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The Board Emden in Figures (2009)
- Total personnel 367
- apprentices (Azubis): 46
Organisational Emden and operational units:
- Head Office Emden, am Eisenbahndock 3
- Construction and buoy yard with workshops and berths
- VTS Centre for the river Ems
- Workshops and engineers pool for communication and radar.
- Exterior bases with maintenance squads for hydraulic engineering
Ships (specialized vessels)
- Multi Purpose Vessel (MARINE POLLUTION RESPONSE VESSEL) "Gustav Meyer": buoy tender, fire fighting, shipping police
- Marine Survey Vessels "Paapsand" and "Norderney".
- Buoy Tenders for wadden fairways "Norden" and "Lütjeoog"
- Hydrology Survey Vessel "Friesland,"
- Surveillance Boat "Lütje Hörn'', Traffic and Sounding Launch "Weekeborg"
Aids to Navigation (1999)
| Light Houses | 4 |
| shore bases Radar Stations | 4 |
| Lighted Buoys | 113 |
| Unlighted Buoys | 321 434 Navigational Buoys |
| Beacons | 25 |
| Withies (Perches) abt. | 1650 |
| Total | abt. 2117 marks |
left: Light Houses Borkum
right:VTS Centre for the river Ems
Lenghts of and duties on maintained Fairways
Main Channel:
Length: 62 nm
breadth of dredged
channel: 300 metres
(Aids to Navigation, sounding,and dredging to allow navigation of vessels with draught up to 13,5 m UKC)