Location of Nieuwe Waterweg (including Het Scheur) in dark blue.
Location
Country
Netherlands
Province
South Holland
Physical characteristics
Source
Nieuwe Maas
• location
Maassluis
Mouth
Maasmond
• location
Hook of Holland
Length
20 km (12 mi)
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where 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 length of approximately 20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi), was constructed to keep the city and port of Rotterdam accessible to seafaring vessels as the natural Meuse-Rhine branches silted up.[1] The Waterway is a busy shipping route since it is the primary access to one of the busiest ports in the world, the Port of Rotterdam. At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed (completed in 1997). There are no bridges or tunnels across the Nieuwe Waterweg.
^Website Rijkswaterstaat about Nieuwe Waterweg, visited: 24 April 2012
51°56′31″N 4°11′29″E / 51.94194°N 4.19139°E / 51.94194; 4.19139 The NieuweWaterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur...
Europoort, situated along the Calandkanaal, NieuweWaterweg and Scheur (the latter two being continuations of the Nieuwe Maas); and the reclaimed Maasvlakte area...
artificial NieuweWaterweg. The total length of the Nieuwe Maas (excluding the Scheur) is approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi). The Nieuwe Maas flows through...
Maeslantkering ("Maeslant barrier" in Dutch) is a storm surge barrier on the NieuweWaterweg, in South Holland, Netherlands. It was constructed from 1991 to 1997...
dikes exposed to the sea by 700 kilometres (430 mi). The mouths of the NieuweWaterweg and the Westerschelde were to remain open because of the important...
started in 1826 and was completed in 1829. Until the completion of the NieuweWaterweg in 1872 it was the main connection from Rotterdam to the sea for ocean...
situated on the South bank of the NieuweWaterweg, same as the Maasvlakte area. On the Northern bank of the NieuweWaterweg one could find Hook of Holland...
July 1915. On 10 June 1914 the competitor Scheepsbouw Maatschappij NieuweWaterweg was founded. It was modeled on the RDM, and persuaded many employees...
The Nieuwe Merwede (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌniu.ə ˈmɛrʋeːdə]; "New Merwede") is a Dutch canal, mainly fed by the river Rhine, that was constructed in 1870...
confluence of the Oude Maas and Nieuwe Maas branches past the towns of Rozenburg and Maassluis. It continues as the NieuweWaterweg (New Waterway) to the North...
Hardinxveld-Giessendam, where it splits into Nieuwe Merwede and Beneden Merwede. Near Lage Zwaluwe, the Nieuwe Merwede joins the Amer, forming the Hollands...
called Merwede. Near Rotterdam the river is known as Nieuwe Maas, and becomes the NieuweWaterweg flowing into the North Sea at Hook of Holland. The downstream...
known as (the last stretch of) Nieuwe Maas. When the Brielse Maas silted up in the late nineteenth century, the NieuweWaterweg ship canal was constructed...
Lauwers, Lek, Linge, Mark, Meuse, Nederrijn, Niers, Nieuwe Maas, Nieuwe Merwede, NieuweWaterweg, Noord, Oosterschelde, Oude IJssel, Oude Maas, Oude Rijn...
Lek Merwede Boven Merwede Nieuwe Merwede Beneden Merwede Oude Maas Dordtsche Kil Noord Nieuwe Maas Scheur NieuweWaterweg Former distributaries Kromme...
enter the Rhine-Meuse Delta through the busy and heavy industrialised NieuweWaterweg. There are plans to permanently open a few of the Haringvliet sluices...
(which was cut off from mainland Holland by the construction of the NieuweWaterweg ship canal in 1870 and subsequently was connected to Rozenburg when...
continues west as the main distributary of the Maas. Part of the Merwede (the Nieuwe Merwede) rejoins the Bergse Maas to form the Hollands Diep estuary. Historically...
Lek Merwede Boven Merwede Nieuwe Merwede Beneden Merwede Oude Maas Dordtsche Kil Noord Nieuwe Maas Scheur NieuweWaterweg Former distributaries Kromme...
Hardinxveld-Giessendam splits into the Beneden Merwede river on the right and the Nieuwe Merwede river on the left. Its length is 8.8 km (5.5 mi). The Merwede is...
village of Kinderdijk, to form the Nieuwe Maas; then flows past Rotterdam and continues via Het Scheur and the NieuweWaterweg, to the North Sea. The Oude Maas...
as the continuation of the Boven Merwede after the branching-off of the Nieuwe Merwede ship canal. It flows from Hardinxveld-Giessendam to Dordrecht, where...
Lek Merwede Boven Merwede Nieuwe Merwede Beneden Merwede Oude Maas Dordtsche Kil Noord Nieuwe Maas Scheur NieuweWaterweg Former distributaries Kromme...
1963, hundreds of thousands of people stood ashore by the Nieuwe Maas and the NieuweWaterweg to wave two ships, de Groote Beer and the Waterman goodbye...
with completion of the storm surge barrier Maeslantkering in the NieuweWaterweg, near Rotterdam. In the UK, the Permanent Secretary to the Home Office...
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