Update: Piet Sinke Will Not Be the First Man in Rotterdam to Greet Eurodam

Alexander | May 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm | In Inaugural, Latest News |

Contrary to what we wrote in our earlier post, lucky Piet Sinke actually will meet Eurodam before the ship sails into Rotterdam.

Piet, who is editor of the “Daily Collection of Maritime Press Clippings,” does not have to fear a massive crowd in front of his house in Hook of Holland when the Eurodam sails into Rotterdam. The lucky guy already will be on board the vessel!

Piet lives at the Berghaven, the small port of Hook of Holland, right at the mouth of the river Nieuwe Waterweg. Normally, when an extraordinary ship sails into Rotterdam, usually Piet boards either a lifeboat or a pilot tender stationed at Berghaven to photograph the ship for his publication.

It just so happens that Piet is a good friend of Captain Jeroen van Donselaar, master of Eurodam, who advised HAL’s PR team to let Piet make the trip from Southampton to Rotterdam. That will enable Piet to make a very special edition of his worldwide-distributed e-mail newsletter.

In the meantime, Hook of Holland’s city council is a bit upset about not being involved in Eurodam’s arrival events, according to local newspaper reports. Therefore, Hook of Holland is planning its own activities on Sunday June 29, when the Eurodam arrives in Rotterdam.

So there almost certainly will be a massive crowd on the riverbank in Hook of Holland. But Piet does not mind anymore. He won’t have to fight the crowds to get to the ship.

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Actually the Pilot is the first Man/Woman to great ms Eurodam to Rotterdam.

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.

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