Project Delivery
Yangtzekanaal starts 1.4 million m3 Phase B dredging after tug-quay delivery
Rotterdam has delivered the 500-metre tug quay with 12 berths and shore power, and Hakkers, De Klerk and Van Oord have started the 1,450-metre second phase. The owner now defines 20 new inland-shipping berths, NAP -6.80 metre maintained berth depth, 1.4 million cubic metres of sand dredging and reuse on Maasvlakte 2, a heavy-load zone and about 10,000 cubic metres of geopolymer concrete.
Published scope and current milestone
The Port of Rotterdam Authority's 24 July release is the controlling status and quantity source. It confirms Phase A delivery, names the same three-company consortium for Phase B, and fixes the Phase B berth, depth, dredging, reuse and geopolymer-concrete scope. Earlier owner, annual-report and harbourmaster sources retain the contract and live-channel chronology. The former online-magazine route returned HTTP 500 in the 12 August sweep and was removed rather than preserved as an unavailable technical source.
Port delivery and operating implications
The update turns Phase B from a general start notice into a quantified quay-and-dredging package. It corrects the earlier shorthand of about 30 new berths: the owner says 20 new berths in addition to 10 existing berths. The same release still does not identify dredging plant, measured production, contract price, lower tiers, completion surveys or accepted two-way access for 24,000 TEU ships.
Evidence conclusion
Handover, readiness and service evidence
Phase B is now a live 1.4 million m3 dredging and 1,450-metre quay opportunity with a defined maintained-depth target and reuse route. Plant mobilisation, surveyed production and reuse, quay-wall progress, berth and shore-power handover, and accepted NAP -6.80 metre depth will determine when the scope becomes usable infrastructure. The intended two-way 24,000 TEU result and post-2028 Phase C access remain unachieved until nautical and hydrographic records say otherwise.
Outstanding evidence
- Phase B contract price, lower tiers, and named dredging plant
- Dredging production and Maasvlakte 2 reuse against the 1.4 million m3 scope
- Surveyed and accepted NAP -6.80 metre maintained berth depth
- Progress and handover of the 1,450-metre quay and 20 new berths
- Shore-power, heavy-load-zone, and geopolymer-concrete delivery
- Operating release for intended two-way access by ships up to 24,000 TEU
- Phase C procurement, geometry, sediment route and hydrographic acceptance records
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