BREAKING NEWS: Van Oord wraps up Prinses Amaliahaven dredging

Van Oord’s dredging work in the Prinses Amaliahaven on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam has been completed. The harbor basin has been deepened to 20 meters below sea level.

During the peak of the work, 3 Van Oord vessels were working at the same time, turning the port orange-blue:

• cutter suction dredger Biesbosch, and

• LNG-powered trailing suction hopper dredgers Vox Apolonia and Vox Alexia.

The dredged sand was partly reused in the adjacent Prinses Alexiahaven, where Van Oord is working on a 45-hectare land reclamation project.

The dredging works are part of the development of the Prinses Amaliahaven.

Together with consortium partners HOCHTIEF and Ballast Nedam, Van Oord is constructing 2 deep-sea quays, an inland shipping quay and some earth-retaining walls.

According to Van Oord, the development will potentially increase annual throughput capacity in the Port of Rotterdam by four million standard containers (TEU).