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Scale model of the hard seawall





Scale model of the hard seawall

Protect the port against the very highest waves coming in from the northwest. That’s what the seawall at Maasvlakte 2 is intended to do. It’s an offshore block dam: a very cost-effective, low-maintenance design. How does a dam like this work, and why are block dams that are constructed in the sea so effective? Watch the videos, study the scale model, grab an information sheet and find out for yourself. Allow us to lift a corner of the veil: this dam incorporates no less than 19,000 blocks. And they’ve all been positioned individually – one by one; around the clock.

 

Willow mat

Weaving flexible willow stems into sturdy mats, hundreds of metres long: it’s an age-old technology. And this quintessentially Dutch technique was also used for the foundations of the Maasvlakte 2 port basins. Willow mats continue to be the most effective, sustainable and environmentally-friendly option. The video explains why we need these mats, and shows how they are woven and submerged.

 

Photo timeline

On 1 September 2008, Mayor Opstelten opened the valve that started spraying on sand for Maasvlakte 2. This marked the official start of construction of the second Maasvlakte. The project’s progress is best seen from the air. This photo wall shows the steady realisation of 20 square kilometres of new port area – indeed, a whole new part of the Netherlands. An amazing expansion of the port of Rotterdam, by no less than 20 percent!

 

Filmzaal (niet voor UK versie!)

Our Film Hall presents a variety of short clips about the history and development of Maasvlakte 2. For example, in his video, Bram explains to viewers of all ages why Rotterdam actually needs a second Maasvlakte. And Loes Luca goes from one surprise to the next when she pays a visit to a dredging vessel during the construction of the new port area. Sebastiaan Labrie has made a 20-part series about the construction of Maasvlakte 2 for TV Rijnmond, while documentary maker Stephan Warmenhoven spent a decade filming the preparations for and realisation of Rotterdam’s newest port area. In other words: our Film Hall offers a varied and interesting programme of informative videos. And if you don’t feel like spending too much time in the dark today – no problem. You can also buy a DVD copy of the films at our reception desk.

Yangtze Hall

Visit FutureLand’s exhibition hall for the latest temporary exhibition. Of course, whatever the exhibition focuses on, you can count on it giving you all sorts of interesting new information about Europe’s most hi-tech port. Why not drop by – and prepare to be amazed!

 

Mammoth Corner

The sand that was used for the construction of the second Maasvlakte has been around for a while. In fact: it’s already been through a few ice ages. At that time, the water of today’s North Sea was still trapped in the polar ice caps. Our present-day seabed was one huge steppe. If you wanted to, you could walk all the way from Rotterdam to London – although this was before these cities were built, of course.

So what would you have found on this dry land? Mammoths, to start – but also woolly rhinoceroses, cave hyenas, wild horses, bovines, steppe wisents, hippos, giant deer, mice, beavers, otters: it was a regular prehistoric zoo! Although you wouldn’t find all these animals living here at the same time. Hippopotamuses and forest elephants lived in this region when it was a great deal warmer than it is today – a long time ago, in other words.

In the display case, you will find fossil remains of animals that once lived in the area now covered by the North Sea. Here, you can see the femur, pelvis and tusk of a mammoth bull. If this colossal animal were actually standing in this room, it would bump its head against the ceiling.

Almost every day, visitors to the second Maasvlakte’s new beach – also known as Mammoth Beach – come across new fossils in the sand. The best time to look for fossils is when the tide’s out. Or you can take a guided tour of the beach with fossil-hunting old-timer Walter Langendoen. He will teach you how to recognise wet molars and bones or petrified hyena droppings. And if you find anything yourself, you can report it with the Oervondstchecker app. The publication Schatten van het mammoetstrand offers all manner of background information on fossils, prehistoric animals and the development of the North Sea region. (schuine tekst niet in UK versie)

 

Digital Map of the Port

The Port Information Centre regulates shipping traffic in the port of Rotterdam – much like the airport control centre regulates air traffic. The monitor allows you to view current ship movements in Rotterdam in real time. Vessel traffic controllers work around the clock under the direction of the Harbour Master to guarantee safety conditions in the port. Every year, they make sure that some 30,000 sea-going vessels and 110,000 inland vessels can move swiftly and safely through Rotterdam. This means that they keep close track of an average of 380 vessels a day.

 

Drop de Box + Willem de Waterbouwer

Loading and unloading containers with a giant crane… Anyone who thinks that’s an easy job, should try it themselves! Seat yourself in the crane operator’s cab and move the container from the truck to the ship. Without causing any damage, of course! And you have 90 seconds to do it – although in real life, you have to do it quicker than that. Show us how good you could be at the job!

