We might be consistently blown away by the sheer scale of international ports with their monster cargo ships, cranes, acres of containers stacked like Lego bricks and fleets of trucks, but how many of us really know how a port operates?
Rotterdam, the biggest and busiest in Europe, is demystifying its past, present and looking to the future with the new Portlantis, a massive visitor and exhibition centre designed by renowned Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV and located at the port’s southwestern corner.
