ROTTERDAM PORT MAP FULL

The ticket kiosk is at the jetty beneath the Erasmus Bridge.Vopak Terminal Europoort is part of Vopak Energy Terminals Netherlands, which is a large scale independent oil hub terminal in the Port of Rotterdam with VLCC access to handle crude and the full spectrum of petroleum products. Of December Ticket price for the 75-minute tour There is also a car park (address for sat navs Lines D or E and alight at Leuvehaven or thke the tram 7 and alight There are also day tours that are over 7 hours long but you’d have to book those in advance. There are longer port tours in the summer months (July and August) that last about 2.5 hours. This one runs all year round and gives a nice overview of the port. We participated in the short port tour (75 minutes). I see the special charm of the port in everything and get excited when another ship passes ours. I get a glimpse of an unknown world that I am really interested in. Passing those would make the Spido boat look like an ant next to an elephant and it would have been even more impressive.įor me, as a landlubber, this boat tour of the port of Rotterdam is quite special. And they say these are only the smaller ships! The really big ones lie further out at the Europort and Maasvlakte. It is impressive to look up and all the eye can see is the hull of the ship. And we even pass the massive container ships with our not exactly small Spido boat. We spot massive cranes to move shipping containers. Then we enter the docks of the port of Rotterdam. I am fascinated by a futuristic-looking cruise ship terminal that I would like to visit when we are back on land. Even the Euromast Tower is visible from the boat. I was simply overwhelmed and much rather directed my entire focus to the fantastic world that is the port of Rotterdam.įirst, we pass some familiar sights, the Hotel New York and the ss Rotterdam. Most of it was very interesting, but to be honest, I stopped listening after about half an hour. A prerecorded tape in four languages provided an ongoing flood of information as we went along. The tour is about 75 minutes long and we depart right on time. The boat tour of the Rotterdam port begins We quickly make it to the most popular spots along the boat’s railing. We decide to brave the weather for the time being and to start out on deck. The great advantage of the iconic Spido boats is that one can escape the weather and sit under a roof.

I am curious to see if the tour and what we get to explore lives up to the ship’s name after the great explorer. Just before 11 am we walk onboard the Marco Polo. This weather isn’t great to take pictures on a boat tour. It is cold and the clouds are hanging low. We stand on a Spido boat jetty underneath the Erasmus Bridge in suboptimal weather. A boat tour of the port is only scratching the surface of what’s to see in this massive space. The harbour area stretches out over 40 kilometres from Rotterdam’s city centre to the sea. The seaport of Rotterdam is the third biggest on the planet. What is missing from this list? A boat tour of course. We toured the city and visited the Cubic Houses and the Market Hall, we strolled through the tunnel under the river Meuse and viewed the city from above from the Euromast Tower. There is a lot to explore on a trip to Rotterdam.

Rotterdam port map