Port of Rotterdam
{{#badges: CoalSwarm |Navbar-Coalexports}}Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is operated by the Port of Rotterdam Authority.[1]
The port contains the following terminals that handle coal: EMO Terminal and Rotterdam Bulk Terminal, and Laurenshaven Terminal. Additionally, Marcor Stevedoring at the port makes use of floating cranes for the transhipment of coal; EECV stores and transships iron ore and coal destined for German steel producers; and Zeehavenbedrijf Dordrecht 70 kilometers inland stores and transships coal.[2][3]
Coal
About 24.1 million tonnes of coal is handled at the terminal annually.[4] In 2006 nearly 30 million tonnes of coal was moved through the port, mainly imports.[5]
According to the Port of Rotterdam website: "No other port [in Europe] tranships as much thermal coal and coking coal as the port of Rotterdam. The port of Rotterdam is not only a transhipment port of coal for power plants and blast furnaces in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, there are four coal-fired power plants in the port of Rotterdam area itself as well."[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Port of Rotterdam Authority
- Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Coal terminals: EMO Terminal, Rotterdam Bulk Terminal, and Laurenshaven Terminal
- Status: Operating
- Start year: 1999
- Type: Mainly coal imports
- Sources of coal:
Resources
References
- ↑ Top 50 World Container Ports. World Shipping Council
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Coal," Port of Rotterdam, accessed July 2015
- ↑ "Dry bulk companies," Port of Rotterdam, accessed July 2015
- ↑ "Port of Rotterdam," World Port Source, accessed April 2015
- ↑ Harold R. Newman, "The Mineral Industry of The Netherlands", 2006 Minerals Yearbook, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, May 2008.
