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New Rotterdam Docks Change Dutch Coastline
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/n...utch-coastlineThe Rotterdam Port Authority expects the first ship will unload its cargo along a quayside of the new Maasvlakte 2 docks in a year and a half.
The Maasvlakte 2 project is an extension of the port of Rotterdam, which will see the construction of a new port and supporting infrastructure on about 2,000 hectares of reclaimed land adjoining the Maasvlakte, an earlier extension of the Netherlands' biggest port.
The first ships to dock at Maasvlakte will bring the material needed to complete the terminals. APM Terminals and Rotterdam World Gateway are scheduled to start the first phase of construction soon.
Upon completion APM Terminals will have 1.000 metres of quayside at its disposal for ocean-going vessels as well as 500 metres for inland shipping. RWG will have 1,150 metres and 500 metres respectively.
Queen Beatrix will on 11 July give the official starting signal for the closure of the seawall of Maasvlakte 2. The operation will permanently change the outline of the Netherlands. The Rotterdam port will increase 20 percent in size and the Dutch coastline will move about 3.5 kilometres further out into the North Sea.
Maasvlakte 2 will include 1,000 hectares for port-related industries. Euromax , a subsidiary of Europe Container Terminals has an option on 400 hectares. A Rotterdam Port Authority spokesperson said “The remaining 600 hectares will be partly made ready, but only fully completed when we know what companies will be located there.”
They've been working on the second Maasvlakte for a while now, pretty much the largest land reclamation project that's been carried out in NL since Flevoland was poldered in. The scale of the whole thing is impressive; One of the harbours is specifically built(20m deep) for super deep ships like the Berge Stahl, and the area will have its own (cargo) train station connecting it with the more inland harbour areas and the hinterland.
Next the rest of the north sea!
Expect resintance from the south of your border....Originally Posted by Victis Honor
We'll cut you a deal on some nice beach front property
And I want my own private gun range !!!We'll cut you a deal on some nice beach front property
God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands
To give you guys an idea of the scale we're talking about: The purple and blue areas are the second Maasvlakte development. The area to its immediate east is the 'first' Maasvlakte, the first set of reclaimed harbour areas, 'built' in the 60's. For a comparison, Flevoland, the last large scale reclamation project is slightly over 1400 sq. km big, but the entire Zuiderzee/ Lake Ijssel project took around 75 years and included the building of the Closure Dike (which is what made the Flevopolders possible in the first place) The creation of the polders that made up Flevoland itself took about 25-30 years. Construction on the Second Maasvlakte started in 2008, so we've gone from nothing to having the first ships dock in about five years. One has to wonder how quickly something the size of Flevoland could be built with the level of technology and engineering acumen existing today.
Shut it or we will close the schelde:P
Careful, I can see your house from here...
That goes both ways.
Be careful. If you reach the nordic oilfields, Russia and the US will knock on the door.
Ah yes, they seem to have a lot of soil....soil we need to fill in our little North Sea polder project. Hmmmmm......Be careful. If you reach the nordic oilfields, Russia and the US will knock on the door.
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