Dutch waste management company AVR has resumed operations at its Rozenburg waste to energy (wte) plant near Rotterdam which had been out of commission since a major fire in September of last year the company announced that three of the plant's seven waste processing lines had been brought back online on 1 October The remaining four lines will also return to operation this year In addition to providing around 1.3 million tonnes per year of residual waste treatment capacity for the Rotterdam region the Rozenburg plant is also an important source of energy for the local district heating network AVR set up provisional heating boilers to ensure adequate district heating supply amid the prolonged plant closure AVR thanked the public and private entities which had provided support during the past year "That we are able to process the residual waste after only one year would not have been possible without the help of many agencies and companies," said AVR Customer Service+49 7224 9397-701servicenoSpam@GO-AWAYeuwid.de Editorial Team+49 7224 9397-0recyclingnoSpam@GO-AWAYeuwid.com Get the latest news about developments and trends in the industry sent to you once a week free of charge by newsletter Sign up for our newsletter We use cookies and external services on our website others enhance your user experience or help us improve this website You can change your privacy settings any time by clicking privacy policy Necessary cookies are required for the correct functioning of the website Content from video and social media platforms is blocked by default. 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Clip: Season 28 Episode 10 | 3m 31sVideo has Closed Captions | CC Appraisal: Rozenburg Eggshell Porcelain Vase Check out Suzanne Perrault’s appraisal of a Rozenburg eggshell porcelain vase Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines Additional funding is provided by public television viewers Link Copied to ClipboardHow to Watch Antiques RoadshowAntiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio. GUEST: My mother and I were visiting in England A friend of mine invited us to his mother's home for tea So she had it in her home until maybe seven or eight years ago And I basically just put it back in the box made by one of the world's greatest porcelain companies The Netherlands have a very long and rich history in making ceramics APPRAISER: ...which was ping-ponging back and forth between looking at Asia and moving the ceramics back and forth throughout the world in this rich blue and white texture They moved away from that with Art Nouveau but this particular line is done in eggshell porcelain one with this gorgeous bird-- this is very difficult to make-- and this one with this chrysanthemum They were doing other lines at the same time but this is what they became best known and best remembered for APPRAISER: I will show you how it's marked here which has become known since for the International Court of Justice And the gentleman who was in charge of this line was Samuel Schellink APPRAISER: Obviously a very talented fellow I haven't really given it much thought at all (laughs) APPRAISER: If you wished to insure it I would probably do this at about $4,000 or $5,000 Copyright © 2025 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Sign in with EmailNew to PBS? Create an account Are you sure you want to remove null from My List Steve Rozenburg: Our daughter Shannon is presently in a rehab facility Shannon has had a real run with substance abuse. She has been through 8 rehabs We have expended the vast majority of our savings for retirement along the way to try to salvage what we thought we could for her When we knew that we couldn’t control anything about anything in our lives or hers that’s when we pretty much just had to seek help from someone Narrator: Steve Rozenburg is a member of Grapevine First United Methodist Church in Texas along with his wife Donna.  All three of their children have struggled with substance abuse.  Cindy Ryan “We need to talk to you.” I didn’t know them or their story and when they came to me and told me their story about their three kids who all had difficult problems and then the daughter “We know we’re not going to find her anytime soon and we know she’s got big problems but what do we do Narrator: In today’s Experience Jesus Calling podcast we continue with stories from individual members of First United Methodist Church in Grapevine who each share their personal experiences about the impact Jesus Calling on their lives Donna and Steve Rozenburg married in 1988 and started attending Grapevine UMC with their blended family.  They recount their journey through the addictions of each of their children and the brokenness that led them to finally reach out for help Donna Rozenburg: My name is Donna Rozenburg We didn’t really get too much involved as much as I would have liked When we came to church community on Sunday before let’s get out before somebody asks us how we’re doing My oldest son Brandon started struggling after his girlfriend died and became heavily addicted to drugs that was pretty much all it took for Brandon to go off the deep end It was very painful to watch and it was very hard for us to understand not having had that type of a background and not knowing really how to deal with that Just seeing him disintegrate right before our eyes He wanted to be on any sports team in school He was very involved in anything that had to do with sports Sean is the middle child.  