The boat tour of Rotterdam was a great experience. It was cool to see the cranes moving the shipping containers in action and from the point of view of the water.
Category: Students’ Posts
05/21/25 – Lewis Turley
As our trip comes to a close our itinerary gives us some more breathing room throughout the day. Yesterday we went on a boat tour of the port once again seeing Rotterdams industry from a new perspective. We then checked out a rooftop park which I have never seen before and spent the rest of [...]
Wednesday May 21 – Colin Broderick
Today we got on a tour boat and took a 2-hour tour of the Rotterdam Port. It was great to see a new perspective of the port, after seeing the port on a bike. It was cool to be able to see the ships perspective of the port as well as the industrial side of [...]
Day 11 – Cole Nichols
Today we went on boat tour through one of the largest ports in Europe. We passed through some of their amazingly unique architecture and saw where they unload and load sea shipments coming in and out of Rotterdam. All though it was a little chilly on the boat it was definitely one of my favorite [...]
05/21/2025 – David Gwinn
Today we took a boat tour to the ports of Rotterdam. It was interesting to see all of the cranes that carry the shipping containers onto the boats to export products across the ocean. Afterwards, we headed to the roof top gardens and visited the area were the pilgrims met to make the plan to [...]
Wednesday May 21st-Sydney Colglazier
Starting off the day with a boat tour was nice. I love being out on the water, but this felt like we had already seen a big part of what we already saw. We did get to see a little bit more of the big barge ships and how those are loaded up. Later on [...]
Misty Snyder – May 21
The Rotterdam Port tour via boat was a fantastic extenstion to the bike tour we had on Monday. The ports and the people who work in them have always been the heart and soul of Rotterdam. Learning about how technology is transforming the types of cargo moving through the ports, while reshaping the way the [...]
River Cruise of the Port of Rotterdam 5/21 Henning Chu
Taking river cruise to see the more industrial portions of the port, we were finally able to see supply chain in motion. I found interesting they mentioned that Rotterdam is becoming Europe's largest produce port, and with a new project to have a net zero cold storage warehouse. Seeing how Rotterdam is shifting its strategy [...]
5/21/25 – Robert Christman
Today we completed a boat tour of Rotterdam's large port. Similar with the bike tour, we learned a lot about the rich history of the port and the surrounding buildings within the port. We also did a little side quest to the Pilgrim church where the Mayflower trip first got brought up and set sailed. [...]
May 21st – Spencer Didat
Todya we took a boat tour to see every poet in Rotterdam. We learned that the ports re MASSVIE and seeing the industrialisation of all the ports was really cool. We also got to explore the rooftop gardens in Rotterdam and we ended the day by seeing where the Mayflower was orchjestrated and ate at [...]
