Rotterdam’s other massive advantage is the very small tidal range, ie the difference in water level between high and low tides, generally no more than 1.5m. That makes every part of the port accessible 24 hours per day, requires no locks and allows simpler quayside infrastructure. This tidal range is much less than Antwerp (up to 5m) meaning many ships there need to lock in and out - which takes time.

to improve your videos, add some maps for illustration

this feels so ai generated

Nice video! To add, its also part of the history. The Netherlands is already trading for centuries.

I want to add, throughout these years i have noticed something about the Netherlands. Its always the infrastructure provider to stuff built upon it. It might not seem at first, but everything europe if you look deep enough somehow depends on them. Schiphol airport being one of the biggest in europe Rotterdam being the biggest port The infra throughout the country is a posterchild example Most servers for europe are located here Asml provides the infra for chip production The list goes on and on

There is a ship canal between Rhine, the Main and the Danube which enables small river ships to go as far as the Black Sea. Many very large cargo ships cannot enter some ports because of their size and the largest cannot go through the Suez Canal or even the new Panama Canal but must go via South Africa.

The port of Antwerp lies much more inland than Rotterdam, but that's not a weakness as stated, but a strength in a whole lot of domains, especially transshipment. You cut 2x100 km of driving time for the loads of containers, and replace it by a single ship sailing more inland. Thats why in terms of container traffic, the Port of Antwerp handles quite similar volumes as Rotterdam. Rotterdam excels on other things, where they have better inland connectivity: bulk goods that are shipped on inland waterways, and oil that can just be piped anywhere cheaply. Both fill their own roles given their respective connectivity strengths and weaknesses

It would be nice if u can use maps and animation to explain certain points in your video, esp international viewer like me from Asia, who can't really visualize why Rotherham is so important

Very good explanations. THANKS !

Good content… man spent the first few minute making me know why I need to listen to this content

Great and informative video. Thank you. When countries cooperate with mutual trust, they can trade smoothly and trade can make everyone better off. Just a little suggestion with regards to the video, if I may, that it would be appreciated to use the metric unit only whenever distance/measurement is involved, as (1) most UN-registered countries (>98%) used it officially, hence it is what nearly all of people in the world are familiar with, (2) KZfaq audiences are worldwide. It would be nice to follow English-spoken videos that are addressed for international audiences as English is still the de facto worldwide's language today, (3) having worldwide standard units allow consistency & ease of understanding, just like most people in the world use 'hour', 'minutes', and 'seconds' for time measurement. Best regards,

Great video!!!!

Talking about the Rhine and Germany: The biggest inland port in Germany is Duisburg, the second one is Karlsruhe (thanks to oil shipments). The Rhine is the only access by ship from Switzerland to a sea port. The connection to Austria is rather bad. The canal between Rhine and Danube has many locks. And the Danube is not alway deep enough. The freight line for trains is called Betuwe Line. The connecting project in Germany, a third track between the Betuwe line and the Rhine-Ruhr zone is delayed and will be completed maybe somewhere after 2030.

Mainly because it's near the mouth of the rhine/danube corridor. There are also canal connections to the seinne and the rhone, in france. Paris, lyon and marseille. The three largest french cities are on this network.

That train track in the video is like 200 meters away from my house😂

I’ve always taken an interest in Rotterdam’s prowess as a port since watching a documentary in the year 2000 and one of the most fascinating things mentioned was that the port was fully automated. This is the best presentation since then. Thought J would have seen more gantry cranes though. Nevertheless thanks for the info.

The images from minute 1:20 to 1:30 are from ANTWERP's Noordzee Terminal, not Rotterdam. LOL😅

It’s also famous for a genre of electronic music.

Heavy big ships need Rotterdam first to unload heavy load before they are able to enter shallow Harbours.

Is the voice AI? Just out of curiosity

On the Rhine Bonn is insignificant for Cargo... Ludwigshafen home of BASF the biggest chemical pant in the world, or Frankfurt (via a tributary) are much more relevant to the traffic on the Rhine.

Also, the Port of Rotterdam is a global hub for criminal activity (like so many ports are). Maybe this will make a nice darker version of this video :)

For a large part it is because Holland after WW1 did not have to sign international law about chemical warfare. We are still allowed to drop far more toxic chemicals in oil that will be burned as fuel by ships and that will be dumped by ships in the ocean.

You forgot to mention the Rhine-Main-Danube connection, which basically connects the Port of Rotterdam and the North Sea with the Black Sea.

The Germans jokingly said that the port of Rotterdam is the largest German post since a lot of stuff is going to Germany via Rotterdam.

You forget to mention that Rotterdam was the worlds biggest port for 40 years

This is why i'm proud to be from Rotterdam!

Let’s not forget to mention that Rotterdam is home to a number of very big refineries and tank storages which also connect by barge and pipelines to Belgium and Germany. Completely missed in this video

just imagine how much of no-no colombian flour is smuggled through there every year

During my time in the German merchant marine (Hamburg America line) we often visited Rotterdam The port was a 24 hour port. They worked fast. One of the biggest advantage Rotterdam has that the closeness to the German industrial center the Ruhr.The Dutch are hard working people without false illusion how to get rich.

