Tag: Port of Rotterdam

Following Stena Line’s earlier announcement, DFDS has made it known that will also increase services. From 3 October 2016, a fourth vessel will be deployed on the Rotterdam-Immingham route and there will be 14 departures a week.

The Port of Rotterdam has announced that seven inland vessels will be fitted with measurement instruments that allow them to record their on-board emission levels in the framework of an experiment conducted by COBALD.

The work on the steel structure of Rotterdam Cool Port, due to be completed in Q2 2017, has officially got underway. The aim is to achieve the 4 star BREEAM/NL Excellent certification upon completion of the facility.

During the World Port Days in Rotterdam, the Port of Switzerland and the Basel Logistics Cluster Region signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port of Rotterdam on the expansion of the trimodal infrastructure along Europe’s most important goods traffic corridor, the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa corridor.

A private-sector consortium headed by the chemical firm DSM will be performing a study into the possibility of a biochemical plant in Rotterdam.

In late September 2016, SAECS will be adding another call on Rotterdam to its schedule. This will make Rotterdam both the first and last port of call on this route, and will shorten the service’s Rotterdam-South Africa transit times by no less than six days.

Global logistics company Samskip has completed a major environmental protection project through subsidiary frigoCare, installing the largest solar panel system in the port of Rotterdam as part of its Sustainability Strategy.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has ordered a new inspection vessel, the RPA 8 which is equipped with hybrid propulsion. The main points of attention in the tender were the total costs over the entire life cycle of the ship, the reduction of emissions and the reduction of waves caused by the ship.

The new product tanker of the Swedish shipping company Terntank received the first Rotterdam 'LNG bunkering incentive', a premium amounting to a discount of ten percent on the seaport dues.