As a dredging master, you suck sand from the bottom of the North Sea and spray it along the shoreline to build a new port site. Sounds simple enough, but first you’ll need to know how to operate one of those huge trailing suction hopper dredgers. Here, you can find out whether you’ve got a knack for this work.

 

Emma Maersk

[Informatiebord bij maken!]

This is the Emma Maersk. Not too long ago, she was the world’s largest container ship. With a length of 397 metres and a width of 56 metres, the Emma Maersk is a so-called E-Class vessel. It can transport over 14,000 20-foot containers at a time. In addition to the Emma Maersk, seven other E-Class container ships were also launched around 2006.

Between 2013 and 2015, these giants were joined by another 20 ships in the Triple-E Class. Even though Triple-E’s are only 3 metres longer and wider than the Emma Maersk, this still allows them to transport no fewer than 3,500 extra containers. Just by a more clever layout of the ship. What’s more, they can not only load more containers on board, they also consume less fuel. This effectively halves carbon emission levels for each container transported by these ships.

Both classes of Maersk ships regularly call on Maasvlakte 2’s Amaliahaven. But the biggest ships in the world? By now, the Triple-E’s have had to surrender this title to even larger contenders.

 

Film carrousel

Whatever you’d like to know about the preparations for Maasvlakte 2, or the construction of the new port area: the clips can all be found in this video carrousel. Touch the screen to choose which clip you’d like to watch. The annual overviews show the different stages of the port area’s development. Bram’s video explains why it was necessary for Rotterdam to expand. The television series with Sebastiaan Labrie fills you in on various aspects of the project: from the rainbowing on of sand to the port’s importance for the Dutch and European economies. You can tag along with Loes Luca when she hops on board a trailing suction hopper dredger. Or you can join Filemon Wesseling when he’s playing with gigantic dice behind the controls of the Blockbuster.

Is it too much to watch all in one go? The videos are all available on DVD at our desk. So if you like, you can take one home to enjoy from the comfort of your couch.

 

Future Flight Experience

The second Maasvlakte will allow the port of Rotterdam to grow and renew itself in the decades ahead. So what could this new port area look like in 2035? Find out for yourself by taking a bird’s eye view! Enter the Future Flight Experience and experience it with your own eyes. Use the large touchscreen monitor to fly to whatever you would like to check out – be it a container terminal, a wind turbine, the recreational beach or even below the water’s surface. Just step on the hover-board and fly into the future.

Globe

Your shoes, your purse, your phone, your clothes: it’s quite likely that a lot of the stuff you’re carrying with you actually arrived in Europe in a container. In fact, these items probably came in via the port of Rotterdam before ending up in the shop where you bought them. Take a seat under the globe and see for yourself how most of the trading across the globe relies on shipping. When you look at it this way, Rotterdam’s decision to create new room for future cargo seems quite logical. After all, we probably won’t stop buying stuff, will we?

While supplies last: Maasvlakte 2 reference works (niet voor UK versie!)

Every year, we rounded off another year of construction at Maasvlakte 2 with a special magazine. These publications offered hundred-and-twenty-eight pages of beautiful photos, interesting trivia, special interviews and a wealth of details and background stories about the area’s actual construction. All in all, we produced five of these Magazines, and together with two documentaries, they form the ultimate reference work about the realisation of the most modern port in Europe. We’ve collected them in a sturdy cassette, which we are now offering in a limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies. Feel free to inquire at our reception desk if you are interested in purchasing a copy.

 

 

Souvenir table

Films, books, reference works, cuddly ducks and mammoths, postcards, boots, slippers and bath towels: the Maasvlakte 2 shop has a whole range of interesting gift items. And the shop also sells gift vouchers: feel free to ask at the desk. Incidentally, most items are also available online. To visit the webshop, go to futureland.nl.

 

 

Stereoscopes

Thanks to these stereoscopic images of the hi-tech fully-automated container terminals on the other side of the water, you can actually imagine you’re there in person. Don’t forget to push the button to bring up the next picture.


 

 

Red carpet with VIPs

Apparently, the construction of a whole new port area – in an area where the sea used to have an average depth of 17 metres – appeals to people’s imagination. Because Maasvlakte 2 has had no lack of interest. Since FutureLand first opened in 2009, the centre has welcomed an average of 110,000 visitors a year. The video clips show some of the people who have already paid a visit to FutureLand. The Dutch king and queen, for example! Step on the red carpet yourself and feel like a regular VIP.

