It has not yet been officially decided that the Rotterdam De Hef bridge will be dismantled to allow Jeff Bezos’ ship to pass. The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, told this on Thursday AD said. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the municipality of Rotterdam added NRC know that the college had decided to dismantle the monumental bridge next summer for the new yacht of the American billionaire and founder of e-commerce company Amazon.
The municipality has not even received a permit application yet, according to the mayor. If it does come, he will first want to weigh up interests. ,,The economic, especially the maritime image of our region, and the technical: is it possible without damage? And we then want to know whether the costs are indeed reimbursed by the buyer. I understand it’s election time, but let everyone wait and see what we decide.”
Ship and yacht builder Oceanco is currently building a yacht for Bezos in Alblasserdam, South Holland, with a vertical clearance of almost 47 meters. De Hef is on the ship’s route and to allow it to pass under the bridge, the middle section of the bridge will have to be removed.
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