Nieuwe Waterweg

The Nieuwe Waterweg is a deliver canal inside the Netherlands from het Scheur a department of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta west of the city of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, wherein the Nieuwe Waterweg connects to the Maasgeul. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine. The Nieuwe Waterweg, which opened in 1872 and has a duration of about 20.5 kilometres turned into constructed to hold the city and port of Rotterdam on hand to seafaring vessels as the herbal Meuse-Rhine branches silted up. The Waterway is a hectic delivery direction on account that it is the primary access to one of the busiest ports in the global, the Port of Rotterdam.

At the entrance to the sea, a flood safety device called Maeslantkering has been installed. There aren't any bridges or tunnels throughout the Nieuwe Waterweg. By the center of the 19th century, Rotterdam changed into already one in all the largest port towns in the global, mainly because of transshipment of goods from Germany to Great Britain. The increase in shipping visitors created a ability problem: there were too many branches in the river delta, making the port hard to attain.