{"id":3621,"date":"2012-08-23T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/08\/23\/ten-t-grant-for-maasvlakte-2-operator\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:33:34","slug":"ten-t-grant-for-maasvlakte-2-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/08\/23\/ten-t-grant-for-maasvlakte-2-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"TEN-T grant for Maasvlakte 2 operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grant has been allocated to Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) for a rail terminal and inland shipping cranes at its new container terminal at Maasvlakte 2.<\/p>\n<p>RWG is operated by DP World \u2013 which also owns 30% of its shares. Other RWG partners include shipping companies, Singapore&#8217;s APL, Japan&#8217;s MOL, South Korea&#8217;s HMM and France&#8217;s CMA CGM, all of which own 20% shares, except for CMA, which owns 10%.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for RWG, said to Po<i>rt Strategy<\/i>: \u201cIt is the EU\u2019s intention to let us have this grant. Next week our project director is in Brussels to discuss the issue. When things are finalised we will be releasing a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>PS <\/i>spoke to the other terminal operator operating out of Massvlakte2, APM terminals, but it confirmed it hasn\u2019t received any part of the grant.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brussels is also reportedly providing \u20ac300,000 for a study into a new rail corridor between Rotterdam and Warsaw which is on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of TEN-T is to create a single transport network in the European Union by land, water and air to make it more simple to move cargo and people across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Strategy has learned that although the Port of Rotterdam has said that it has received a \u20ac5m grant from the EU\u2019s Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), it hasn\u2019t seen a penny, it has gone directly to one of Maasvlakte 2\u2019s new operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}