.Main article: Port of Rotterdam
The Waalhaven by night
Europe Container TerminalsRotterdam has the largest port in Europe. Since 2004 Asian ports like Singapore and Shanghai have taken over its world leading position. In 2004 Rotterdam was the seventh largest port in the world in terms of containers (TEU) handled.
Most important for the port of Rotterdam are the petrochemical industry and general cargo transhipment handlings. The harbour functions as an important transit point for transport of bulk and other goods between the European continent and other parts of the world. From Rotterdam goods are transported by ship, river barge, train or road. Since 2000 the Betuweroute, a fast cargo railway from Rotterdam to Germany, has been under construction. Large oil refineries are located west of the city. The rivers Meuse and Rhine also provide excellent access to the hinterland.
In the first half of the twentieth century the port activities moved from the centre towards the North Sea. The Nieuwe Waterweg was dug from Rotterdam to the North Sea, a canal to disembogue the shallow Rhine and Meuse. The Nieuwe Waterweg was ready in 1872 and all sorts of industrial activity formed on the banks of this canal.
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Port of Shanghai is the largest sea port in the world.The port handled 744 million tonnes of cargo in 2012, including 32.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers.The port comprises of 125 berths with a total quay length of about 20km. It serves more than 2,000 container ships on a monthly basis.
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The port "Hamburg" in Germany is the largest sea port in the world.
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Shanghai has replaced Rotterdam as the biggest port in the world
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Rotterdam
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Long Island
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Grimsby
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panama canal in America
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must be hong kong, and then rotterdam or hamburg, something like that
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