Tag: Port of Rotterdam

Switzerland's Rhine ports lifted around 105,000 TEU last year, thereby setting a new record for shipside container imports/exports. Together with the import/export boxes that were carried by rail, the Rhine ports' terminals handled a total of 117,535 containers in 2013

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has put into use three public lay-by berths for feeder and short sea ships on the Maasvlakte. This will save shipping companies valuable fuel and time in particular.

Port Authority sponsors sustainable shipping in 2013 with 3.5 million According to the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) the Olympus, a product tanker of the Swedish shipping company Sirius Rederi, is the most sustainable ship to arrive in the port of Rotterdam in 2013. The tanker scored highly on this index of 2354 ships on a worldwide level as well. There the ship occupies fourth position worldwide, with 65.7 points. With 78.3 points the LNG tankers Al Marrouna Al Areesh and Al Daayen from Teekay Shipping are the most sustainable ships sailing the world's seas.It is the third time that the Port Authority - one of the initiators of the development of the ESI - has awarded the prize for the most sustainable ship. In 2011 vehicle carrier Morning Carol won the prize, in 2012 it was container ship Cosco Pride and now it is the Olympus. In 2013 the Port Authority invested approximately 3.5 million in sustainable shipping by sponsoring ESI and the Green Award Foundation. Ships which score well in this certification system receive incentives valued at around five percent of the port tariffs payable.Olympus' sustainable performanceThe Olympus is currently moored in the Port of Rotterdam. She arrived this ...

Never before, anywhere in the world, have nine Super Post Panamax container cranes been delivered at the same time in a port by the builders. Seven were built by ZPMC and two by Kalmar, all in China.

Port of Rotterdam: A year in review

The Boskalis vessel the SMIT Elbe in the port of Rotterdam has become the first tugboat in the Netherlands to be fuelled with Shell GTL.

On Saturday 14 December, something unique happened at the Gate terminal in Rotterdam. For the first time, two LNG carriers were moored at the same time in the Nijlhaven. The presence of the Ben Badis and Arctic Aurora is representative of a striking recovery in LNG throughput in Rotterdam.

Porto Central : a joint venture of TPK and the Port of Rotterdam

Strabag Nederland started constructing the quay for Container Transferium Alblasserdam this month. The grooved-in quay is 255 metres long and recessed 30 metres on the Noord river.

Two projects in Sweden have been considered sufficiently important to merit inclusion in the EU list of infrastructure projects that are of common interest for the European Union (PCI, Project of Common Interest).