Hoek van Holland


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Hoek van Holland

(ho͝ok vän hôl`änt) or

Hook of Holland,

district of Rotterdam, W Netherlands, on the North Sea. It is an outer port of RotterdamRotterdam
, city (1994 pop. 598,521), South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the Nieuwe Maas (New Meuse) River near its mouth on the North Sea. One of the largest and most modern ports in the world, Rotterdam is the major foreign-trade center of the Netherlands and its second
..... Click the link for more information. , with which it is connected by the New Waterway. It is a terminus for ships that cross the English Channel from HarwichHarwich
, town (1991 pop. 17,245), Essex, E central England, on the estuary of the Stour and the Orwell rivers. An important port, Harwich imports foodstuffs, iron and steel, and machinery; it exports chemicals and automobiles. In wartime it has been a naval base.
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The latest addition to the company's growing fleet, the Stena Trader provides 3,100 lane metres and will operate one crossing per day on the Killingholme to Hoek van Holland route.
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Scheduled to begin operations in January 2002, the roughly EUR 35 million investment marks the third new production facility for DSM Desotech in three years, following the 1999 opening of a plant in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands, and the construction of a new facility in Tsukuba, Japan, in 2000.
Third DSM Desotech plant in three years
will mark Desotech's fourth manufacturing facility, joining existing plants in Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands; Stanley, NC and Tsukuba, Japan.
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Heno mae hi'n galw heibio Hoek Van Holland,Yr Hague,Naaldwijk,Delft, Gouda ac Arnhem.
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The scrubbers will be installed on the Stena Transit and Stena Transporter ferries operating between Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands and Killingholme in the U.
United Kingdom : Wartsila exhaust scrubber systems to achieve emissions compliance for two Stena Line ferries

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