Port Of Rotterdam Houses About 4,500 Containers Having Connections With Russia
The Russian-linked shipping containers are being kept aside for a thorough inspection to verify that they do not breach the imposed sanctions.
The Russian-linked shipping containers are being kept aside for a thorough inspection to verify that they do not breach the imposed sanctions.
First-moving ports in Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea initiate an ambitious real climate action partnership with the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority will start a pilot on regulations and traffic control in the so-called ‘very low-level airspace’ to ensure that increased drone traffic over the Rotterdam port area is coordinated properly.
Heerema and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are proud to announce that Heerema Marine Contractors’ largest crane vessels, Sleipnir and Thialf have officially switched from using their engines to using shore power.
At Maasvlakte 2, 55ha of land is being raised for companies that make renewable fuels and chemical products. Marine engineering company Van Oord has recently started with the project.
The conflict in Ukraine has prompted the European Union and other bodies to impose a number of sanctions on Russia. At the current time, these are only having a rather limited impact on the port of Rotterdam.
62 million tons of the almost 470 million transhipment in the port of Rotterdam is Russia-oriented.
Throughput in the port of Rotterdam in 2021 matched the pre-pandemic level of 2019. Almost all goods types were up on last year; one of the sharpest rises was the increase in the throughput number of containers.
On the site of C. Steinweg – Handelsveem B.V. (Steinweg) Beatrix terminal in Eemhaven area near Rotterdam, a pilot project with a mobile facility for shore-based power on hydrogen for Cargow’s MPP (Multi purpose) vessels arriving twice a week is set to begin in late 2022.