He was the clown of the family I thought that what he would end up doing. He had a way with words We started struggling with him when he was 16 basically skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd Steve: Peer pressure really came to bear for Sean then that led all the way up through full substance abuse issues that were uncontrollable for him as well She’s a very compassionate person.  She would be the one [who] would see somebody at the lunch table in middle school that nobody would sit by and she would go over there because she didn’t want them to be alone That was the furthest thing from my mind that she would go down that road So [the] first time we started seeing the big struggle was when she started high school.  Then you start getting in your cliques and that’s when we started to see the little clues of smoking and drinking and drugs Steve: It basically culminated with the use of heroin at the behest of one of her so-called friends. That’s when we finally discovered it That’s what led to her first trip to rehab Donna: We had gone to Colorado to see Brandon for his treatment for MS she had gone off to do an errand and I had found in her purse that she had syringes in her purse… stunned “We’re going to have to send her to rehab.” And she talked us out of that and said of course excuses and just continued on. Then her boyfriend had called me about a week later and said ‘Shannon was trying to get into his apartment and I just want to break up with her She’s threatening to kill herself.’ we found out that she endured not only physical but emotional trauma and had become addicted to heroin for a period of about 8 months we had to gather her up as she left one of them against medical advice She traveled across several states with 2 young men maybe every few days and make up a story and tell us this or that and she was fine and she was actually actively using at that time That’s when things really came to a head for us Narrator: The Rozenburgs were at the end of their rope.  Shannon had been through 8 rehabs and each time would return to her drug problem Not knowing their daughter’s location to be able to help her brought Donna and Steve to an even lower place the Rozenburgs decided to they couldn’t handle this alone and reached out to Cindy Ryan at the church for guidance “We need to talk to you.” So I didn’t know them or their story and when they came to me and told me their story about their three kids who all had difficult problems and then the daughter We talked about how little we can control and then I just I recommended to them what had helped me It will calm you down it will remind you to stay on the present day It will help give you scriptures that you can pull on It’s a resource that I think will really help Steve: She talked to us at length and we came up with a plan that we had done everything basically we could and that was a recommendation for a small book that she referenced called Jesus Calling And that’s where our story starts with Jesus Calling Donna: It was late that night and we got in the car “Do you want to go get the book?” and he said it’s kinda late.” The next day kinda went by went by and the next day All of a sudden we just happened to be somewhere to where I looked up and there is a Barnes & Noble “Let’s get the book.”  Steve’s in the car and I go running in I came home and it’s changed our lives Steve: It was concise and it just gave a great punch of a message in a short amount of time It was something that was easy to digest and it wasn’t too much to try to digest It was something that we felt like we could deal with in a daily span For whatever situation I was going through it would make me go to my Bible and I would read it and then I would start reading a little after and a little before it Steve: Jesus Calling made it possible for me to really relate to people on a different level I feel like that I had been swallowing a lot of things for a lot of years When people would really ask how are you doing it was always a pat answer of ‘fine’ And really I found it much easier to tell people That just led to more conversations that we found things in common that we didn’t know we shared I would say it felt like a tire that you just let all the air out of It just was such a relief to finally have it all out there for someone else to hear at least the situation that we were in As we came to know through Cindy and others we weren’t the only ones that were facing issues We felt much more relieved and much more in tune with what we needed to do and how we could deal with our own lives Donna: As we were reading Jesus Calling every day And then I realized our story wasn’t much different from a lot of people just opening up to Cindy was able to just start the process just think if Cindy could have a basket full of books.  So when people come in that don’t have money or don’t have the time But the actual fact of just having the book right there and just hand it to you. And I thought I’m just going to get a whole bunch of books and take it to her and hopefully she can pass these out and maybe we’re not the only people with problems Narrator: Donna and Steve’s journey through their children’s addiction was far from over.  