Inland port dues

You should submit the report of your call in the port area within 18 days of your arrival.

The inner port area comprises:
Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Zwijndrecht, Papendrecht, Vlaardingen, Schiedam and the jetties and quays of the Vopak Terminal Vlaardingen

If you use the port of Rotterdam and (one of) the above ports in the same period, for example, you only need to submit one report.If you choose to submit your Inland Port Dues via the Webopgave, in combination with a one-off authorisation or direct debit, you will receive an administrative discount of 2%. Click here to open the form that can be used to authorise the Port of Rotterdam Authority to draw funds from your bank account via direct debit.

Yes, this is possible via the web portal. Select change subscription or cancel subscription after the relevant statement.

if you are using port facilities in one of the aforementioned municipalities in connection with repair work on your vessel at a local wharf, you may be exempt from the associated inland port tariffs.

This exemption is subject to the following conditions:

* The repairs are necessary to ensure that the vessel remains operational;
* The repairs are not allowed to take longer than strictly required;
* The owner/master of the vessel needs to submit a written application for exemption from the inland port tariffs, accompanied by a statement on repairs issued by the responsible wharf, to the Port of Rotterdam Authority within 24 hours upon arriving at the wharf.

You can apply for this exemption by sending a completed copy of the application form
‘Application for an Exemption - Part I’ to havengelden.

Notifying the Port Authority of the end of repairs

After your repairs have been rounded off, you are once again required to inform the Port of Rotterdam Authority within 24 hours by forwarding a statement on repairs issued by the wharf. Please use the form ‘Statement on Repairs - Part II’ for this purpose.
The fully completed form - bearing the company stamp of the ship repair facility - needs to be send to havengelden.

Following the port dues statement you will receive an invoice which must be paid within 30 days. If you do not agree with the invoice you have received, you may object in writing within 30 days of the invoice date. If checks show that you have not reported your visit to the port, or did not report it correctly, inland port dues will be recalculated in accordance with the highest tariff payable. You will also liable for a 100% surcharge over this amount (minimum €25.00).

Do you have a new ship or sold your ship? Are you moved or have your company data changed? Please send a message to havengelden.

The Rotterdam port area includes the ports of the municipalities of Rotterdam, Vlaardingen, Schiedam, Dordrecht, Zwijndrecht and Papendrecht, as well as the jetties of Vopak Terminal Vlaardingen.

Commercial inland vessels are statutorily required to submit a port dues statement as soon as they enter the Rotterdam port area. The commercial shipping category includes cargo vessels, commercial passenger vessels such as river cruise liners, and other inland vessels such as floating cranes, workboats and pontoons.

You are required to submit your statement within 18 calendar days of your first use of the Rotterdam port area via our web portal.

You are not required to submit a statement if you have previously submitted a statement for a specific term (e.g. 7 days) and re-enter and leave the Rotterdam port area within the specified period.

No, a port dues statement is valid for all municipalities within the boundaries of the Rotterdam port area within the specified period

You can submit your statement for inland port dues in digital form via our web portal. If you have not yet registered an account for our web portal, simply click on Apply for log-in name. Once you have entered and submitted your details, we will process your application. We will subsequently send you an email that includes a link that you can use to set up your password. After this you are free to submit statements via your account.

Select your vessel via the vessel’s name or ENI number and check the vessel details. Proceed to select the appropriate stay term/subscription option (7 days, 14 days, month, quarter or yearly subscription) and enter the start date. You can cover multiple vessels with one and the same statement. After entering your vessel and subscription details, you are asked to select your preferred method of payment. If you select direct debit as your payment option, we will give you a 2% discount for administrative fees on your invoice total. You can finalise and submit your statement after agreeing with our general terms and conditions.

Our staff will be happy to help should you encounter any problems submitting your statement. Please email your question to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com or call our team on +31 10 252 15 23.

You will receive an administration discount of 2% on your Inland Port Dues invoice if you select one-off direct debit or – in the case of an annual subscription – direct debit in six instalments in the Inland Port Dues web portal.

If you cannot select this option in the web portal, please download the SEPA form here and send it completed and signed to binnenhavengeld@portofrotterdam.com.

Yes, you can submit statements for more than one client, company and/or vessel via a single account.

Do you still need to set up an account for yourself? To register, go to the web portal and click on Apply for log-in name. Please specify for which third parties you would like to submit statements on the form.

If you have already set up an account for submitting your own statements (i.e. not on the behalf of third parties), please send an email to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com stating for which third party or parties you would like to submit statements via the web portal. Please include all relevant company information as well as specify to which party the associated invoices need to be addressed.

Your password may be older than 140 days, which means that it has expired. In that case, click on ‘I forgot my password’ (without entering your log-in name). You will subsequently be asked to enter and submit your log-in name (the email address you used to register your account). We will send an email to your email address that contains a link that allows you to set a new password. This password needs to be different to the passwords you used on the previous five occasions.

You can choose between:

* 7 days
* 14 days
* 1 month (vessels that belong to the Other Vessels category, e.g. pontoons, floating equipment, etc)
* 1 quarter
* 1 year

If your vessel regularly makes port calls in The Rotterdam port area, it may be more economical to take a yearly subscription. A yearly subscription offers 17 weeks of savings over port calls at the 7-day rate.

In addition, the yearly subscription is the only option that gives you the choice of paying your invoice amount in six instalments. Naturally, you are also free to settle your entire invoice in a single payment via direct debit. In both cases, we will give you a 2% discount for administrative fees on your invoice total.

