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Pre Arrival:  Overview | Location | Charts | Limits   ...
Communications:  Pratique | Pre-Arrival | VHF | VTS/Radar
Berthing Ops:  Tugs | Berths | Mooring
Cargo:  Breakbulk | Bulk | Containers | Cruise | Tankers   ...
Pollution:  Ballast | Pollution | Slops
Facilities:  Medical | Water | Fuel | Chandlery | Storing   ...
Security:  Police etc | Emergency | Fire | Security   ...
Local Info:  Weather
Report:  Report

Summary

Max. Size:  Breakbulk:  Depth 16.6 m. (tidal). Containers:  Depth 19.6 m. (tidal). Ro-Ro:  Depth 12.6 m. (tidal). Bulk:  Depth 23.6 m. (tidal). Tankers:  Depth 24.6 m. (tidal). Gas:  Depth 21.6 m. (tidal).
Fuel:  All grades.
Airport:  Rotterdam Int'l, 6 km. Amsterdam Int'l, 70 km.
Repairs/Drydocks:  Graving dock 405 x 90 x 11.6 m.
Medical:  Facilities available.
Rotterdam
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NLRTM

Also known as Hook of Holland
Also see Schiedam and Vlaardingen
OVERVIEW:  Large multipurpose port and Europe's largest container port, with excellent inland connections by water, road, rail and pipeline.
The port of Rotterdam is a Core port in the North Sea-Baltic, North Sea-Mediterranean and Rhine-Alpine Corridors in the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network.
LOCATION:  32 n.m. south of Amsterdam, on the Nieuwe Waterweg and Nieuwe Maas.
CHARTS:  Digital: NL3NZ100, NL4EG120, NL5HD100, NL5HV100, NL5RD110, NL5RD120, NL5RD130 and NL6RD111.
Paper: BA 110, 122, 207, 208, 1406, 1408 and 1630.
US 37162, 37166, 37241, 37242 and 37244.
Publications:  NP28, Dover Strait Pilot.
PORT LIMITS:  The nautical supervision of the Port of Rotterdam Authority covers the following areas:
  • Eurogeul and Maasgeul, approach area and anchorages
  • Nieuwe Waterweg and Nieuwe Maas up to Km. 991.5
  • Oude Maas up to Km. 998
  • Dordrecht
  • Papendrecht
  • Schiedam
  • Vlaardingen
  • Rotterdam
DOCUMENTS:  On entering the Netherlands territory (12 n.m.