Why Rotterdam Is the Biggest Port In Europe

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[vincentlugthart]

Rotterdam’s other massive advantage is the very small tidal range, ie the difference in water level between high and low tides, generally no more than 1.5m. That makes every part of the port accessible 24 hours per day, requires no locks and allows simpler quayside infrastructure. This tidal range is much less than Antwerp (up to 5m) meaning many ships there need to lock in and out - which takes time.

[mixkula]

to improve your videos, add some maps for illustration

[adriandunne]

There is a ship canal between Rhine, the Main and the Danube which enables small river ships to go as far as the Black Sea. Many very large cargo ships cannot enter some ports because of their size and the largest cannot go through the Suez Canal or even the new Panama Canal but must go via South Africa.

[danieltabrizian]

I want to add, throughout these years i have noticed something about the Netherlands. Its always the infrastructure provider to stuff built upon it. It might not seem at first, but everything europe if you look deep enough somehow depends on them.

Schiphol airport being one of the biggest in europe
Rotterdam being the biggest port
The infra throughout the country is a posterchild example
Most servers for europe are located here
Asml provides the infra for chip production
The list goes on and on

[johanjansen]

Nice video! To add, its also part of the history. The Netherlands is already trading for centuries.

[Squizie]

The port of Antwerp lies much more inland than Rotterdam, but that's not a weakness as stated, but a strength in a whole lot of domains, especially transshipment. You cut 2x100 km of driving time for the loads of containers, and replace it by a single ship sailing more inland. Thats why in terms of container traffic, the Port of Antwerp handles quite similar volumes as Rotterdam. Rotterdam excels on other things, where they have better inland connectivity: bulk goods that are shipped on inland waterways, and oil that can just be piped anywhere cheaply. Both fill their own roles given their respective connectivity strengths and weaknesses

[oldtabrough]

It would be nice if u can use maps and animation to explain certain points in your video, esp international viewer like me from Asia, who can't really visualize why Rotherham is so important

[danieloehler]

Talking about the Rhine and Germany: The biggest inland port in Germany is Duisburg, the second one is Karlsruhe (thanks to oil shipments).
The Rhine is the only access by ship from Switzerland to a sea port.
The connection to Austria is rather bad. The canal between Rhine and Danube has many locks. And the Danube is not alway deep enough.
The freight line for trains is called Betuwe Line. The connecting project in Germany, a third track between the Betuwe line and the Rhine-Ruhr zone is delayed and will be completed maybe somewhere after 2030.

[HessionDrasha]

Mainly because it's near the mouth of the rhine/danube corridor. There are also canal connections to the seinne and the rhone, in france. Paris, lyon and marseille. The three largest french cities are on this network.

[wuciwucci]

Great and informative video. Thank you. When countries cooperate with mutual trust, they can trade smoothly and trade can make everyone better off. Just a little suggestion with regards to the video, if I may, that it would be appreciated to use the metric unit only whenever distance/measurement is involved, as (1) most UN-registered countries (>98%) used it officially, hence it is what nearly all of people in the world are familiar with, (2) Youtube audiences are worldwide. It would be nice to follow English-spoken videos that are addressed for international audiences as English is still the de facto worldwide's language today, (3) having worldwide standard units allow consistency & ease of understanding, just like most people in the world use 'hour', 'minutes', and 'seconds' for time measurement.

Best regards,

[Maarten-yh]

The images from minute 1:20 to 1:30 are from ANTWERP's Noordzee Terminal, not Rotterdam. LOL😅

[AntalBencze-xw]

During my time in the German merchant marine (Hamburg America line) we often visited Rotterdam The port was a 24 hour port. They worked fast.
One of the biggest advantage Rotterdam has that the closeness to the German industrial center the Ruhr.The Dutch are hard working people
without false illusion how to get rich.

[BeInnovativeToday]

The Dutch are smart! They worked for centuries to be a hub of ocean trade!

[Ese_osa]

Good content… man spent the first few minute making me know why I need to listen to this content

[completeamsterdam]

The port and architecture is sure impressive!

[Yahmanoah]

I’ve always taken an interest in Rotterdam’s prowess as a port since watching a documentary in the year 2000 and one of the most fascinating things mentioned was that the port was fully automated. This is the best presentation since then. Thought J would have seen more gantry cranes though. Nevertheless thanks for the info.

[dominiquejeangille]

On the Rhine Bonn is insignificant for Cargo... Ludwigshafen home of BASF the biggest chemical pant in the world, or Frankfurt (via a tributary) are much more relevant to the traffic on the Rhine.

[wow]

Is the voice AI? Just out of curiosity

[samtal-]

Perfect i love NL coz i can see on time +1

[ssjgohan]

This is a pretty terrible video. If I click on a video like this, I expect the most relevant facts of the matter to be presented, and to be presented in a succinct and comprehensible way. Your script is full of weird sentences ('put into simple words' what?!) and completely forgets to mention centuries of trading relationships, decades of investment into transport links into the EU's largest industrial centers by volume and naturally safe location deep into a shallow, narrow-access sea channel. It's not even that you asked ChatGPT for a script, because if I try that it at least includes some of those factors.