Eemshaven (; en, Ems Harbor) is a

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in the province of

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

in the north of the

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. In 1968, the Dutch government declared the Ems

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( 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 A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as ...

was officially opened by 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 Borkum ( nds, Borkum, Börkum) is an island and a municipality in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany. It is situated east of Rottumeroog and west of Juist. Geography Borkum is bordered to the west by the Westerems stra ...

. A ferry service to

Rosyth Rosyth ( gd, Ros Fhìobh, "headland of Fife") is a town on the Firth of Forth, south of the centre of Dunfermline. According to the census of 2011, the town has a population of 13,440. The new town was founded as a Garden city-style subur ...

, Scotland, was to start by late October 2019. The plan was officially abandoned in 2020. 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 A high-voltage direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system (also called a power superhighway or an electrical superhighway) uses direct current (DC) for electric power transmission, in contrast with the more common alternating curren ...

NorNed is situated at Eemshaven. One endpoint of the COBRAcable HVDC transmission line to

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport town and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban population of 71,698 (1 January 2022)

, Denmark is also planned to be built here. Eemshaven is the landfall point for a high-speed transatlantic fiber-optic cable that connects the U.S. and Europe.

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On 23 September 2014,

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announced that it plans to spend $773 Million building a data center. Since 2022 this datacenter is up and running.

Ferry Eemshaven - Kristiansand

The ferry connection from Eemshaven to Kristiansand started April 2022 the 2020 founded cruise-ferry company

Holland Norway Lines Holland Norway Lines is a Dutch startup ferry operator which operates a passenger and car ferry service between Eemshaven, The Netherlands and Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The ...

is operating one ship, the

MS Romantika MS ''Romantika'' (Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian "Romantika" means "Romance" in English) is a cruiseferry owned by the Estonian ferry company Tallink. The ship is on charter to Holland Norway Lines on a route Kristiansand to Eemshaven. She ...

on a route between Eemshaven and

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, f ...

. The charter of the ship was announced on 1 November 2021, and is due to last three years with two one-year extensions.

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File:Eemshaven1.jpg, Picture of Eemshaven File:Goliath Poldermolen.jpg,

Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This type ...

Goliath in front of the

wind farm A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind tur ...

Growind Eemshaven officieel geopend Weeknummer 73-25 - Open Beelden - 77796.ogv, Opening 1973, newsreel

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* {{Authority control Transport in Het Hogeland Germany–Netherlands border crossings Ports and harbours of the Netherlands Ports and harbours of the North Sea Articles containing video clips 1973 establishments in the Netherlands

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Ferry Eemshaven - Kristiansand

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