Tag: Port of Rotterdam

Port of Roterdam says that no longer physical Customs document is required to transfer containers from one Maasvlakte terminal to the other. The participating terminals APMT, ECT and RWG have made agreements with the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration 0n ‘paperless transfer’ system which considerably reduces the administrative workload – particularly for shipping lines. The initiative simplifies the exchange of containers between terminals.

Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced that at ExxonMobil,construction has started for the new Hydrocracker,an investment of more than one billion dollars.

The container shipping alliance 2M – formed by Maersk Line and MSC – published the new shipping schedule for its Europe-Asia route today. And the changes have proven very much to Rotterdam’s advantage, with an extra first port of call position and an extra last port of call position in the itineraries of the largest vessels.

Titan LNG has managed the first de-bunkering of a LNG powered inland waterway barge: the Greenstream in the Dutch port of Moerdijk. The procedure was executed in close collaboration between Amulet Management & Services, Cryonorm, Titan LNG and the Port of Moerdijk with support from the Port of Rotterdam.

In the European continent, the Alps form a natural barrier for international transport. Containers can be transported to Southern Germany, the Czech Republic or Poland cheaper as well as more sustainably via North European ports than via Southern European ports.

J. (Rob) Witte, DGMR advised how to reduce ‘’Noise in Ports’’ during the 2016 GREEN4SEA Conference & Awards. He explained that moored seagoing vessels produce sound that can be perceived as annoying by residents living near harbours. The number of complaints in the Rotterdam Port Area is on average 250/year on this subject

What do a Gorinchem-based biobased ingredients company, two power companies and the port have in common? The joint development of a biorefinery in the port of Rotterdam. The partners Corbion, Uniper, RWE and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are going for a ‘quadruple win situation’.

A joint approach is necessary to safeguard the future of the refinery, chemical and energy cluster in Rotterdam and Moerdijk. This industry is important to the Dutch economy, but is under pressure. An action plan proposes a scheme to optimise the existing industrial activities and to further modernise the industry cluster.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority is going to redirect approximately 4km of the port (or first) section of the Betuwe Route. As a result, the railway line will no longer run over the Caland Bridge, so that shipping and rail traffic will cease to get in each other’s way from 2020 onwards. It will also bring an end to all the noise nuisance caused by the rail track near the village of Rozenburg.