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Press Releases

Innovation

Press Release09 July 2020

Port of Rotterdam to start trial with PIN-free container handling

Secure Container Release: a new application which replaces the PIN code with a digital signal: a solution that is significantly less susceptible to fraud.
Energy transition

Press Release07 July 2020

Air Liquide and Port of Rotterdam Authority: hydrogen road transport

Air Liquide and the Port of Rotterdam Authority announce the launch of a jointly created initiative, which aims at enabling 1,000 hydrogen-powered zero-emission trucks on the roads connecting the Netherlands, Belgium, and West Germany by 2025.
An accessible port

Press Release02 July 2020

Festive opening of extra truck parking spaces at Maasvlakte Plaza

The Maasvlakte Plaza truck stop recently gained another 210 parking spaces. Thanks to this expansion, Maasvlakte Plaza now has 567 spaces, making it the largest secure truck stop in the world.

News

Arrival and departures of cruise ships

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Insights

Read about recent innovations, the latest news and inspiring interviews.

Digitisation

Insight03 July 2020

DistriRail: ‘As a transport firm, we want to be easy to find via digital channels.’

For rail operator DistriRail, a subsidiary of the Van Donge & de Roo Group (D&R), digitalisation forms an important means to maintain and strengthen its competitive position. Over the past few years, the company has made substantial investments in the optimisation of its IT programme.
Insight26 June 2020

Exceptional growth in export of tree logs from port of Rotterdam

The growing supply of dead wood has led to a huge increase in European container exports. Since 2018, around 180,000 ha of German woodlands have been lost to drought and the advancing bark beetle. This wood is exported to China from various ports, including Rotterdam, on a large scale.
Digitisation

Insight30 April 2020

Container shipping company ONE continues using PortXchange following successful trial in Rotterdam

Following a successful trial using the port call optimisation tool PortXchange, container shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) will continue to use this digital platform in the future to make its port calls to the port of Rotterdam as efficient as possible.

Columns

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Events

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Agenda

Showcases

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Press Releases

Port of Rotterdam to start trial with PIN-free container handling

Air Liquide and Port of Rotterdam Authority: hydrogen road transport

Festive opening of extra truck parking spaces at Maasvlakte Plaza

News

MoU signed for development Biohub Port Sarawak in Malaysia

Kloosterboer starts construction of Cool Port II

American unit with 80 helicopters to return home via Rotterdam

Arrival and departures of cruise ships

Insights

DistriRail: ‘As a transport firm, we want to be easy to find via digital channels.’

Exceptional growth in export of tree logs from port of Rotterdam

Container shipping company ONE continues using PortXchange following successful trial in Rotterdam

Columns

Brazil: the story of resilience and solidarity

The unfortunate truth: Indonesia’s new normal is without tourism

‘Russian economy hit twice by covid and decreasing oil prices’

Events

Showcases

Seven building blocks for the port of the future

Flower turbine delivers more energy per square metre than solar power

Drive on bioethanol from Rotterdam

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