CMA CGM’s Jacques Saade is expected to arrive in Rotterdam for the first time Wednesday evening, 11 November. The container ship is also the first LNG-powered vessel with a capacity of more than 23,000 TEU...Read more
The Port of Rotterdam Authority is examining whether it would be realistic to expand its dredging activities in Rotterdam with water injection dredging. The study fits within the Port Authority’s PRISMA research programme, which looks...Read more
The Port of Rotterdam Authority and the national energy company of Iceland will investigate whether green hydrogen can be imported from that country. The Port Authority has been arguing for some time for investment in...Read more
Dutch and Belgian ports will set up a single shore-based power system for inland shipping and the river cruise industry. The Port of Rotterdam Authority has published a European call for bids to find a...Read more
Hutchison Ports Netherlands, parent company of container handling company ECT, can takeover the container terminal APM Terminals Rotterdam. This has been decided by the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).Read more
The City of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are jointly earmarking 125 million euros to make port operations more sustainable. The money will go to projects for shore power for seagoing vessels, a...Read more
De Haas Rotterdam (DHR) is restarting its current shipyard at RDM West. In addition to the site around the (former) boat hoist, the nearby site of approximately 2 ha will also be put into use....Read more
The Dutch Drone Delta has carried out a pilot in which a package was delivered by means of a drone to the inland container ship Duancis. At the time of delivery, the Duancis was sailing...Read more
ECT, the largest container transshipment company in the port of Rotterdam, has to contend with an ‘enormous increase’ of criminals entering the site to remove hidden drugs from containers. This is stated in a newsletter...Read more
Boudewijn Siemons (56) has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Port of Rotterdam Authority as of 1 October 2020. He succeeds Ronald Paul in this role.Read more
A 500-metre stretch of the Amazonehaven port basin at Maasvlakte Rotterdam will be deepened from 16.65 metres to 17.45 metres. This is to ensure that in terms of nautical accessibility, the ECT Delta Terminal continues...Read more
It will remain quiet in the Dutch cruise terminals this year. A total of 282 seagoing cruise ships were supposed to dock in Amsterdam, IJmuiden and Rotterdam in 2020. Instead there were 11. That seems...Read more
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority is investigating how the port can become less dependent on Asia and China in particular. Currently 73 per cent of the containers come from this continent. Due to the Covid-19...Read more
Cruise ships are still anchored and it looks like they will stay that way for some time to come. However, the first bookings for next year are trickling in. The Rotterdam cruise terminal expects to...Read more
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam decreased by 9.1 per cent in the first half of the year compared with 2019, amounting to 218.9 million tonnes. Container throughput was only 3.3 per cent down on...Read more
The port of Rotterdam will start testing container handling with a new app. The application uses blockchain technology and replaces the current PIN code with a less fraud-sensitive digital signal. It should make container handling...Read more
With the departure of container ship Marseille Maersk, a new draught record for container ships has been reached in the port of Rotterdam. The ship that sailed from the Princess Amaliahaven to Malaysia had a...Read more
The world’s largest container ship has arrived in Rotterdam. The HMM Algeciras is on its maiden trip and called at Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) in Amaliahaven on the Second Maasvlakte to transship containers.
The Algeciras is the...Read more
The “sulphur sniffing” drone the Dutch Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) wanted to purchase will not be available for some time to come. The drone was to be used to monitor ships’ sulphur emissions...Read more
