CINCTRANS visits Netherlands ports
During his orientation tour in Europe, Handy paid a visit to MTMC's 598th Trans Gp. and the 838th Trans Bn. Both commands are co-located in Capelle aan den Ijssel, adjacent to world's busiest port, Rotterdam.
Brown, Baker and Lt. Cmdr. Gwynn Griffin, commander, Military Sealift Command office, Northern Europe, escorted the USTRANSCOM party during a tour in the Rotterdam Port aboard the ship DE NIEUWE MAEZE of the Rotterdam Municipal Port Authorities.
Pieter Struijs, director of the Rotterdam Port Authority and his staff briefed the TRANSCOM-MTMC-MSC party about procedures, working methods and force protection measures in the Rotterdam Port. During the tour in the Port of Rotterdam, Baker, briefed Handy about the 838th Trans Bn mission and the areas of operation in Rotterdam. She also introduced Th. Quast, director of Steinweg, one of MTMC's port contractors in Rotterdam.
Don Berghuijs, commander in chief, Fire Brigade of the greater Rotterdam-Rijnmond area, and his staff briefed the party about the leading role of the Rotterdam Fire Brigade in the Rotterdam Port. The Rotterdam Fire Brigade handles overall disaster control. Their safety philosophy and emergency services, disaster control and crisis management were explained at the new Rotterdam World Port Center building.
Handy also visited the port operations room where huge information displays inform the harbormaster about all ship activities in the port and at the entrance to the port, which reaches about 50 kilometers into the North Sea. Handy said he enjoyed his tour of the port operations center and took time to be informed about the high-tech port information displays which have similarities with the air control business.
Handy toured the MTMC building in Capelle aan den IJssel, met with the 598th staff and was briefed about 598th's and MSC office NOREUR's missions.
Rotterdam, geographically situated at the Delta of the Rivers Rhine and Maas, covers a main part of Europe's hinterland, and the MTMC assets in the Netherlands, which include Europe, Africa and South West Asia
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