Fore all non Dutch readers Hoek of Holland or by it’s Dutch name Hoek van Holland is part of the city of Rotterdam. And located at the mouth of the Nieuwe Waterweg (New Waterway)

Hook Of Holland is linked to the Holland America line. At the turn of the 19Th/20th century Holland America owned a passenger and freight terminal at the spot where now Stena Line ferry Comp. is located. The terminal was opened to of load goods to make the drought of the bigger liners as low as possible. In those days the New Waterway was not possible fore vessels as Nieuw Amsterdam (1 of 1906) and Rotterdam (4 of 1908) to sail fully loaded to the Wilhelminakade terminal. It was also possible fore first class passengers to disembark at the Hook and catch the special boot train to Rotterdam main railway station and safe up time.

This situation ended around the start of the first world war in 1914. When Rotterdam started to dredge the waterway. The pier itself became a fruit terminal and years later the wooden pier burned down.

Greetings from the home port of Rotterdam Ben van Zeijl.