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Botlek is an industrial port area of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It specialises in petrochemical logistics.
History
Botlek was originally the name of a stretch of the
Nieuwe Maas river, part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, Rhine–Meuse delta near the
Netherlands, Dutch cities of
Vlaardingen and
Spijkenisse in the
province
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of
South Holland
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. Specifically, it was the name of the
strait that separated the island of
Rozenburg from the
sand bar of Welplaat. The strait itself was merely the continuation of the
Nieuwe Maas, and the stretch of the river south of Rozenburg continued to be called
Nieuwe Maas until the confluence with
Het Scheur formed the Brielse Maas
estuary
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(now the
Brielse Meer).
Major
waterway
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regulation works were carried out in the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries to improve water management and stop the delta from silting up; the Botlek was dammed off at its southern end (connecting Rozenburg and Welplaat) and remodelled into one of the largest of the Rotterdam seaports.
Gallery
File:Rotterdam-Botlek, Shin Etsu (fabriek voor het produceren van vinylchloridemonomeer) IMG 2507 2022-07-11 12.34.jpg, Shin Etsu (vinyl chloride monomer production plant)
File:Rotterdam-Botlek, Air Products (fabriek voor het produceren van industriële gassen en chemicaliën) IMG 2515 2022-07-11 12.48.jpg, Air Products (factory for producing industrial gases and chemicals)
File:Rotterdam-Botlek, opslagtranks van Esso raffinaderij IMG 2525 2022-07-11 12.59.jpg, Storage tanks from Esso refinery
See also
*
Europoort
References
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Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
Water transport in the Netherlands