BREMERHAVEN, a seaport of Germany, within the Land of Bremen, on the right bank and estuary of the Weser, at the confluence of the Geeste, 38m. N. of the city of Bremen. Pop. It is built on a tract of territory ceded to Bremen by Hanover in 1826, and further increased by treaty with Prussia in 1869. It forms practically a single town with Geestemunde (Prussia), which lies across the Geeste and with which it is con nected by a drawbridge. The port was opened in 183o, and its rapid development is due to the enterprise of Johann Smidt (1773-1859), burgomaster of Bremen. Besides an excellent har bour, there are large wet docks, including the Kaiserhafen. This, together with the north portion of the Neuerhafen, constitutes the free harbour. Here are the workshops and dry docks of the • North German Lloyd steamship company. The entrance to the port is ice-free nearly all the year round. Shipbuilding and kin dred industries are carried on; and there is a fishing industry, with fish-salting and smoking. The chief imports are cotton, tobacco, frozen meat, phosphates, copper and bananas. The exports are of a general character. Vessels that cannot reach Bremen lighten or discharge at Bremerhaven. In 1925, 964 ves sels, with net tonnage totalling 1,879,981, entered the port. The town has numerous fine public buildings. It forms an urban agglomeration (population about 1oo,000) with Wesermunde and its dependent units, Bremerhaven, Fischereihaven, Geestemiinde, Lehe, Speckenbiittel and Wuhlsdorf.