It built big that's why it's big

is this script ai? pretty basic grammar errors throughout

It is the biggest in the world ( however Shanghai or Singapore handle much more containers ). No. 2 in Europe is Antwerp and Hamburg is no.3.

This is a pretty terrible video. If I click on a video like this, I expect the most relevant facts of the matter to be presented, and to be presented in a succinct and comprehensible way. Your script is full of weird sentences ('put into simple words' what?!) and completely forgets to mention centuries of trading relationships, decades of investment into transport links into the EU's largest industrial centers by volume and naturally safe location deep into a shallow, narrow-access sea channel. It's not even that you asked ChatGPT for a script, because if I try that it at least includes some of those factors.

I think you meant "theortically" not "technically"

In the recent Netherlands Elections Geert Wilder's PVV party won, Geert Wilders wants the Netherlands to leave the EU, Nexit he calls it (stupid name imo). If Wilders ever gets his way, and the Netherlands leaves the EU, it will be the end for Rotterdam.

Z ekonomicznego punktu widzenia wielkosc nie zawsze ma sesns , stad lepiej podzielic na kilka mniejszych

*You got a big mess up, we the second biggest exporter.* *But you used "Value of Exports" instead*

When amateurs give there opinion .... the reason was other thing in history. (short story)they dig out for long time the river. that's why the harbor grow and the rest they make after it (transport) . But hey when amateurs tell thinks, it's true.....

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You also should not forgot while germany only sells gass and oil from russia to the rest of europe. While french is still baking bread, we dutchies know how to trade. When exports from other country enters our land it is import, when the import leaves our country it is export. That is why the netherlands is the *second biggest exporter of entire europe.*

i mean it the the gate way for drugs in Europe

"Rhine goes into Germany?" major Geography fail.. It comes FROM Germany

Colonge University und Humble Strutgart

Because others aren't.

Is this a AI voice? 😂

More could have been written.

Its dubai in the middle east & africa

I thought it's because of cocaine 😆

5:18 transport by ship is too damn cheap. It should be 80% by trains.

Greenland it ice agg

Hello Dutchies, we want our 70 Bn EUR back xoxo Germans

Blaue Banane.

Pireus In Greece?

More boringly told than most school material.

*China, China, China !*

Europe has one gigantic problem and everything is directly or indirectly related to it: EXTREME FRAGMENTATION of everything. The funny thing is that nationalism prevents people from even realizing this simple fact. The EU is just a virtual paper project with no real power. In practice, Europe today remains 27 completely separate countries (even that number is variable), with different laws, languages, bureaucracies, taxation, justice, immigration & foreign policy, and education systems. Everything is separated and completely disconnected. Despite all EU efforts since its inception, freedom of movement is hindered by factors such as language and national bureaucracy. In theory, people can (and often do) move around, but it’s still extremely difficult. You need to spend years to learn the local language, your credit history is not recognized, you cannot get a loan, credit card, leasing contract, etc., and your pension contributions are not transferred. And these are only a few basic things. There are also more problems for special cases. For example, if you have any invalidity, it is not recognized in another EU state. When it comes to scientists, it’s just like any other professional group: whether you are a nuclear physicist or a plumber, you are trapped in the mini market of the state whose language you can speak. In America, on the other hand, you have access to an enormous market of potential employers and you only need to speak English. You can work in New York today and in LA next week. The situation is even worse for companies: the EU ‘single’ market is single only in name. Sure, theoretically, as an EU company you can do business anywhere in the EU. But in reality, if you don’t have a subsidiary in every single EU country, you cannot really operate. Meanwhile, in America, you open a single company and you cover the whole US market. Do the math when it comes to the difference in costs when you operate a single company vs. duplicating your structure 27 times! 🤯 Then, there is another important thing nobody likes to talk about, the mammoth 🦣 in the room: the US military. The military funds and subsidizes universities and business across the US. It is also the biggest employer (directly or indirectly) in the country. How can Europe’s miniature armies possibly compete? In conclusion, as long as the EU is not an actual country with a genuine single market (which it will never be), it will always lose both companies and professionals (including scientists) to the US.

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5:10 this is incorrect. The Betuweroute (which is an exklusive freight route) is only in the Netherlands. Most of the route south of the Dutch-German Border is a mixed route (freight trains, local trains, Intercity trains etc all sharing the same tracks). There is another section between Duisburg and Troisdorf which has dedicated freight tracks, but that's it

well also politics , denying Romanias and Bulgarias entrance in Schengen so that their ports would not be a competition for Rotterdam

Is this channel AI written? Seems like AI garbage

Stop this AI shit

04:26 containerport Utrecht, part of Amsterdam Port and with no connection to Rotterdam... 04:48 Noordzee kanaal to... Amsterdam! 08:00 Rotterdam is 30 km INLAND! Only the port is next to the sea. The tittle of this video is therefore wrong!

very bad and non-informative video

This script is sooooooo bad, every other sentence is crooked. Edit: it gets better around 3 minutes in

Is it? I thought is was taken over by Antwerp years ago. At least on drugs it is. Now, don't get me wrong. Rotterdam is still a great player. It used to be the seccond port in the world at some point. Heck, even Hamburg is a contender. I guess it all has to do with world trade. Singapore was the largest untill overtaken by Shanghai. Connectivity, politics and local taxes also play a role.