Media item

Harbour day

Week number 65-40

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
02:05
Publication date:
1 October 1965
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER654-HRE00016794

On the harbour day in Rotterdam, guests from here and abroad are driven in busses through Pernis, the Botlek and the Europoort, with a.o. refineries and transshipment companies. The next day the personnel of an American oil company in the Europoort goes ashore at the new oil refinery with the passenger ship Rotterdam. Minister Joop den Uyl of Economic Affairs the opens the refinery by unveiling a modern sculpture in the presence of a.o. Whiteford, the president of the company.