Tag: Port of Rotterdam

UASC has launched the first LNG-ready ultra large container carriers (ULCCs) in the world. UASC’s initiatives and the port of Rotterdam’s ambitions for sustainability complement each other perfectly.

As of 1 February 2016, the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam will switch to Vessel Notification 2.0 which will allow easy reporting of sea-going vessels, laying the digital basis for handling traffic flows even more efficiently and safely.

Unilever intends to reduce the CO2 emissions of its logistics chain by 15 to 20 percent by working with transport companies that use LNG. Unilever relies on sea-going vessels and inland vessels for the transport of raw materials and finished products to and from the group’s 250 plants

At the bunkering port in Rotterdam, the sales of low-sulphur gas oil and diesel almost tripled in 2015 compared to the previous year; from 0.7 to 1.8 million m3. The increase is due to the more stringent sulphur requirements for maritime shipping in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. With 10.6 million m3, the deliveries of all bunkers – fuel to the maritime shipping sector – remained at the same level as in 2014.

Goods throughput in Rotterdam increased by a total 4.9% to 466.4 million tonnes in 2015. This significant growth is almost entirely attributable to the increased throughput of crude oil and oil products.

In 2015, no fewer than 51 very large crude carriers (VLCCs) discharged and/or loaded fuel oil in the port of Rotterdam. That is 22 more of these ‘giants’ (200,000-320,000 tonnes deadweight) than last year, and 12 more than in the record year of 2012. Last year, a total of around 28.3 billion litres of fuel oil was shipped from Rotterdam.

From 1 January 2016 sea-going vessels will be able to dispose of unlimited plastic ships’ waste free of charge in the ports of Rotterdam Rijnmond and the North Sea Channel district.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority announced an additional incentive programme that will provide seagoing vessels that bunker LNG with a 10% discount on gross seaport dues.

  The construction of Maasvlakte 2 has been recognised by the award of the prof. dr. ir. J.F. Agema prize, which is awarded every five years to an innovative marine engineering work that was designed or constructed by a Dutch party. This prize, the initiative of the KIVI (Royal Institute of Engineers), goes to the entire team of client, designer and contractor. In the case of the Maasvlakte 2 project, the winning team includes the Port of Rotterdam Authority and contractors Boskalis and Van Oord, as part of the PUMA consortium. Crowning achievement The winner was announced on 10 November during the Waterbouwdag (Water Management Day) 2015 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Maasvlakte 2 was nominated for the award together with four other marine projects. ‘Cooperation between the client and the consortium resulted in many innovative solutions for design, execution methods and survey techniques, such as the hard seawall, a combination of a block dam of recycled concrete blocks and a cobblestonebeach. The Maasvlakte 2 project also focused on sustainability in design, layout and execution. For example, a borrow area near the coast was selected from those available to save energy and reduce emissions,' says Dirk Hamer, former Project Director of ...