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Rotterdam appoints COO

Berte Simons has been appointed chief operating officer of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, joining the Executive Board and succeeding Boudewijn Siemons, who was appointed chief executive  and interim COO in February. She currently works at Energie Beheer Nederland as director of the CO2 Storage and Transport Systems business unit and is closely involved in the Porthos project, which the Port of Rotterdam Authority is developing together with Gasunie and ... [+]

Boxes are bright spot as Rotterdam traffic shrinks

Rotterdam’s container throughput increased 3% in terms of weight to 101.1 million tonnes and 2.2% in volume terms to 10.4 million TEU in the first nine months of 2024, said the port authority. The rise occurred against a background of a 0.4% decrease in total traffic in the same period ... [+]

Strong first half for Antwerp-Bruges, Rotterdam stays steady

Total throughput of Port of Antwerp-Bruges was 143.2 million tonnes in the first six months of 2024, an increase of 3% compared to 2023. The upward trend started in the first quarter and was driven by increased demand for container transport, but is now extending to other traffics, despite ongoing ... [+]

Rotterdam and partners create ‘uncrackable’ internet connection

A consortium consisting of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Q*Bird, Single Quantum, Cisco, Eurofiber, Portbase, Intermax and InnovationQuarter say they are the first in the world to build a scalable quantum internet connection, in Rotterdam harbour. A trial setup demonstrated that the use of quantum technology can prevent unauthorised access ... [+]

New chief for port of Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has appointed Boudewijn Siemons as its new chief executive. He succeeds Allard Castelein, who took leave of the Port Authority last summer, since when Siemons has served as interim chief executive. The executive board of the port authority now consists of Boudewijn Siemons (CEO and ... [+]

Rotterdam launches closed loop for containers

The Port of Rotterdam officially commissioned the Container Exchange Route (CER) on the Maasvlakte was officially commissioned on 28 November. The 17-kilometre-long closed road network currently links the container terminals of Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG), the Delta terminal of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam, QTerminals Kramer Rotterdam and the State Inspection ... [+]

Rotterdam traffic falls away

Throughput at the port of Rotterdam was 6% less In the first nine months of 2023, at 329.9 million tonnes compared to 351.0 million tonnes in the same period in 2022. The decline was mainly due to a decline in containers and coal. Throughput of iron ore and scrap, agricultural ... [+]

Green light for bigger Rotterdam berth

Port of Rotterdam Authority and Rotterdam World Gateway has announced a plan to expand the Prinses Amaliahaven on the Maasvlakte. The scheme will add about 45 hectares to the existing 100ha and 920 metres of quay wall and will increase RWG’s capacity by 1.8 million TEU in phases, with the first ... [+]

Rotterdam boxes reduce

The Port of Rotterdam handled 1.5% less freight In the first quarter of 2023, than in the same period last year. In total, 111.7 million tonnes were handled compared with 113.4m tonnes in the same period in 2022. The fall was mainly concentrated in the container and breakbulk segments. Throughput ... [+]

Tonnage standstill masks big changes in Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam freight volume in the first nine months of 2022 was almost the same as last year at 351 million tonnes (+0.3%) but container traffic decreased, especially as a result of the loss of trade with Russia. Considerably higher volumes of coal and LNG were also imported as ... [+]