But through their pain they were able to reach out and reconnect with their church family and find hope for the future Cindy: I think it was weeks or months later that they came back and said ‘We still haven’t found our daughter but thank you so much for recommending Jesus Calling because it made all the difference’ maybe even months more that they called and said ‘We found her She’s really addicted but we’re going to go get her and take her to rehab.’ Shannon saw Jesus Calling in the floorboard of the car “What is that book.” I said “It’s Jesus Calling.” She said I have heard of that book “How did you hear of that book?” She said “A lot of people had that book in rehab.” And I said Cindy Ryan had told us about it and we got it He just looked at me and I handed it to her and I said [through] many ups and downs and where she’s been The resources that we have found through Jesus Calling through prayer that we have expanded in our minds and our hearts just a great depth to our lives that we previously hadn’t experienced Something we never anticipated led to many many good things and hopefully will lead to more because when all of these kids go through rehab a lot of them have just been successful When you’ve gone through so much and you have so much to share with somebody else if I can give anybody any glimpse of hope that there is life at the end of the tunnel then it just made me… it’s changed my whole perspective on I never thought years to come that I would ever want to be just thinking of things other than retirement or whatever people normally do — go to some city in Florida and sit on a beach and retire. All I can think about is wanting to help people and give back to people and share what I have gone through to help someone else Steve: I feel like there has been many opportunities for me to do things for others that normally I wouldn’t have been able to do through the grace of God I had experienced a very bad car wreck and probably shouldn’t be here more than once I feel like that I’m here to support Donna help bring my children back into the fold as much as God will allow and God is willing and to provide whatever I can for other people in terms of helping them find their way or comforting them along the way Donna: Shannon was struggling and had called us about she didn’t know what she was going to do about moving “I wonder if she’s read Jesus Calling today.” And so I pulled it out and screenshot a picture of it and sent it to her “That’s exactly what I needed to hear.” A portion of it was Thankfulness opens your heart to My presence and your mind to My thoughts You may be still in the same place with the same set of circumstances that it is if a light has been switched on It is the light of my presence that removes the sting from adversity That just sums up what she was going through that day Steve: Shannon is doing well for the most part We are 6 months out now as of a few days ago She is not totally self-sufficient but she has taken giant strides. But we know with the help of Jesus Calling and our church family and God that we will be able to make it on our own We feel that we’re all moving in a positive direction Donna: Jesus Calling has given me hope that I never had before It’s taught me trust and I can’t do it all myself I’ve always been the fixer person to try to fix everybody’s situation Narrator: The Rozenburgs put their faith in God and found peace even in the most dire of circumstances Their desire is that others find the same peace they’ve found and through their faithfulness have provided Jesus Calling books through the church for those who are looking for hope in their own circumstances It’s been years long in the struggle but they really began by giving the book to me and giving it to other people sort of that same kind of step of faith that just has caused ripples that we’re just now seeing the results of Narrator: It is those ripples that swept through this congregation and touched numerous lives In the coming weeks we’ll hear about the impact that Steve and Donna’s faithfulness to share their Jesus Calling experience has had on so many and how they also found hope and peace in its pages Next time on the Experiencing Jesus Calling Podcast…we hear from another family at Grapevine United Methodist with their touching story of the legacy of a mother’s love  I have been attending First United Methodist Church of Grapevine my whole life Brent: My name is Brent Wicke and my mom was my best friend as well  I was four years old when my mom was diagnosed with brain cancer  I didn’t know how severe it was Monica:  She told me that she wasn’t afraid to die and that’s a very scary thing to hear as a child from your mom but it’s so beautiful because she was so at peace with everything and that’s the legacy she wanted to leave and that’s the impact she leaves on me  To just know that even if things aren’t going the way you want them to Narrator: The story of one woman’s exceptional life and the tangible gift her children are giving today because of the peace she found in the pages of Jesus Calling…next time on the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast Our excerpt from Jesus Calling for this show comes from the November 24th entry: Thankfulness opens your heart to My presence  You may still be in the same place with the same set of circumstances but it is as if a light has been switched on  It is this light of My presence that removes the sting from adversity Do you have an experience with Jesus Calling that has had an impact on your life? We’d love to hear from you.  