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the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has taken in delivery the first phase of the new harbour area Maasvlakte 2
The work has lasted five years. The terminals of APM Terminals and RWG will become operating at the end of 2014
April 17, 2013
Today the consortium COUGAR, constituted from the Dutch Boskalis and Van Oord ( on December 17, 2007 and 27 February 2008), it has delivered to the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam the first phase of the new harbour area Maasvlakte 2, which lasted work five years that - it has emphasized the authority - are realized in the previewed times, second the provisional costs and second the project detailed lists. The consortium has realized industrial areas for 700 hectares, harbour areas for 560 hectares, 11 kilometers of outer dam, 3,5 kilometers of docks, 24 kilometers of roads and 14 kilometers of railway lines.
In the first phase of the new area, than the Port of Rotterdam Authority it is realizing with an investment of 1,9 billion euros, will install own terminals terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk ( on 22 June 2006) and the Rotterdam consortium World Gateway (RWG), that it is participated with 30% from the terminalista group DP World of Dubay, with 20% from each of the shipowning societies APL, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and with remaining 10% from the French shipowning society CMA CGM ( on 17 September 2007). According to the forecasts, the two terminals will become operating at the end of the next year.
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