Yesterday, the vessel The Great Casablanca from the Grimaldi Group docked for the first time in the Port of Amsterdam. This impressive Container/RoRo ship is 250 meters long, 38 meters wide, and has no fewer than 12 decks. It boasts a loading capacity of 4,000 cars and 2,000 containers.

The Prince Willem-Alexander Lock will be closed to shipping traffic from February 28 to March 4, 2025. In extreme weather conditions, Rijkswaterstaat will move the blockage to the period March 7 to March 11, 2025. Shipping traffic will use diversion routes during the blockage.

Due to an ongoing legal dispute over the future use of ADM Westhaven, we are unfortunately forced to decommission the car drop-off area.

Some skippers indicated that it would be helpful if the Westport numbers public wharves could be found on our website. For example, in case of emergencies or if they get a visit from BV and mechanic.

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

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.