Visit www.jesuscalling.com and share your story with us I would really like to make an encounter with this book and this story once again shows me that Jesus is alive I recently made my way to Him but find myself relapsing again and I want to serve Him whole heartedly because I’m struggling with alot of emotional issues from my childhood I recently had a breakthrough about two weeks back but then I just fell by the wayside again I’m looking for a church family cause I feel very alone in my struggle and I want my own family to follow me please give me guidance in Jesus Name I read Jesus Calling every morning and every night and its spot on Whatever I’m going through I know God is speaking to me through this book If your reading this I urge you to pick up a copy These information are very helpful and well-timed for my cousin’s addiction Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" ©2025 HarperCollins Christian Publishers Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" The Wind Wall of Rozenburg is a unique installation designed to block strong winds from hitting the large ships passing through a narrow canal on their way to the port the Dutch port city of Rozenburg grew both in size and prosperity and in order to cope with the ever-growing maritime traffic a new canal parallel to the already existing Nieuwe Vaterveg canal was built in the 1960s named after the civil engineer who built Nieuwe Vaterveg was a massive success but it wasn’t long before it too became overwhelmed by the ships using it These giant cargo ships were so big that the strong wind blowing from the sea threatened to alter their course as they passed through the narrow canal and leave them stuck So local authorities started looking for solutions Photo: Quisnix/Wikimedia Commons In the mid-1980s, architect Martin Struyis and artist Frans de Wit were commissioned to come up with a wind barrier that was both efficient and easy on the eye. Their design featured over 100 concrete slabs some of which had a concave shape, lined up over a distance of 1.75 kilometers. Their creation became known as the Wind Wall of Rozenburg. In the southern part of the Qalandia Canal, the wind wall is made up of 18-meter-wide and 25-meter-long concrete structures, while near the bridge, the pattern of the wall changes. The concrete slabs are only 4-meters-wide but they are closer together. Although the Wind Wall of Rozenburg looks more like an art installation, it reduces the power of the wind hitting the canal by up to 75 percent, thus allowing even the largest cargo ship to traverse it without issues. Around 20,000 ships go through the Rozenburg Lock each year. The lock provides easy access to and from the western port area. Since several parts of the lock are in need of replacement, the lock will be renovated. We will convert the lock into a remote-operated lock, including with the use of cameras. After the renovation, the lock will be prepared for the future. We will renew and reinforce the fender piles on the north side of the lock (in the Brittanniëhaven) and extend them further. The reason therefore is to provide additional protection for the pillars of the Theemsweg railway line against possible collisions by ships. We are also creating a new berth for ships. The work for the first renovation phase, the north fender piles, is expected to start in August 2023. The targeted completion of the first renovation phase is scheduled for February 2024. The preparation of a Design and Construct contract for rest of the renovation work has been started in cooperation with the engineering firm. We expect to tender the remaining renovation work in the first quarter of 2024. We will perform the work on the north fender piles with minimum inconvenience for the local residents. Very limited disruption is expected for road traffic. 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You can do this here Arcadis has been commissioned by the Port of Rotterdam to prepare for the renovation of the Rozenburg lock complex near Rotterdam The complex consists of a double-ended lock with two bridges that has connected the Caland Canal to the Hartel Canal since 1971 The tender expressly included a vision for how scope workability and feasibility would be integrated The lock was built by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and is 1,000 feet long 79 feet wide and suitable for ships up to and including the CEMT-VIc waterway class (i.e the second largest vessel designation for inland waterways of international importance) The Rozenburg lock is part of a shipping route that is essential for accessibility to and from the western port area with twenty thousand ships passing through it each year Arcadis is drawing up the design and construction contract for the work determining the scope for the renovation and calculating the expected investments needed to restore the various lock components Arcadis is also looking at how to organize 'remote operation' in a way that will ensure the complex aligns with laws and regulations (health and safety building code) and guarantee its service life over the next 50 years 'We are proud of this renovation and replacement assignment,' says project director Wolter Seinen 'This waterway is where the various parts of our company flow together our designs and recommendations will be the basis on which the contractor selected by the Port will tackle the work.' 