The Moerdijk industrial area was created in the 1970’s and is located in the southern part of The Netherlands, some 50 km south of Rotterdam. Moerdijk is located on the Hollandsche Diep and has the farthermost inland seaport in The Netherlands. The industrial complex is currently home to approximately 375 companies, which collectively use about half of the available 2,600 hectares of industrially zoned land. An extension of the industrial area is currently being considered, given the strategic location on an infrastructural node (seagoing shipping, inland shipping, road transport, rail transport and pipeline networks) almost exactly half way between the industrial and metropolitan centres of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium) (van Berkel 2006).
Moerdijk has been singled out as the leading example of eco-industrial development in The Netherlands (Pellenbarg 2002; Heeres et al. 2004). This is attributed to the clearly articulated vision for the area, the existence of a local industry representative organisation, existing resource synergies and general active participation and commitment of companies to eco-industrial development.
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This webpage was last modified on 21 March 2007.
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