Rotterdam (Netherlands): Transporting 500.000 containers a year sustainably

Considerably before the execution of urban redevelopment projects involving the city and the port, it’s imperative to incorporate port access enhancements into the preexisting local urban mobility plans. This entails comprehensive strategies for the transportation of both individuals and goods via various transportation modes. Urban planners should possess knowledge about the prevailing construction regulations that pertain to shared roadways accommodating both port and urban transport, including factors like road width and traffic circle dimensions. Urban planners and port authorities of Zuid Holland noticed trucks created congestion in highways, such as A15, as they were coming from ports from the delta of the Rhine. This prompted the creation of the Container Transferium, which helped fix this problem by organizing containers at the end of the Rhine to be transported through vessels using the river.

This good practice also includes objective 2.3 (Committing the City Port territory to achieving a low carbon, low resources society, through the transformation of industrial production, and the production and management of carbon-neutral, renewable energies) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.