The FutureLand Express departs once daily?three times on Sunday?in front of FutureLand, the information center of the latest extension of the Port of Rotterdam. The bus tours Maasvlakte 2, as the area is called, for seventy-five minutes, showing visitors 2,000 hectares of artificial ground for port activities and ?nature?. The dredging of 240 million cubic meters of sand for land reclamation was just beginning in 2008; back then, this was, literally, future land. However, FutureLand?s promise of witnessing the future through a bus window goes beyond sightseeing record-breaking civil engineering works. Maasvlakte 2 is also home of the two most technologically advanced container terminals in the world.

The automatic workers: Lift AGVs with ARMG and STS cranes at the APM Terminals terminal in Maasvlakte 2, Rotterdam (© APM Terminals). Image Courtesy of Volume
The FutureLand Express departs once daily?three times on Sunday?in front of FutureLand, the information center of the latest extension of the Port of Rotterdam. The bus tours Maasvlakte 2, as the area is called, for seventy-five minutes, showing visitors 2,000 hectares of artificial ground for port activities and ?nature?. The dredging of 240 million cubic meters of sand for land reclamation was just beginning in 2008; back then, this was, literally, future land. However, FutureLand?s promise of witnessing the future through a bus window goes beyond sightseeing record-breaking civil engineering works. Maasv...