maasvlakte-2

Rotterdam reclaims 2,000 acres

The Dutch coastline changed forever on 11 July when Queen Beatrix symbolically completed a massive land reclamation project as part of the Maasvlakte 2 development. At slack water contractors Boskalis and Van Oord closed the gap in the eleven-kilometre long seawall. President and CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Hans Smits, declared: “After 3.5 years of hard work, today we reached a major milestone. The seawall around Maasvlakte 2 ... [+]