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The City Council of Amsterdam officially approved the ‘Westpoort Noise Dispersion Plan’. The zoning plan divides the available noise zones in the Westpoort section of the Port among the plots of land located in the area.

A new report by the World Energy Council the Netherlands (WEC) underpins once again that the North Sea will play a crucial role in the energy transition of North West Europe. The call for clean energy in Europe is increasing, and the North Sea will be crucial in the search for efficient routes that enable the large scale energy transition required to meet the Paris goals.

Port of Amsterdam was awarded an LME certification this week by the London Metal Exchange (LME). From now on, Amsterdam is listed as a goods delivery point for aluminium, aluminium alloy, lead, nickel, tin and zinc.

Port of Amsterdam and NWB successfully lobbied Platts in order to have this difference eliminated, and Platts has since announced that deliveries in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp axis will no longer be subject to separate rates effective 1 May 2018.

In 2017, the river cruise business generated over half a million passenger visits for the ACP region. This provided revenue of more than € 206 million and added value of more than € 87 million. The sector accounts for 1,690 jobs in the ACP region. This was revealed by the analysis carried out by the research firm Decisio for Amsterdam Cruise Port (ACP).

Feadship has celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its fourth shipyard, located in a prime water-side location in the heart of Amsterdam. In the presence of invited guests, the first concrete was poured into the giant dry dock, part of an impressive feat of engineering involved in building such a facility in a city that is several metres under sea level. When completed at the end of 2018, the yard will also include a giant hall for building new superyachts of up to 160 metres in length along with refits of existing Feadships.