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You can find more information on the individual external services in our privacy policy the crane vessel Thialf arrived alongside the Sleipnir at the Landtong Rozenburg (Rozenburg Spit) The Sleipnir - the largest semi-submersible crane vessel in the world - was put into service at the end of last year the LNG-powered vessel arrived in Rotterdam for the first time Heerema and the Port Authority are working hard on installing shore-based power for Heerema’s berth on the Landtong It is expected that the vessels will be able to connect to the shore-based power in spring Close this window to continue your previous journey or click on the button below to go to the homepage in your selected language Waste management company AVR continues to grapple with the aftermath of a major fire that swept through its waste-to-energy (wte) plant in Rozenburg near Rotterdam in late September The Dutch company is still working with claims experts to assess the damage from the fire it had become clear that it would be months before the plant could be brought back into operation The company said it now expected to be able to restart the wte plant in October 2024 Read the full article including AVR's plans for 2024.. An installation has been constructed on the Rozenburg Peninsula in Rotterdam so that Heerema’s large vessels can shut down their diesel generators and switch to power from the wind turbines on the peninsula This shore-based power installation will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2021 have now made arrangements with Vopak Europoort to conduct a feasibility study for the use of shore-based power at this terminal Vopak Europoort is located on the opposite side of the Calandkanaal of Heerema’s berth A study is therefore being conducted to establish whether and how the installation that now stands on the peninsula can also be deployed for Vopak Europort terminal where large tankers berth Connecting vessels of this kind to shore-based power poses several significant technical challenges and is therefore hardly done anywhere else in the world It is hoped that the feasibility study that Vopak and Rotterdam Shore Power are currently conducting will find effective technical and commercial solutions to these challenges and that they may set an international standard Vopak and Rotterdam Shore Power’s study focuses on safety as well as the project’s technical and economic feasibility: what is needed to realize it how much will it cost and how much will it yield The study will be completed in the summer of 2021 Managing Director of Vopak Europoort: 'We are very excited about working with our partners on developing the concept This could result in significant reductions in emissions at ports.' A key benefit of shore-based power is that less nitrogen dioxide particulate matter and CO2 are released into the atmosphere This reduces air pollution and combats climate change Shore-based power also has the potential to reduce the noise of ships’ engines the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the City of Rotterdam put forward a joint shore-based power strategy Its objective is for eight to ten shore-based power projects to be completed before 2025 to learn from them and then to roll-out shore-based power on a large scale in the port of Rotterdam after 2025 has the capacity to process around 1.3 million tonnes of waste a year The plant has been offline since the fire... Dutch investment and advisory services company Zuyderzee Capital has formed a joint venture with former DVB Bank investment managers Edwin Jager and Roland Rutgers van Rozenburg to offer shipping investment management called Zuyderzee Shipping & Intermodal Investment Management will see Jager and van Rozenburg as managing directors focused on managing transportation assets including shipping and intermodal investments for third party investors Before joining Zuyderzee Shipping & Intermodal Investment Management in June 2021 Jager had been employed since 2012 with the investment management division of DVB responsible for a portfolio of investments in the shipping Jager was managing director and global head of shipping & intermodal at NIBC Van Rozenburg joined Zuyderzee Shipping & Intermodal Investment Management after having spent more than 20 years in the transportation industry where he was responsible for DVB’s intermodal and rail investment fund activities van Rozenburg worked for the leasing company Touax in the principal finance group of Fortis Bank DVB, once one of the world’s most important sources of shipping finance, announced its exit from the sector in 2019 and has since seen a host of well-known names move to pastures new Don't have an account? A fire which initially broke out on Thursday in the main turbine hall of AVR's waste to energy plant in Rozenburg near Rotterdam has been extinguished Firefighters had declared the fire under control late Thursday afternoon becoming a major blaze and producing heavy smoke The fire was finally put out Saturday morning... Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising A fire in a warehouse in Rozenburg near Schiphol forced incoming flights to divert to a different runway on Saturday night to avoid thick smoke, De Telegraaf reported. The fire was extinguished later that evening The fire broke out in a warehouse on Aalsmeerderweg the decision was made to divert flights from the Kaagbaan to the Aalsmeerbaan to prevent planes from flying through the smoke according to the Veiligheidsregio Kennemerland and firefighters remained on-site to conduct damping-down operations A spokesperson for Schiphol confirmed that air traffic could return to planned routes shortly afterward The incident and the temporary runway change had no impact on the airport’s capacity and flight schedules remained unchanged throughout the evening Emergency responders checked one person who had inhaled a significant amount of smoke The fire department advised local residents to keep their windows and doors closed due to smoke in the area The Port of Rotterdam Authority is going to place a new set of piles and extend two existing sets of piles along Landtong Rozenburg in the Calandkanaal Expansion is therefore necessary to attract new cargo flows transhipment on piles and buoys in the Port of Rotterdam has increased from 16 million to 20 million tonnes in 2019 The installation is in line with the policy of the Port of Rotterdam Authority to modernise the port area and use it more efficiently the Port Authority wants to retain its leading position in the crude oil oil products and LNG segment and strengthen it further the buoys in the Calandkanaal were replaced by dolphin configurations extra dolphin configurations (Dolphins 81) to be added had been taken into account at the time some dolphins will be added to Dolphins 82 and 84 The dolphin configurations in the Calandkanaal are part of a total of 29 berths at buoys and dolphins in the port of Rotterdam The berths are an attractive addition to the transhipment options near the terminals and offer a safe alternative to STS on the open sea Nowhere in Northwest Europe are there as many STS possibilities as in Rotterdam Vessels of all sizes can moor at the buoys and dolphins 24/7 The berths are not only used for ship-to-ship transfer but also for bunkering and for repair and maintenance activities (in the hold or hull It is expected that De Klerk BV in Werkendam will install the new dolphins in the Calandkanaal this year Following last week's major fire at its Rozenburg waste-to-energy (wte) plant Dutch company AVR presented a plan for dealing with some of its incoming waste shipments the municipal waste that would otherwise have been treated at Rozenburg will instead be delivered to the "De Spinder" landfill in Tilburg the streets will remain clean," AVR said in a statement issued Wednesday Attero clarified in response to EUWID that AVR waste being brought to the Tilburg landfill in the coming weeks would only be stored there temporarily and that it would later undergo energy recovery... There were multiple violent incidents in the Netherlands overnight and two got hurt in separate stabbings in Etten-Leur and Rozenburg And two people got injured in shootings in Venlo and Muiden The police responded to a report of a stabbing in a home on Leurse Dijk in Etten-Leur at around 5:00 a.m. on Friday. Responding officers found a body outside and two wounded people inside the home, the Breda police said on Twitter Paramedics took the two wounded to a hospital A man died in a stabbing on Raadhuisplein in Rozenburg at around 10:00 p.m. on Thursday. Two men got into an argument, which escalated into a stabbing, the police said First responders tried to resuscitate the wounded man One person got hurt in a shooting on Herengracht in Muiden at around 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The police arrested one suspect and were looking for two others, the Gooi- en Vechtstreek police said on Twitter. a person got hurt in a shooting in a parking lot on the square in the Blerick district around 10:00 p.m The police are looking for the perpetrator and asked witnesses to come forward Judge Peter Murphy delivered a judgment on Monday that is learned Murphy is no ordinary circuit judge. Before joining the bench in 2007 he practised and taught law in both London and the US. The author of a standard textbook on evidence, he was the founding editor of Blackstone's Criminal Practice a comprehensive handbook now in its 23rd edition Although the judge heard oral argument at Blackfriars crown court in London last Thursday his written ruling was not something he had knocked up over the weekend Murphy made it clear that he was dealing with all face-coverings and that his ruling should apply both to male or female defendants of any or no religious faith It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down He was also careful not to get distracted by the question of whether an