Location Worms - Industry, Service and Trade

Town with numerous possibilities
Worms is a medium sized town which also has the sub-function of a city (10.873 ha area, 80.000 inhabitants). All types of schools and an independent college of further education (Foreign trade/Industry and commerce, European Business Management, Taxation and Information Technology), a very varied recreational and cultural offer, a high quality of living and favourable climatic conditions make life here very pleasant.

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Many ways lead to Worms
The excellent connections by road, rail, water and air are an important location factor – at the moment the second Worms bridge over the Rhine is in planning, as is the extension of the Worms airfield. A direct parallel road to relieve the B9 is also being developed in the industrial area.

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Worms Industrial Area - Basis for Economic Strength
Various areas around the town provide excellent possibilities for the construction of industrial areas.
A selection of available areas in Worms and its districts can be found ...here

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Location information:

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Motorways
... A5 Darmstadt-Heidelberg, join from B47 (17 km)
... A67 Frankfurt-Mannheim, join from B47 (14 km)
... A6 Mannheim-Saarbrücken, join from B9 (9 km) and L523 (8 km)
... A61 Koblenz-Speyer (im Stadtgebiet), join from approach road from
Industriegebiet Worms Nord (B9) (north industrial area) to motorway
junction Worms-Nord / Mörstadt (5 km)

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Main roads
... L523 North-South connection on the left side of the Rhine

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Bundesstraßen (equiv. A-Roads)
... B 9 four-lane, no crossroads, fast road from Worms-Ludwigshafen
... B 47 East-West connection over the Worms Rhine bridge

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Rail Traffic
... Passenger:
    DB AG; Rheinland-Pfalz-Takt (extensive network, good connections,
    hourly), IC/ICE-connection, further connections over Mannheim
    (15 min.) or Mainz (45 min.)
... Freight:
    DB AG; freight connection partly available in industrial area, harbour 
    railway belonging to Stadtwerke Worms

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Harbour

The entire harbour area covers 265.000 m². The average volume of freight traffic per year totals around 1.100.000 t.
... Basin:
    The basin is designed for all types of ship.
    Floating harbour 44.000 m²
    Trading port 33.000 m²
    Width of shipping channel 60 m
    Length of extended bank 3.400 m
... Loading facilities:
    4 electric cranes from 3 to 15 t
    6 loading bridges each 1 to 25 t
    1 container crane
    1 tower rotary crane
    6 extinguishing facilities for crops
    4 extinguishing facilities for oil
... Storage:
    Free storage places for bulk goods 50.000 m²
    Warehouses 9.100 m²
    Silos 34.000 m²
    Storage lofts 26.000 t
    Tank room 32.700 cbm 
... Harbour railway:
    Track 20,6 km
    2 diesel locomotives
    Connection to national rail network 
... Distances from Worms harbour to following harbours:
    Ludwigshafen/Mannheim 20 km
    Gernsheim 18 km
    Basel 280 km
    Duisburg 335 km
    Rotterdam 556 km

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Air Traffic
Traffic landing strip Worms belonging to Flugplatz GmbH Worms-Frankenthal-Ludwigshafen
(Landing strip for business planes)
... Co-ordinates:
    49° 36´ 27" N, 08° 22´ 04" E, 295 ft elev.
... Runway:
    Asphalt 800 x 23 m
    Grass 900 x 35 m
... Take-off weight:
    5,7 t, with special allowance 10 t
... Next commercial airport:
    Frankfurt - Rhine-Main (40 min., 48 km as the crow flies)

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Supply and waste disposal
... Water:
    Hardness approx. 16,5 dH degrees, first class quality
... Gas:
    Natural gas of Group H
    High, middle and low pressure pipes
    Burns HON = 11,100 kWh/m3n
    High pressure ring DN 300 ND 64
... Electricity:
    20 kV / 110 kV

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Rates of tax assessment
... Property tax A 260 %
... Property tax B 360 %
... Trade tax 400 %