 2014 to 712,953 twenty-foot equivalent unit in 2021. The yearly capacity of the port is 2,700,000 TEU.

== History and construction period ==