Tour of the port of Rotterdam

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The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam

The port of Rotterdam


We want to experience the port of Rotterdam on a harbor tour. Even if this is not by the sea, this gives us an impression of one Holland vacation by the sea. Our ship casts off right next to the Erasmus Bridge, which looks like a harp. The sun shines from the sky and the wind blows around our noses as we set off for the Atlantic. We want to take a look at Europe's largest container port. The sea lies twenty-five kilometers from the Downtown Rotterdam .

 

 

The journey to the port of Rotterdam goes past waterfront promenades and houses. These look like they have been repainted. Like us Simone von www.nach-holland.de insured, that's true in most cases. Because Rotterdam has dressed up a lot. On the other side of the river - the Meuse - there are skyscrapers. What I like best is a construction made of cubes with gaps through which the wind whistles. This building made of cubes looks unusual, almost as if Lego bricks were not put together correctly.

 

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Harbour Cruise
Harbor tour through the port of Rotterdam

 

Round trip in the port of Rotterdam

It doesn't take long before our boat sails past apartment blocks where social housing can be seen. The people wave to us friendly from the bank. A few meters behind this, the facilities in the port of Rotterdam begin with their dry docks and the warehouses for the fruit and vegetable deliveries from around the world. A noteworthy shipyard is a replica of a wooden ship. Not far behind there is one shipyard after the next. A ship on which a crane indicates that it is being used to build the oil platforms in the North Sea is particularly impressive.

 

 

The MS Rotterdam
The MS Rotterdam in the port of Rotterdam

 

Permanently at anchor: the “Rotterdam” in the port of Rotterdam

Back towards the city center of Rotterdam we pass the container port where the metal containers are layered on top of each other. It looks motley here. We wonder about containers that have apparently seen better days. Before we set course again for the Erasmus Bridge, our excursion boat makes a dangling past the “Rotterdam”. It is the largest cruise ship that was once in the Netherlands was built. It then crossed the Atlantic for years on its voyages to North America. Today it has found a home in the port of Rotterdam and serves as both a hotel and an event location.

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Skyscrapers of Rotterdam
Skyscrapers at the port of Rotterdam

 

Impressed by the impressions of the world of seafaring with its merchant ships, container depots, shipyards and construction vessels used to construct and maintain the North Sea oil platforms, we return to the starting point of our boat trip, the Erasmus Bridge. This was a trip that gave us a taste of the port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands has mediated.

 

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Source: Research in the port of Rotterdam. However, our opinions remain our own.

Text Port of Rotterdam: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
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Tour of the port of Rotterdam

Monika Fuchs

Monika Fuchs and Petar Fuchs are the authors and publishers of the Food and Slow Travel blog  TravelWorldOnline. They have been publishing this blog since 2005. TravelWorldOnline has been online since 2001. Their topics are trips to Savor, wine tourism worldwide and slow travel. During her studies Monika Fuchs spent some time in North America, where she - partly together with Petar Fuchs - traveled to the USA and Canada and spent a research year in British Columbia. This intensified her thirst for knowledge, which she satisfied for 6 years as an adventure guide for Rotel Tours and then for 11 years as a tour guide for Studiosus Reisen around the world. She was constantly expanding her travel regions, but curiosity still gnawed at her: "What's beyond the horizon? What else is there to discover in this city? Which people are interesting here? What do they eat in this region?" As a freelance travel journalist (her articles have appeared in DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, etc.), she is now looking for answers to these questions as a travel writer and travel blogger in many countries around the world. Petar Fuchs produces the videos on this blog as well as on YouTube. Monika Fuchs from TravelWorldOnline is among Germany's top 50 bloggers in 2021. Find more Information about Monika and Petar Fuchs here.