 

Interactive scale model

Take the wheel and become lord and master of the Maasvlakte 2 construction project. The scale model shows you how quickly the new port area is growing year by year, and how the sea is gradually tamed. The joysticks on both sides of the model allow you to move through the area with a small boat. And if you manage to hit a hotspot, you’ll be rewarded with extra information.

 

Mind the Gap

After all the sand needed for the construction of Maasvlakte 2 had been carried in, it was time to close the last gap in the seawall. Due to the typical Dutch weather on that fateful day in 2012, it was uncertain until the very last minute whether Queen Beatrix would actually succeed in doing so. Play Mind the Gap yourself! Will you manage to close the seawall on time?

 

Dredging finds

When you extract sand from the North Sea floor, the sea bed turns out to contain the most wonderful surprises. This tour presents our various finds in chronological order. Because that’s how time works too: the most recent treasure lies on top. So first the bombs, and then the bones. Take a trip back in time and come face to face with a great white shark. Oh well – one of its teeth, at least…

Bij: 2 x flessen met briefjes

Message in a bottle

Imagine you’re working as a contractor on the construction of Maasvlakte 2. And then one morning, a message in a bottle pops up in your latest haul of sand. Forget about Facebook or Twitter: this is a handwritten note that’s been rolled up and put in a bottle. Seal it with a cork and hey presto: you’re done! And it actually arrives too: not on one, but two occasions! A long letter written by two friends from Ens in the Noordoostpolder, who are about to go to secondary school for the first time. The other bottle contains 20 wishes written by French-speaking schoolchildren. Too nice to leave out of the exhibit, wouldn’t you say?

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Bij: Bom

Dumping bombs

During the Second World War, allied bombers returning from night-time raids over Germany often still had bombs on board. To increase their chances of landing safely on a British airstrip, it was standard procedure to dump any remaining explosives in the North Sea first. During the construction of Maasvlakte 2, over sixty years later, the contractors had to stop dozens of times to remove a shell that had got stuck in the dredger’s suction tube. No small thing for the crew of the dredging vessels! These bombs were then detonated at a safe distance by specialists in a controlled explosion.

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Bij: Autocannon

Mysterious Viking ship

These three strake planks were found while extracting sand for Maasvlakte 2. They come from a modest-sized vessel. The notches in the bottom suggest that they were used in the construction of a clinker-built boat. To construct the hull, the builders used wooden pegs to fix the planks to the ship’s timbers in a tile pattern. The wood has very thin growth rings, which suggests that it comes from northern climes. Could these be the remains of a Viking ship? After all, the Vikings came from Northern Europe and made clinker-built vessels. However, research has shown that the wood dates from 1670 or later. This rules out a Viking ship. But even though it’s not Norse, the origins and age of the vessel remain shrouded in mystery.

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Bij: Baardmankruik

Who was Bartmann?

From the 15th to the 18th century, the Cologne area was centre of production of stoneware jugs known as Bartmann jugs. These decorated jugs were mainly used to store water and other liquids and transport them throughout Europe. We even know that the Dutch East India Company used them to store mercury. These water-tight, glazed jugs owe their name to the bearded man (or Bartmann in German) depicted on the neck. It may represent a wild man: a theme that appeared on a variety of items in preceding centuries. According to another theory, the face represents God himself. The overall shape of the jugs goes back to Roman times. This example was retrieved in 2011 from the sand extracted for the construction of Maasvlakte 2. Experts date the jug somewhere between 1625 and 1675.

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Bij: Zaden, vuurstenen, botresten

Dune-top campfire

During the Stone Age, today’s North Sea was still a long time coming. A lot of water was still trapped in the polar ice caps and had yet to thaw. As a result, sea levels were lower, and the future site of Yangtzehaven was a river delta dotted with higher-lying dune tops. The hunter-gatherers who travelled through this landscape knew that these dune tops were safe and dry, and a good place to set up camp. These items testify to such a stay. The charcoal and charred bone fragments clearly point to human activity: people have been grilling meat here. And the shards of flint indicate that they had been making tools too: probably arrow tips or spearheads to hunt small game. And the collection of charred and unburnt nutshells shows that people in the Stone Age supplemented their diet with nuts. And perhaps they made a beverage to go with them, from the roasted blackthorn drupes also found at the site...

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Bij: Heupbot mammoet

Oyster

The perfect dish for a romantic get-together over a glass of champagne: oysters. And they’ve been around for ever. These oysters, for example, are exactly the same as the ones that are still harvested in Zeeland today. But with a venerable age of some 120,000 years, one thing’s for sure: they weren’t enjoyed with a glass of bubbly.

