Ports - Touristic Guide

 Rotterdam it is the second town of the Low countries (after Amsterdam), situated in the province ofSouthern Holland. Therefore Rotterdam it is a Netherlander and Dutch town. The town has the largest port of Europe, placed on the shores of the river Nieuwe Maas. The name Rotterdam derives from that of a dam (decameters) on a small river, the Rotte, that it is united to the Nieuwe Maas in the heart of the town.
 Rotterdam it has the largest port of Europe, that serves from point of passage for the goods in this part of the world. From 2004 the Asian ports like Singapore and Hong Kong ripped him the position of first port of the world. In 2005 Rotterdam it had the seventh port to the world in limits of container (TEU) managed.
 Very important for the port are the industry petrochemical and the general management of the freighter. The port works like important point of pass for first and other matters assets, between the European continent and the other parts of the world. From Rotterdam the goods are transported with ships, river barges, railroad and on road. From 2000 it is in construction the Betuweroute, a swift railroad for goods, from Rotterdam to the Germany. The queen Beatrix it has open this railroad to May 2007. Large refineries find themselves to west of the town. The rivers Mosa and Rhine supply also an excellent access to the hinterland.

 In the first half of the XX century the harbor activity moved themselves from the center of the town verse the North Sea. Was excavated the Nieuwe Waterweg, a channel to decongested the shallow Mosa and Rhine. The Nieuwe Waterweg was ready in 1872 and all of the industrial types of activity formed themselves on the shores of this channel.
 The territory of the port of Rotterdam it has stretched with the construction of the Europoort complex (door towards the Europe) long the outlet of the Nieuwe Waterweg, and near the Maasvlakte in the North Sea, in the crowds of Hoek van Holland. The planning of a according to Maasvlakte it was political object of discussion in the years 1990, since partially would have been finance by the government. The construction started in the summer of 2004.