The Port of Rotterdam signed a contract with a construction consortium last year to extend the Botlek Tank Terminal (BTT) [HES interest 50%] site by approximately 5 ha.
This will double the area occupied by the existing terminal, allowing the total storage capacity to be expanded from 200,000 to approximately 750,000 m3. The extension to the site will be accomplished by land reclamation. The newly reclaimed land will be handed over to BTT in two phases and the work will take a total of 21 months to complete.
This video shows DEME’s trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Breughel’ at the start of the reclamation works enlarging the Botlek Tank Terminal in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Dredging Today Staff, June 11, 2013