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Rotterdam is a major port city in the Dutch province of South Holland. The Port of Rotterdam is the operator of the port, Europe’s largest.

EU awards nearly € 25 million in funding to ‘green port project’ Rotterdam

An international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly € 25...

APM Terminals agrees divestment of APM Terminals Rotterdam to Hutchinson Ports

APM Terminals (APMT) and Hutchison Ports are pleased to announce that Hutchison Ports Netherlands B.V., a subsidiary of Hutchison Ports, has signed an...

H2Gate: towards transhipment of 1 million tons of green hydrogen in the Amsterdam port

Port of Amsterdam and tank storage company Evos aim to import large volumes of green hydrogen into the Amsterdam port, according to the company’s release...

Port of Rotterdam sees total cargo traffic down 6.9% in 2020

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) February 21, 2021 – In the year 2020, the Port of Rotterdam recorded total cargo traffic of 436.8 million tonnes,...

Uniper and Port of Rotterdam Authority start feasibility study for green hydrogen plant at Maasvlakte

Uniper and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are investigating the possibilities of large-scale production of green hydrogen at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam....

WPCAP ports take new series of climate change actions

“A force for good, paving the way for building sustainable port operations”. Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, used a concise...

Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals to be sold to investors

Rotterdam, The Netherlands, January 18t, 2021 – Crestline Investors, Inc., a global institutional private capital investment management firm, and Blue Ocean...

Rotterdam port plans increased shore-based power supply

Rotterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) October 15, 2020 – The Municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have announced a jojnt plan to...

Hydrogen Council expands membership with new sectors and geographies

Hydrogen Council Expands Membership With New Sectors and Geographies as Governments Rely on Hydrogen for COVID-19 Recovery Brussels, 27 July 2020 – The...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited – Container throughput Q2 2020

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 15, 2020 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has reported June 2020 container throughout for its terminals together with...

Air Liquide and Port of Rotterdam launch partnership to foster hydrogen-powered trucks and infrastructure

Air Liquide and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have announced the launch of a jointly created initiative, which aims at enabling 1,000 hydrogen-powered...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports reports container throughput down 3.7% in May

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) June 16, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for May 2020, which records total...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd records near 5% fall in container traffic in March

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for March 2020, which records total...

Rotterdam Port Community Steering Group is working on port continuity during COVID-19

News Update – Port of Rotterdam – April 7, 2020 The port of Rotterdam, including associated logistics and industry, has been designated a vital...

EU authorises the sale to Terminal Link shares of CMA CGM in port terminals

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 21, 2020 – The European Commission has approved the transaction whereby the French shipowning group CMA CGM...

COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd sees big fall in February 2020 container throughput

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 17, 2020 – In February 2020, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd handled a global total of 14.52 million TEU, down 12.2% on the...

Rhine-Alps corridor looks to a hydrogen-powered future

News Release – Climate-neutral Rhine-Alps Corridor – Port of Rotterdam – January 31, 2020 Seventeen parties have today taken the first step...

CMA CGM signs binding deal with China Merchants Port to sell ten port terminals to Terminal Link

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) December 23, 2019 – CMA CGM Group, a global shipping and logistics group, has announced that it has signed an agreement...

Letter of intent for sale of APM Terminals Rotterdam to Hutchison Ports

APM Terminals has signed a letter of intent for the sale of APM Terminals Rotterdam to Hutchison Port, which owns the adjacent ECT Delta terminal, located in...

Bournemouth University launches SPEED, part of a European funded Interreg 2 Seas project

Bournemouth University is using Wazoku’s idea management platform, Idea Spotlight, to power the stakeholder engagement in the SPEED project, a major...

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