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Topic: Maasvlakte


In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Maasvlakte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Maasvlakte is part of Europoort, the harbour and industrial area of the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
It was created in the 1960s by reclaiming land from the North Sea through dykes and sand suppletion.
The Maasvlakte is also a starting point of the Betuweroute freight railway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maasvlakte   (103 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The State, the municipality of Rotterdam and Port of Rotterdam have today concluded an agreement on financing for the construction of Maasvlakte 2, the plan to expand the port of Rotterdam.
Maasvlakte 2 will be able to welcome the largest of ships, whatever the circumstances.
Investments in the new nature and recreation area, the projects in the existing port area and the compensation for damage to nature caused by the construction of Maasvlakte 2 total almost EUR 500 million.
www.marinelink.com /members/fullstory.asp?ID=14767   (390 words)

  
 Maasvlakte 2 - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Maasvlakte 2 is the new port and industrial zone that is to be built right on the North Sea.
Customisation and flexibility based on the client’s requirements are paramount when it comes to fleshing out the details of Maasvlakte 2.
By repeating the same study when sand is extracted for Maasvlakte 2 and comparing the two sets of results, any effects of sand extraction can be identified.
www.maasvlakte2.com /en/home   (309 words)

  
 Cesar Zuiderwijk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later that year Zuiderwijk pariticpated in a one-time project called Labyrinth with jazzmusician Jasper van 't Hof and singer Julia Loko.
In September of 1992 Cesar saw one of his dreams come true when he joined thousands of other drummers to play Radar Love on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam.
In 1999 he was invited by War Child to teach kids in the Bosnian town Mostar to play drums.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cesar_Zuiderwijk   (378 words)

  
 Government.nl - Deal on construction of Tweede Maasvlakte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A deal has been struck on the Tweede Maasvlakte project, a major expansion of Rotterdam's harbour.
The agreement is made by the State of the Netherlands, the province of South Holland, the Rotterdam metropolitan region, the municipality of Rotterdam and the port authority (Havenbedrijf Rotterdam).
The project includes the construction of the Tweede Maasvlakte (including compensatory nature areas), the construction of 750 hectares of nature and recreational areas, and projects within Rotterdam's current city limits.
government.nl /actueel/nieuwsarchief/2004/06June/25/0-42-1_42-45298.jsp   (108 words)

  
 Maasvlakte, Netherlands Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
Maasvlakte, Netherlands Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
Maasvlakte on the West Coast is a fairly exposed beach break that has pretty consitent surf, although summer tends to be mostly flat.
At the moment, we display the current current weather observations / forecast for Maasvlakte, tide data, sea temperature and a growing list of Surfcams.
www.surf-forecast.com /breaks/Maasvlakte.shtml   (205 words)

  
 Rotterdam - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As of January 1, 1999 the municipality had an area of 30424 hectares (20861 land) with a total population of 600,000.
Rotterdam has by some accounts the largest harbour in the world, and it functions as an important transit point for goods transported between the European continent and other parts of the world: by ship, river barge, train and road.
The lay-out of a second Maasvlakte has since the 1990s been a subject of political debate.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Rotterdam   (962 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Rotterdam Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
As of January 1, 1999 the municipality had an area of 304 km² (209 km² land) with a total population of 600,000.
Rotterdam has the largest port in the world, which functions as an important transit point for goods transported between the European continent and other parts of the world: by ship, river barge, train and road.
Large oil refineries are located west of the city along the Nieuwe Waterweg.
www.ipedia.com /rotterdam.html   (1274 words)

  
 Agreement reached on funding for Rotterdam port expansion - Dredging News Online
The Dutch State, the municipality of Rotterdam and Port of Rotterdam have concluded an agreement on financing for the construction of Maasvlakte 2, the plan to expand the port of Rotterdam.
Maasvlakte 2 will be an excellent location, right on the sea, and with good hinterland connections.
That will be in time - in conjunction with the current increase in capacity on Maasvlakte 1 - to accommodate the ongoing growth in Rotterdam."Maasvlakte 2 will be constructed in the North Sea, immediately to the west of the current Rotterdam port area.
www.sandandgravel.com /news/article.asp?v1=4646   (469 words)

