On May 10, Port of Amsterdam awarded the contract for the realization of shore power at Cruise Port Amsterdam (CPA) to Powercon A/S and with BAM as subcontractor. Both the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management and the European Commission granted subsidies for this project.

The development of hydrogen has acquired the European status of Hydrogen Valley in the province Noord-Holland, the region announced today.

Amsterdam was included in the S&P Global Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings for ethanol in April 2016. Giving Amsterdam’s ethanol market a tremendous boost.

Mid-March we decided, together with the Amsterdam-Amstelland Safety region, that river and sea cruise ships are no longer welcome in the port until further notice. The reason for keeping cruise ships out of the port is to minimize the risk of further contamination of the coronavirus.

In order to limit the spread of the coronavirus as much as possible, employees of Port of Amsterdam will be working from home as much as possible from 13 March until at least 31 March. This is in line with the measures announced by the Cabinet on 12 March.

The updated website of Port of Amsterdam is live. This website runs on a new technique which makes it much easier for us to make smart tools, APIs and services available to our relations and customers via the website. Because better services, that's what it's all about.

In recent months, the corona crisis has also reached the new sea lock in IJmuiden. Appropriate measures had to be taken. OpenIJ started taking measures at the construction site at a very early stage.

In the coming months, the eastern part of the northern flood barrier will be constructed, the threshold will be connected to the inner courtyard and the lock chamber will be dredged.

The new sea lock will be completely dredged out and all this sand will have to go somewhere. How does this work? What are they doing with all this sand? Arjan Kroot, site manager of the lock complex, explained the working techniques used on the construction site.

Good cooperation is important, especially with the construction of the new sea lock. Jordy Husslage, Head of Operations at Port of Amsterdam, knows all about it.