No, the term of a yearly subscription is always a full calendar year: from 1 January to 31 December.

Your stay term for port dues is not based on your exact time of arrival. Rather, it starts at midnight, and the first day of your stay is always recorded as a full day. In the above example, your 14-day stay term runs from 25-04-2021, midnight (0:00) to 9-5-2021, noon (12:00). If you are still using our port area after 12 noon, you will be required to submit a new statement effective as of 9-5-2021.

You have until 18 calendar days after starting to use our port area to submit your statement. You will only be able to convert your 7-day term to a 14-day term if you have not yet been invoiced for the original 7-day term.

Please notify us as soon as possible by means of an email to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. In your email, specify the name and ENI number of the vessel for which you wish to submit a statement, as well as the invoice name. This will allow us to process your statement in our system.

Please send an email with all relevant documentation to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. Our staff will work to process the transaction in the vessel registry as soon as possible.

Please forward your vessel’s GT statement to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com and inform our team which company name you would like to link to the vessel. Our staff will work to link the vessel to your account as soon as possible and will send you an email confirmation afterwards.

If your ship is not listed in the web portal or the details are incorrect, click on the Support logo in the portal. Provide all the relevant ship information and attach supporting documents, such as the measurement certificate or other relevant documentation.  Once your ship has been added or the corrections have been made, you will receive a confirmation.

No, you will not be required to submit an inland port fees statement – provided the repairs take place at an authorised repair yard. Don't forget to report the repair work within 24 hours after arrival at the ship repair facility using the Application for Exemption Inner Port Dues Part I form and to have the Repair Declaration Inner Port Dues Part II form filled in by the ship repair facility and sent with a company stamp. Only when both forms have been sent will the exemption be processed!

No, the only ports that work with a 3-hour provisioning exemption is Dordrecht, at the locations Hooikade and Papendrechtsestraat and Zwijndrecht, at the Zomerlustkade.

Every Monday morning, we draw up and send out invoices for all statements that came in during the previous week.

Please submit your objection in writing to the Port of Rotterdam Authority within three months of the invoice date. You can do so by sending an email to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. Please include all the relevant documents that prove that the invoice or surcharge in question is unfounded. Should the Port of Rotterdam Authority establish that you have indeed paid too much or too little or have received an unwarranted invoice or surcharge, the amount will be settled via a new invoice or credit note.

If you have taken out a yearly subscription and sell your vessel at some point in the year, you can apply for a refund for the unused term by sending an email to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. Please include all documents confirming the sale of your vessel with your refund request. Your refund will be calculated based on the remaining full months of your subscription.

Please ask for a copy of the invoice via havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. We will forward this copy to you as soon as possible via email.

A reminder letter is issued only once per year. If you fail to submit a declaration for your vessel again later in the same year, you will receive a signal invoice with a 100% surcharge.

The entire inland shipping sector contributes to sustainability through a sustainability contribution of 5%. The proceeds from this contribution are reserved and allocated to initiatives aimed at enhancing sustainability within the sector.

You are eligible for a 5% Emissions Data Discount for your vessel if you hold a Green Award Certificate and share your emissions data with the Port of Rotterdam Authority via the Green Award system. This data is used to develop policies that support the sustainability of inland shipping.

Push barges that are propelled by a push boat and share their location data with the Port of Rotterdam Authority via a tracker receive a 5% discount on inland port dues. Sharing this data enhances safety within the port and provides insights into the utilisation of push-barge berths.

We will send you a detection invoice when we have not received a port dues statement for your vessel despite the fact that it has been encountered in the Rotterdam port area.

Every day, we check which vessels have called on our port area. If your vessel has been encountered in the port area, but we have not received the relevant statement for port dues, we will add a 100% surcharge (of a minimum amount of € 25) to your invoice.

If you decline to submit a statement, or submit an incorrect statement, the Port of Rotterdam Authority will add a 25% surcharge (of a minimum amount of € 25) to the invoice for relevant port dues.

In cases where you have submitted an incorrect statement but have not yet received an invoice, please contact the Port Dues team as soon as possible via havengelden@portofrotterdam.com, specifying which details need to be changed.

You can review the current rates in the port area here.

You can review the current general terms and conditions in the port area here.

Vessels with a Green Award certificate (issued to ships that are extra clean and safe) enjoy a discount on inland port dues in the Rotterdam port area. The exact discount percentage depends on the type of certificate awarded to the vessel. This discount applies to every term of stay in the port area. For further information on how you can apply for a certificate for your vessel, please contact the Green Award foundation or visit their website: www.greenaward.org.

You don’t have to notify us: every week, the Green Award foundation sends us an overview of all Green Award certified vessels. We subsequently assign these vessels to the relevant environmental categories.

Please fill in the form found here and email a copy of the completed and signed form with the accompanying documents (installation declaration and CCR2 certificate) to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com.

With the exception of sea-going vessels, vessels intended for passenger transport, tugboats, pontoons, floating work boats, other vessels and leisure vessels (surface vessels excluding pusher tugs), you can take on 6 m3 free of charge per 24 hours. If you take on more drinking water, Evides will invoice you separately for this. An exception is made for Dordrecht, Papendrecht and Zwijndrecht. If you take on drinking water here, a free total of up to 6 m3 does not apply.

Feel free to contact us on tel. +31 (10) 252 15 23 or send an email to havengelden@portofrotterdam.com. Our team members will be happy to help you.