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Port of Rotterdam

The port of Rotterdam is the largest port

Port

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in Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, located in the city of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam ; city and municipality in the Netherlands province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people in the country, with a population of 584,046 on 1 January 2007 and comprises the southern part of the Randstad, the List of metropolitan are...
, South Holland

South Holland

South Holland is a Provinces of the Netherlands situated on the North Sea in the western part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is The Hague and its largest city is Rotterdam....
, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
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The port of Rotterdam is the largest port

Port

||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|}A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake....
in Europe

Europe

Rotterdam

South Holland

Netherlands

World's busiest port

The world's busiest port is contested by several ports around the world, as there is as yet no standardised means of evaluating port performance and traffic....
, now overtaken by Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
n ports like Singapore

Port of Singapore

The Port of Singapore refers to the collective facilities and container terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in Singapore's harbor and which handle Singapore's shipping....
and Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....
. In 2006, Rotterdam was world's sixth-largest container port in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) handled.

Covering , the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of . It consists of the city center's historic harbor area, including Delfshaven

Delfshaven

Delfshaven is a borough of Rotterdam on the right bank of river Nieuwe Maas, in South Holland, the Netherlands. It was a separate municipality until 1886....
; the Maashaven/Rijnhaven/Feijenoord complex; the harbours around Nieuw-Mathenesse; Waalhaven; Vondelingenplaat; Eemhaven; Botlek

Botlek

The Botlek originally was the name of a stretch of the Nieuwe Maas river, part of the Rhine-Meuse river river delta near the Netherlands cities of Vlaardingen and Spijkenisse in the province of Zuid-Holland....
; Europoort

Europoort

File:Europoort osm.pngFile:Satellite image of Europoort, Netherlands .pngFile:Europoort 01-04-2005 7.41.22.JPGEuropoort is an area of the Port of Rotterdam and the adjoining industrial area in the Netherlands....
, situated along the Calandkanaal, Nieuwe Waterweg

Nieuwe Waterweg

The Nieuwe Waterweg is a ship canal in the Netherlands from Scheur west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine....
and Scheur (the latter two being continuations of the Nieuwe Maas

Nieuwe Maas

The Nieuwe Maas is a river branch of the Rhine-Meuse delta in the Netherlands. It runs from the confluence of the rivers Noord River and Lek River, and flows west through Rotterdam....
); and the reclaimed Maasvlakte

Maasvlakte

File:Rotterdamse wijken-maasvlakte.PNGFile:Maasvlakte-europort.jpgFile:Toekomstbeeld Maasvlakte 2 2 G tcm81-32520.jpgThe Maasvlakte is part of the Port of Rotterdam and industry of the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
area, which projects into the North Sea.

In the first half of the twentieth century the port activities moved from the centre westward towards the North Sea

North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
. The Nieuwe Waterweg
Nieuwe Waterweg

The Nieuwe Waterweg is a ship canal in the Netherlands from Scheur west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine....
was dug from Rotterdam to the North Sea

North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
, a canal to disembogue the shallow Rhine and Meuse. The Nieuwe Waterweg was ready in 1872 and all sorts of industrial activity formed on the banks of this canal.

Rotterdam's harbour territory has been enlarged by the construction of the Europoort
Europoort

File:Europoort osm.pngFile:Satellite image of Europoort, Netherlands .pngFile:Europoort 01-04-2005 7.41.22.JPGEuropoort is an area of the Port of Rotterdam and the adjoining industrial area in the Netherlands....
(gate to Europe) complex along the mouth of the Nieuwe Waterweg, and by the Maasvlakte
Maasvlakte

File:Rotterdamse wijken-maasvlakte.PNGFile:Maasvlakte-europort.jpgFile:Toekomstbeeld Maasvlakte 2 2 G tcm81-32520.jpgThe Maasvlakte is part of the Port of Rotterdam and industry of the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
in the North Sea

North Sea

Hoek van Holland

The Hook of Holland , also known in English as the Hook, is a town in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is situated on the North Sea coast, on the north bank of the Nieuwe Waterweg ship canal....
. The construction of a second Maasvlakte received initial political approval in 2004, but was stopped by the Raad van State (the Dutch Council of State, which advises the government and parliament on legislation and governance) in 2005, because the plans did not take enough account of environmental issues. On October 10, 2006, however, approval was acquired to start construction in 2008, aiming for the first ship to anchor in 2013.

Most important for the port of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Petrochemical

Petrochemicals are chemical products made from raw materials of petroleum or other hydrocarbon origin. Although some of the chemical compounds that originate from petroleum may also be derived from coal and natural gas, petroleum is the major source....
industry and general cargo

Cargo

Cargo refers to goods or produce transported, generally for Commerce gain, by Cargo ship, Cargo airline, Train#Freight trains, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal freight transport long-haul cargo transport....
transshipment

Transshipment

Transshipment or Transhipment is the shipment of good to an intermediate destination, and then from there to yet another destination.One possible reason is to change the means of transport during the journey , known as transloading....
handlings. The harbour functions as an important transit point for transport of bulk

Bulk material handling

Bulk material handling is an engineering field that is centred around the design of equipment used for the transportation of materials such as ores and cereals in loose bulk form....
and other goods between the European continent and other parts of the world. From Rotterdam goods are transported by ship, river barge, train or road. Since 2000 the Betuweroute
Betuweroute

The Betuweroute is a double track freight railway from Rotterdam to Transport in Germany. Betuweroute is the official name, after the Betuwe area through which it passes, but the line is popularly referred to as Betuwelijn, after an older track in the same region....
, a fast cargo railway from Rotterdam to Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, has been under construction. The Dutch

Netherlands

Oil refinery

An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas....
are located west of the city. The river Meuse

Meuse River

File:01-Namur-290305 JPG.jpgThe Meuse , is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea....
and Rhine

Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
also provide excellent access to the hinterland

Hinterland

The hinterland is the land or district behind the borders of a coast or river. Specifically, by the doctrine of the hinterland, the word is applied to the inland region lying behind a port, claimed by the state that owns the coast....
.

The EECV-quay of the port has a draft

Draft (hull)

The draft of a ship's Hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull , with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained....
of 24 meters (78 feet), making it, along with Terminal Marítimo de Ponta da Madeira

Terminal Marítimo de Ponta da Madeira

The Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal, owned by mining company CVRD, sits next to the public port of Itaqui, in the state of Maranh?o, in northern Brazil....
in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, one of only two available mooring locations for the largest bulk cargo ship in the world, the iron ore

Iron ore

Iron ores are Rock and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in colour from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red....
bulk carrier

Bulk carrier

A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds....
Berge Stahl

Berge Stahl

The MS Berge Stahl is the largest bulk carrier ship in the world. She is registered in Stavanger, Norway. She was previously registered in Monrovia, Liberia....
. The ship's draft of 23 meters (75 feet) leaves only 1 meter (3 feet) of under keel clearance, therefore it can only dock in a restricted tidal-window.

Sister ports

Kobe port
Port of Kobe

The Port of Kobe is a Japanese maritime port in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area, backgrounded by the Hanshin Industrial Region....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
- 1967

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