BrainBox: a digital lucky dip

This digital lucky dip offers a wealth of facts, photos and film clips. You determine which information about the construction of Maasvlakte 2 pops up – you and chance that is. Rest your finger on one of the balls, pull it towards you and discover the secrets of the most modern port in Europe.

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.

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.

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.

This area brings all the key facts, figures and trivia about the construction of Maasvlakte 2 together in one place. Why did Rotterdam have to expand again exactly? Did they actually study which impact this project would have on the environment? And how do you prevent all that sand that has been rainbowed on from washing back into the sea? In short: a crash course on Maasvlakte 2. Indispensable for anyone who wants to turn the wheel themselves when they get to the first floor.

This photo wall shows a selection from thousands of pictures that have been made of Maasvlakte 2’s construction by visitors, photographers, project staff and other people interested in the project. If you want to see even more great pictures, feel free to look through the MV2 Magazines and photo books laid out on the souvenir table.

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.

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