Central and regional government are making agreements for development of the port of Rotterdam and the region

Parties involved in the port of Rotterdam, including the Port of Rotterdam Authority, have presented joint agreements regarding important developments for the resource and energy transition, residential construction, accessibility and the balance with the living environment, such as landscape development and limiting noise pollution. This represents a joint substantiation of their shared perspective on the long-term development of the area.

This is the first time that such a broad coalition of organizations has worked together on strategic spatial planning choices and the acceleration of projects in the port of Rotterdam region. This is necessary because many different spatial and social challenges converge in the region. Short-term choices are decisive for the long term and vice versa. Central and regional government want their collaboration to create a future-proof port in an economically powerful region that is attractive to live and work in. At the same time, the collaboration does not include everything that is realized and maintained in the area, and the parties retain their own administrative decision-making powers.

See the implementation agenda for all objectives, agreements, and projects.

In early December 2023, the national government, together with the province of South Holland, the municipality of Rotterdam and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, established a development perspective for the port. Publication of the ‘Implementation Agenda 1.0 NOVEX Port of Rotterdam 2025–2050’ represents initiation of the next phase. The following step is to link financial resources to the joint objectives, agreements, and projects.

The NOVEX programme for the port of Rotterdam is a collaboration between the Province of South Holland, the Municipality of Rotterdam, the Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management, the Ministry of Housing & Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Climate Policy & Green Growth, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security & Nature, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority. These parties are seeking cooperation with the municipalities of Voorne aan Zee, Nissewaard, Albrandswaard, Maassluis, Vlaardingen, Schiedam and Dordrecht, Hollandse Delta Water Authority, Safety Region Rotterdam, Rotterdam-Rijnmond Municipal Health Service (GGD), Deltalinqs, South Holland Nature & Environment Federation, Metropolitan Region Rotterdam The Hague, and Rijnmond DCMR Environmental Protection Agency.