Merwehaven is a harbour on the right bank of the river Maas in Rotterdam. Construction of Merwehaven started in 1923 and was completed in 1930. Unlike other Rotterdam harbours of that age, Merwehaven is still in full use. At the time, before its construction, it was known to Gemeentewerken, the city council and others involved, as the 'three harbour plan'. You would almost think they came up with that because of its resemblance to a 'trident'. The Merwehaven was built as a general cargo port. Fruit has also always been transshipped here. In 1971, a complex of fruit warehouses was opened with a storage capacity of 400,000 packages. From 1985, this complex was expanded. Today, the total size is 43,000 m2 of air-conditioned warehouses. In 1960, a roll-on-roll-off connection between Rotterdam and Tilbury was started. After the completion of Beneluxhaven in Europoort, this service moved to Beneluxhaven. At the entrance to the port on the Schiedam side was the Gusto shipyard. This shipyard was closed in 1978. In Merwehaven there were two detention boats for illegal aliens who had committed offences independently of their illegality. These detention boats ("bay boats") disappeared from the harbour in 2009
Rick Keus is sinds 1990 freelance fotograaf, gevestigd in Rotterdam. Zijn fotografie spitst zich toe op sociaal maatschappelijke onderwerpen.
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