In a recent video, CCO Jeroen Zwijnenburg of Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals (RST), reveals his ambition for RST to become the best in class shortsea terminal in Europe within a few years.
Rotterdam’s Waal-Eemhaven is home to Europe’s largest shortsea cluster, the City-terminal. Combined with the high concentration of cooperating (shortsea) terminals and shortsea service providers, the cluster guarantees fast and reliable transport and transhipment of goods within Europe.
Rotterdam also offers the largest network of feeder services connecting to international liner services and a direct connection to deep-sea liner connections with more than 140 international ports.
Indispensable in this cluster is Rotterdam Shortsea Terminals, Europe’s largest hub for dedicated shortsea shipping, with a capacity of over one million TEU per year
said the Port of Rotterdam.
One of RST’s key strengths is its location; forty kilometres inland, in the heart of the port of Rotterdam and close to important hubs connecting to the hinterland.
There is an internal connection to Rotterdam’s largest rail terminal (Rail Service Centre Rotterdam- RSC). And the A15 motorway is literally around the corner.
This excellent location and the tri-modal connection via rail, road and inland waterway are essential for efficient and fast handling. As is the wide variety of destinations; RST is an important hub for North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), UK & Ireland, Scandinavia and the Baltics
The terminal handles containers for around 20 shipping companies, including Samskip, BG Freight, Containerships, Eucon and Unifeeder. “Every week we connect around seventy ports in 18 European countries. The frequency is high; on average there are 50 to 55 departures,” explains Jeroen Zwijnenburg, CCO at RST.
Equally important is the high degree of flexibility and the high level of service. “Those ingredients make us the reliable partner our customers have been counting on for years, and are the basis of our growth,” Zwijnenburg added.
