Due to a shallow patch at km 20 (east of the Coentunnel), the Director of the Central Nautical Management has set temporary draught restrictions for ships with dimensions (L*B) of 90*45 m (Capesize) and 235*33 m (Panamax) that have to pass km 20.

Your guide to business in the port of Amsterdam.

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 Amsterdam port is a real city port: a mix of shipping, businesses and city life. You'll come across all that on this route. You'll cycle from the cultural free port of NDSM to a shipyard and to a climate-neutral new housing estate.

Length: 5 km

You'll find the current Lock Schedule in MyPort. The lock planning procedure can be found on this page.

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.