Joris Ammerlaan Within PortCityFutures, we work under the assumption that port cities worldwide share distinguishing features and challenges. Two years ago, for…
Afra Knaap, Augusta Fiseryte, Fons van de Ven, Niké te Brinke, Paula von Zeska de Toledo, Raf van Oosterhout, Sue Vern Lai and Winnie van de Sande The Urban…
Maurice Jansen and Hannah Mosmans The work of the seafarer is a forgotten and increasingly misunderstood profession. There have been socio-technological changes…
Paul van de Laar & Peter Scholten Turkish dock worker with a colleague at Multi-Terminals (1980), Robert de Hartogh, Rotterdam. A superdiverse city The first…
By Loukia Batsi In the case of Brussels, where the Senne River has been vaulted since 1871, few are the citizens who are aware of the presence of the river…
Paul van de Laar In early February, the port city of Rotterdam was breaking news around the globe. Local media announced that the national monument De Hef (the…
Riwa Abdel Khalek After the blast in Beirut in August 2020, Lebanon’s second port city - Tripoli - quickly took over the capital’s port functions. Tripoli’s…
Stephan Hauser The explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020 showed that ports are clusters of risks, and that accidents in port areas can have disastrous effects…
