Cars were regularly parked on the breakwater at Haparanda Dam, even though this is not allowed.

Designation order on implementation regulations for fuels, additives and energy sources North Sea Canal Area

For bunkering methanol by a bunker ship, it is necessary that the berth, as a location where this can take place based on substantiated external safety calculations, should be designated on the basis of the North Sea Canal Area Regional Port Byelaws 2023.

The data required to be submitted pursuant to the Regional Port Byelaws for the North Sea Canal Area 2023 of the Amsterdam, Beverwijk, Velsen, and Zaanstad municipalities shall be reported in the manner set out in Table 1. Table 1 is included as Appendix I to this Decree.

To designate berth AM USA in the Amerikahaven as a location where methanol may be bunkered by a bunker ship, as indicated on the map annexed to this decree.

At Siciliëweg in the Amsterdam port, Granuband processes all kinds of used car tires. As one of the early pioneers in the circular industry, we wanted to find out how they're doing now. Maarten van Randeraat, founder and director at Granuband, and his colleague Marco Alderlieste, General Manager, gave us an update: “We’re ready to accelerate, but legislation and regulations are holding us back.”

The story of Milieuwerk began in 1992, with the aim of giving people from Amsterdam’s Spaarndammerbuurt a fair chance at meaningful work. Electrical appliances from across the city were collected and sorted at Milieuwerk, just outside Amsterdam. Today, the company is located in the Port of Amsterdam and employs 120 people who, as David Jansen (41), Director of Milieuwerk and the Recycling Service Centre (RSC), puts it: “struggle to find or keep a job on their own.”

A ruling by the Dutch Council of State on December 18, 2024, has further tightened nitrogen regulations—also affecting businesses in the Amsterdam port area. Entrepreneurs who emit nitrogen near protected nature areas (Natura 2000) will now more often have to meet additional conditions for new projects, even if they already hold a nature permit.

Rijkswaterstaat has determined that the new salt barrier in IJmuiden affects water discharge through the spui- and pumping Complex in IJmuiden more than initially expected.

On Monday, March 10, the new offshore installation vessel from Dutch company Van Oord arrived at TMA Logistics in the Port of Amsterdam. To reach its destination, the massive vessel—175 meters long and 63 meters wide—had to navigate through the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden, an impressive sight. In Amsterdam, the final outfitting and commissioning work will be completed before the Boreas departs for its first offshore wind project. So far, the Boreas is the widest vessel to have passed through the IJmuiden Sea Lock.