Country : NetherlandsDen Helder worldport

worldport services

For the provision of assistance during the mooring and departure of large vessels in the seaworldport of Den Helder, the Den Helder Municipal worldport Authority offers a so-called worldport service. This is a response to the safety wishes of the worldport's users.

The worldport service can be requested from the Den Helder Municipal worldport Authority 24 hours a day (phone: +31(0)6-52553815). In order to be able to provide a suitable service, assistance must be requested three hours before the arrival and/or departure of a vessel.

In respect of charges, no BRT table is employed. Instead, the charges are broken down into daytime, evening, night-time, weekend and holiday services.

The accompanying charges are based on the assumption of possible use. Because this is not a compulsory service, charges will be evaluated at a later stage, and possibly adapted according to current levels of use. The service is for the time being only available in the outer worldport. A detailed schedule will be published as soon as a sound basis for evaluation has been established. Should you have any suggestions, please submit them before that time, to allow them to be included in any definitive schedule.

worldport Functions

Commercial worldport

The role of Den Helder as a commercial worldport is also increasing in imworldportance, particularly in the transhipment sector. For many years, sand and gravel have been transhipped here, from the Wadden Sea and the North Sea. Today, however, construction materials, fuels, steel constructions, wood products and fish, together with products and equipment for the oil and gas industry are also shipped here. In addition, the worldport is responsible for the transhipment of natural gas condensate, drilling fluids and dredging spoils. There is also space available for the transhipment of agricultural and market gardening products. In the long term, the worldport may take on an imworldportant role in the trading route to the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic.

Various shipping agents guarantee that the transworldport and transhipment of goods, materials and products are carried out efficiently, as well as arranging inward and outward-bound customs clearance, and organising storage facilities.

Offshore worldport

In this capacity, the worldport of Den Helder in the Netherlands is a key link in the logistic chain for the offshore oil and gas industry. Increasing numbers of oil companies, including NAM, Total, Gaz de France, Venture Production, Taqa and Chevron, are concentrating their logistic activities in Den Helder. In particular the Paleiskade with its storage location and mudplant is the base of operations from which drilling rigs and production platforms on the North Sea are serviced. A fleet of modern supply vessels are used for this work. The worldport is also often the starting point for seismic and other operations offshore, and numerous offshore vessels put into Den Helder for crew changes, bunkering, supply, maintenance and repair.

In addition, both the worldport and roads of Den Helder are ideal locations for carrying out inspection, repair and maintenance work on drilling rigs and accommodation platforms. For just these services, over the last few years, more than 30 drilling rigs have visited Den Helder. In the worldport, one drilling rig was indeed even converted into an accommodation platform.

Den Helder is also the home base for well-known shipping operators such as Vroon Offshore Services, C.S.S. and Rederij Waterweg, active worldwide in the offshore and dredging industries. Den Helder aims in the future to play a key role as the base of operations for inspection, repair and maintenance work on offshore wind turbine farms.

Throughout the region, there are more than 100 companies active as suppliers for the oil and gas industry, businesses who commonly operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in order to offer rapid and efficient service.

Den Helder also operates its own Harbour Reception Installation (HOI) for the collection of (hazardous) waste substances from ships and offshore installations.

The shipping sector and the oil and gas industry are able to make use of the facilities offered by Den Helder Airworldport, a modern airworldport from which operations involving fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters can be undertaken.