More than 500 scheduled liner services connect Rotterdam with over 1,000 ports worldwide. Many of the global container liner services only call at a limited number of European ports. Rotterdam is one of these, often as first and/or last port of call in Europe. From the port, feeder ships carry the containers by sea to smaller ports
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The port of Rotterdam is directly situated on the North Sea. The very largest ocean-going vessels can access the port unrestricted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The port has a depth of 24 metres (75 feet) and Rotterdam has no locks. The many maritime service providers guarantee rapid turnaround times.
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The port and industrial area stretches over a length of 40 kilometres and covers 10,000 hectares. Companies can find all imaginable facilities here for cargo handling, distribution and industry. A lot of auxiliary services are also on hand. Due to the size of the operations, the port offers significant advantages of scale. Rotterdam is, for example, Europeans cheapest bunker port.
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The European market is accessible from Rotterdam via five competing modalities: road, rail, inland shipping, coastal shipping and pipeline. Goods which arrive in Rotterdam in a morning can be in, for example, Germany, Belgium, France or Great Britain the same afternoon. One of the main advantages of Rotterdam is its location on the estuary of the rivers Rhine and Maas. As a result, efficient and economical transport by inland vessel is possible deep into the heart of Europe.
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The port of Rotterdam is investing continually to extend and improve its service. The most eye-catching project is the pending construction of Maasvlakte 2, a new port and industrial complex in the North Sea, with 1,000 hectares of industrial land directly on deep water and 750 hectares set aside for nature.
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