Eemshaven

Eemshaven
Port area Port area
Eemshaven Location of Eemshaven in the province of Groningen
Coordinates:
Country	Netherlands
Province	Groningen
Municipality	Eemsmond

Eemshaven (Dutch pronunciation: [eːmsˈɦaːvə(n)]; English: Ems Harbor) is a seaport in the province of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands.

In 1968, the Dutch government declared the Ems estuary (Eemsmond) to be an economic key region. One of the key developments for the region was the construction of a seaport called Eemshaven. The port was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Juliana in 1973. Industry and shipping were slow to develop at the site. In 2013, a ferry service connects to the German island of Borkum.

A number of power plants operate at the site. Both Electrabel and NUON operate a gas-fired power plant there while RWE Innogy operates a wind farm at the site. RWE is operating a coal-fired plant.

The static inverter station of HVDC NorNed is situated at Eemshaven. One endpoint of the COBRAcable HVDC transmission line to Esbjerg, Denmark is also planned to be build here.

Eemshaven is the landfall point for a high-speed transatlantic fiber-optic cable which connects the U.S. and Europe. On 23 September 2014, Google announced that it plans to spend $773 Million building a data center.

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  Picture of Eemshaven

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  Smock mill Goliath in front of the wind farm Growind

• Eemshaven officieel geopend Weeknummer 73-25 - Open Beelden - 77796.ogv

  Opening 1973, newsreel

External links

• Eemshaven, official website