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Rotterdam Maritime Cluster

F3. Seafaring Life, Education, Professions and Institutions

Definition

Dutch port-city service hub.

The maritime concentration at Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe’s largest port and a hub for bunkering, refining, container and bulk handling, and offshore and dredging engineering. It groups the Port of Rotterdam Authority, shipowners and operators, Damen ship repair, the Rotterdam bunker range, the Rotterdam Mainport Institute MET school, and maritime law and survey services. Rotterdam handles the largest petroleum and bunker volumes in Europe and connects to the Rhine for inland barge trade.

Source: Port of Rotterdam Authority; ARA (Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp) bunker-range references.