  
 C&EN: COVER STORY - EUROPE'S NEXUS
Maasvlakte was developed years earlier at the delta in the mouth of the rivers, particularly the Maas, flowing into the North Sea around Rotterdam.
The new project, Maasvlakte 2, will initially cover more than 1,200 acres; it is being designed to be doubled in the future.
When it starts up early in 2002, the plant will have capacity of 280 million lb per year of butanediol and, according to Lyondell, will be the lowest cost and the largest single-train butanediol unit in the world.
pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/7922/7922europe.html   (4503 words)

  
 Marintec Expertise B.V. | marintec.nl marintec expertise survey surveyors touw tauw maasvlakte rotterdam container ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wij zoeken iemand in de leeftijdscategorie van 25-30 jaar, die een MBO of HBO opleiding heeft afgerond.
Iemand die flexibel is ingesteld, in de omgeving van de Maasvlakte woont, in staat is zelfstandig inspecties uit te voeren en op heldere wijze kan rapporteren in zowel het Nederlands als Engels.
Someone flexible with the right attitude, living in the vicinity of the Maasvlakte, capable of doing independent inspections and writing reports with perspicuous arguments in Dutch and English language.
www.marintec.nl   (240 words)

  
 U.S. tightening port security - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
MAASVLAKTE, Netherlands —; Dockworkers are strangely absent behind the steel fence girdling Europe's largest container port.
In their place, hundreds of robot-run trucks and cranes shuttle among neat stacks of freight containers, making the terminal at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam one of the most automated, and seemingly secure, shipping centers in the world.
Yet security measures for port facilities and ships here and across the seven seas have lagged far behind the strict rules enforced at airports and on aircraft since the Sept. 11 attacks.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Jan/02/bz/bz04a.html   (1271 words)

  
 Power Engineering - E.ON plans 1100 MW Dutch power plant
E.ON already operates a 1100 MW coal-fired power station at Maasvlakte, which is currently being modernized.
The new power station will also have an installed capacity of 1100 MW and be able to cover about 7 per cent of Dutch electricity demand.
Maasvlakte is favourably located by Rotterdam's deep-water port and is therefore one of the best sites in Europe for a coal-fired power station.
pepei.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=249412&p=6   (273 words)

  
 Dutch Birding - Trumpeter Finch at Maasvlakte in May 2003
About the finding of a first-summer male Trumpeter Finch on 31 May 2003 at Maasvlakte, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
On 31 May 2003, a first-summer male Trumpeter Finch [Bucanetes githagineus] was observed at Maasvlakte, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands.
The bird was found at 09:00 and observed until c 16:00 and seen by many birders.
www.eurobirding.com /birdingmagazines/artinfo.php?id=7189   (193 words)

  
 Rotterdam - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Municipality As of January 1, 1999 the municipality had an area of 30424 hectares (20861 land) with a total population of 600,000.
Harbour Rotterdam has by some accounts the largest harbour in the world, and it functions as an important transit point for goods transported between the European continent and other parts of the world: by ship, river barge, train and road.
History and recent developments Rotterdam was given cityrights on June 7, 1340 by Willem IV.
www.questionz.net /SARS/Rotterdam.html   (1011 words)

  
 Deinsea 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Pleistocene and Holocene Mammalian assemblages from the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam (the Netherlands),
The Maasvlakte is an artificially created area on the North Sea coast near Rotterdam.
Analyses of their collection showed that the Maasvlakte assemblage could be divided into at least four different faunas.
www.nmr.nl /deins728.html   (281 words)

  
 Three consortia in race to build Maasvlakte 2 - Dredging News Online
Three consortia of dredging and construction companies have qualified for the construction of Maasvlakte 2 project at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The construction of Maasvlakte 2 will be tendered as a 'design and construct' contract, with two approaches sought to the way that the work could be carried out - a so-called basic solution and a 'total solution.'
The first covers the construction of the hard seawall (dyke), digging through the current Maasvlakte 1 seawall on a level with theYangtzehaven, the construction of the soft sea defense (artificial dunes) and the creation of Maasvlakte 2 itself.
www.sandandgravel.com /news/article.asp?v1=8795   (582 words)

