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- Name
- Water and Shipping Directorate Northwest
- Native name
- Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Nordwest
- Address
- Schlossplatz 9
- Zipcode
- 26603
- City
- Aurich
- State
- Niedersachsen
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- +49 4941 602 0
- Fax
- +49 4941 602 378
- Email
- poststelle@aur.wsdnw.de
- Centre Website
- http://www.wsd-nordwest.de
organisation profile
- Agency of the Federal Water and Shipping Administration. ´Water- and Shipping Directorate (WSD) Northwest´ at Aurich, an authority at intermediate level of the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV). The WSD is the regional link between the ´Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development´ and the local ´Water- and Shipping Offices´ situated at the Weser estuary, the Jade bight and the Ems estuary.
The Federal Waterway and Shipping Adminstration is responsible for providing safe shipping routes and ensuring the safety and ease of shipping. The tasks of Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Nord and Nordwest (Water and Shipping Directorate North and Northwest) and of the Waterways and Shipping Offices supervised by it, which are responsible for the German North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts, encompass the development and maintenance of the Federal waterways, installation and operation of navigational aids, removal of shipping obstructions, investigation of marine casualties, supervision of pilot services, as well as vessel traffic and information services using latest state-of-the-art technology.
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- EDMO record id
- 1180
- Collating centre
- German Oceanographic Datacentre (DOD)
- Latest update
- 19 March 2008 9:43:01 AM