Common whelk

The common whelk, or Buxinum undatum, is another mollusc that’s been around for many thousands of years. You can still find them today on the beach of Maasvlakte 2, either alive or in fossilised form, like this one.

Rough cockle

The rough cockle – Acanthocardia tuberculata – is a hardy beast. Around 120,000 years ago, you could also find these molluscs living in the North Sea – although it was a lot warmer then. The molluscs could be found to a depth of several dozens of metres in the sandy sea bed near the tideline, filtering their food from the surrounding sea water. Any shells of this species that are presently found along the coast of the North Sea are without exception fossils. Because the rough cockle doesn’t like cold water. It has never found reason to leave the waters of Southern Europe, where it can be found to this very day.

Scale model of the hard seawall

Protect the port against the very highest waves coming in from the northwest. That’s what the seawall at Maasvlakte 2 is intended to do. It’s an offshore block dam: a very cost-effective, low-maintenance design. How does a dam like this work, and why are block dams that are constructed in the sea so effective? Watch the videos, study the scale model, grab an information sheet and find out for yourself. Allow us to lift a corner of the veil: this dam incorporates no less than 19,000 blocks. And they’ve all been positioned individually – one by one; around the clock.

 

Willow mat

Weaving flexible willow stems into sturdy mats, hundreds of metres long: it’s an age-old technology. And this quintessentially Dutch technique was also used for the foundations of the Maasvlakte 2 port basins. Willow mats continue to be the most effective, sustainable and environmentally-friendly option. The video explains why we need these mats, and shows how they are woven and submerged.

 

Photo timeline

On 1 September 2008, Mayor Opstelten opened the valve that started spraying on sand for Maasvlakte 2. This marked the official start of construction of the second Maasvlakte. The project’s progress is best seen from the air. This photo wall shows the steady realisation of 20 square kilometres of new port area – indeed, a whole new part of the Netherlands. An amazing expansion of the port of Rotterdam, by no less than 20 percent!

 

Filmzaal (niet voor UK versie!)

Our Film Hall presents a variety of short clips about the history and development of Maasvlakte 2. For example, in his video, Bram explains to viewers of all ages why Rotterdam actually needs a second Maasvlakte. And Loes Luca goes from one surprise to the next when she pays a visit to a dredging vessel during the construction of the new port area. Sebastiaan Labrie has made a 20-part series about the construction of Maasvlakte 2 for TV Rijnmond, while documentary maker Stephan Warmenhoven spent a decade filming the preparations for and realisation of Rotterdam’s newest port area. In other words: our Film Hall offers a varied and interesting programme of informative videos. And if you don’t feel like spending too much time in the dark today – no problem. You can also buy a DVD copy of the films at our reception desk.

Yangtze Hall

Visit FutureLand’s exhibition hall for the latest temporary exhibition. Of course, whatever the exhibition focuses on, you can count on it giving you all sorts of interesting new information about Europe’s most hi-tech port. Why not drop by – and prepare to be amazed!

 

Mammoth Corner

The sand that was used for the construction of the second Maasvlakte has been around for a while. In fact: it’s already been through a few ice ages. At that time, the water of today’s North Sea was still trapped in the polar ice caps. Our present-day seabed was one huge steppe. If you wanted to, you could walk all the way from Rotterdam to London – although this was before these cities were built, of course.

So what would you have found on this dry land? Mammoths, to start – but also woolly rhinoceroses, cave hyenas, wild horses, bovines, steppe wisents, hippos, giant deer, mice, beavers, otters: it was a regular prehistoric zoo! Although you wouldn’t find all these animals living here at the same time. Hippopotamuses and forest elephants lived in this region when it was a great deal warmer than it is today – a long time ago, in other words.

In the display case, you will find fossil remains of animals that once lived in the area now covered by the North Sea. Here, you can see the femur, pelvis and tusk of a mammoth bull. If this colossal animal were actually standing in this room, it would bump its head against the ceiling.

Almost every day, visitors to the second Maasvlakte’s new beach – also known as Mammoth Beach – come across new fossils in the sand. The best time to look for fossils is when the tide’s out. Or you can take a guided tour of the beach with fossil-hunting old-timer Walter Langendoen. He will teach you how to recognise wet molars and bones or petrified hyena droppings. And if you find anything yourself, you can report it with the Oervondstchecker app. The publication Schatten van het mammoetstrand offers all manner of background information on fossils, prehistoric animals and the development of the North Sea region. (schuine tekst niet in UK versie)

 







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