  
 Gull Research Organisation
By 2002, sufficient data were collected for regression analyses on primary moult timing in 2cy herring gull, and research shifted to the partial autumn moult in 2cy herring gull, a subject not described yet.
Tie-wrapped and measured for the 2004 juvenile graellsii project at Maasvlakte.
From the very start of ORG, much emphasis was laid on descriptions of moult stage, timing and sequences.
www.gull-research.org /indexelements/organisation.htm   (1588 words)

  
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Under a contract of approximately US$18 million, GE Power Systems is supplying the gas turbine for the facility, to be located in the Maasvlakte industrial area of the Rotterdam harbor.
It will be owned and operated by Utilities Center Maasvlakte Leftbank B.V. of Voorburg, the Netherlands, a company of E.ON Benelux Services B.V., Rotterdam.
The Frame 6FA gas turbine will be manufactured at GE Power Systems' facilities in Belfort, France and will be shipped to the Maasvlakte site in May of 2002.
www.panapress.com /newswire.asp?code=127   (410 words)

  
 Maasvlakte 2
The Rotterdam harbour will need more space for expansion in the future.
That space, as has been decided, will be obtained in the form of a second Maasvlakte.
The government has defined preconditions that allow this land reclamation to take place in a phased manner.
www.rikz.nl /thema/werken_en_recreeren/maasvlakte_e.html   (134 words)

  
 The man with the mission presents:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hieronder de tekst van het artikel: Surfers Maasvlakte vechten voor hun strand.
Op een zonnige dag trekt het strand aan de Maasvlakte duizenden mensen.
Volgens Briellenaar A. Pheifer is het ondenkbaar dat de duizenden recreanten hun heil elders moeten zoeken.
members.aol.com /mpoethen/news.html   (1989 words)

  
 Simulation Of Shipping Traffic Flow In The Maasvlakte Port Area Of Rotterdam - van de, van (ResearchIndex)
Abstract: Developments in the port of Rotterdam will cause a great increase in shipping traffic in the Maasvlakte, which in its turn raises doubts about the perpetuation of a smooth flow of traffic in this port area.
The Rotterdam Municipal Port Management and the Delft University of Technology have therefore set up a joint research project to investigate the potential flow of shipping traffic in the Maasvlakte in the year 2010.
Ruit G.J. van de, Schuylenburg M. van, Ottjes J.A.; Simulation of shipping traffic flow in the Maasvlakte port area of Rotterdam.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /395134.html   (383 words)

  
 Power Engineering - E.ON to invest in its Dutch generation fleet
The first major project will see the company extend the lifetime of the Maasvlakte power station until 2022 while at the same time improving its environmental performance.
Located adjacent to the port of Rotterdam, the hard coal fired power station has a capacity of 1000 MW.
E.ON has recently acquired its first retail customers in the Netherlands with the purchase of NRE Energie in June this year.
pepei.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=240577&p=6   (208 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
Maasvlakte coal terminal (MCT), Rotterdam, Netherlands - Project description
This paper is a project description and status report of the projected Maasvlakte Coal Terminal (MCT).^Recent studies give a prognosis for the flow of goods through Rotterdam and this paper indicates the figures for coal transhipment.
www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6708855   (156 words)

  
 Maasvlakte 7 mei 2005 in scenery & nature photos on webshots
Maasvlakte 7 mei 2005 in scenery and nature photos on webshots
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 Programma
Theme lecture: 40 years in engineering geology - a review, prof.
Feasibility study for the Maasvlakte 2 land reclamation project, ir.
Theme lecture: Unseen circumstances jeopardise underground construction, prof.
www.itc.nl /~ingeokri/congres/Programma.html   (197 words)

  
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 DCSM model description
The model is suitable for large scale transport calculations and for generating boundary conditions for nested models.
Other aspects that can be computed with this modelinstrumentary are saltintrusion and scenario-studies such as the Rotterdam harbour extension project (Maasvlakte 2).
Operational prediction of water levels and storm surges, North Sea
www.netcoast.nl /tools/rikz/DCSM.htm   (195 words)

  
 maasvlakte holland europe surf spot, photos, WannaSurf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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