ROTTERDAM – EUROPE’S PORT GIANT FOR WASTE MATERIALS HANDLING
August 1st, 2011
BY MINDY RAN
ROTTERDAM is already Europe's largest port and hence of importance for the import and export of waste materials from and to the European Union (EU) and this role is to strengthen.
For Rotterdam, the world's fourth largest industrial port, behind China's Shanghai and Ningbo, then Singapore, already utilises 26,000 acres, of which 12,500 acres are commercial sites and 13,500 acres water docks, rail lines, roads and pipeline zones. In 2010, 430 million tonnes of cargo were handled in the port.
And it will get larger. Under the authority's 'Draft Port ...
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