individual Muslim sincerely believed that she should keep her face covered in the presence of men who were not close members of her family It would be unseemly and ultimately impossible to decide the degree of sincerity in individual cases A court should assume sincerity unless there was evidence that a face-covering was being worn as some sort of disguise Murphy also stressed that he was dealing only with the case of a defendant facing trial in the crown court His ruling did not apply to witnesses or jurors Nor did it apply to parties in civil or family cases does it apply to students at colleges or people walking down the street It's qualified in the sense that it is subject to such restrictions as are necessary to protect the rights and freedoms of others include people who come before the courts as claimants witnesses and jurors – as well as the public at large The defendant in this case is charged with witness intimidation She is alleged to have committed the offence while wearing the niqab a dark veil that covers the entire face except for the eyes No issue of visual identification will arise at the trial But we may assume that the complainant – the man she is said to have intimidated – will give oral evidence It is unfair to ask a witness to give evidence against a defendant whom he cannot see It is unfair to ask a juror to pass judgment on a person whom she cannot see It is unfair to expect that juror to try to evaluate the evidence given by a person whom she cannot see deprived of an essential tool for doing so: namely being able to observe the demeanour of the witness; her reaction to being questioned; her reaction to other evidence as it is given These are not trivial or superficial invasions of the procedure of the adversarial trial they require a compromise of the quality of criminal justice delivered by the trial process and they may render it altogether impotent to deliver a fair and just outcome Murphy correctly identified the balance that he had to strike He rightly said that the jury must be able to see the defendant if she gives evidence But he did not think she should have to remove her veil at other times "While it remains true that juries scrutinise defendants throughout the proceedings and take note of a defendant's reaction to the evidence as it is given throughout the trial," the judge said "I am not persuaded that this is of sufficient importance to require a restriction on the defendant's right to wear the niqab." is that the defendant is under no obligation to give evidence Murphy would not allow her to do so if she refused to remove her niqab the jurors would not be able to assess her demeanour while her alleged victim gave evidence in a case of alleged intimidation the complainant might not wish to look at the defendant's face while in the witness box Whether a witness should be able to see the defendant while giving evidence should be a matter for the witness and ultimately the judge to decide a defendant should be required to show her face throughout her trial Failure to remove a veil when ordered to do so should be treated as contempt of court But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view His ruling is not binding on any other judge and he clearly hopes it will come before a higher court in order to set a precedent His compromise ruling gives both sides a basis on which they might appeal There is one further aspect of the ruling that causes concern The judge ruled that no drawing or sketch of the defendant while her face is uncovered must be "published outside court" court artists are allowed to publish drawings made from memory Murphy gives no indication that he heard legal argument from media representatives before restricting their right to freedom of expression under article 10 of the convention be allowed to prevent an image of herself being published This article was amended on 17 September 2013 The Suricates project (Sediment Use as Resource in Circular And Territorial EconomieS)  implements new large scale solutions for re-using sediments in ports waterways and Coastlines of North West Europe (Interreg NWE programme) Solutions are available to the authorities port and waterway managers and experts in erosion control The Suricates project (Sediment Use as Resource in Circular And Territorial EconomieS)  implements new large scale solutions for re-using sediments in ports erosion and the increased risk of flooding attenuation measures need to be ramped up continuously and this involves large quantities of natural sources EU ports and waterways providing access for shipping are faced with the problem of managing dredged sediments totalling 200 million m3 / year (80 million tonnes) just 1% dredged marine sediments ( 800.000tonnes / year) are re use The aim of the European project Suricates is to increase the re use of these sediments to combat the risks of flooding and erosion In order to improve regional resilience to climate change plans have been made to re uses sediments at three Suricates pilot sites Overall 220.000 tonnes of sediments will be use as raw material in for innovative projects for the building of resilient protection systems The large-scale (200.000 tonnes / 500,000 m3) reallocation of sediment in the port will restore a more natural sediment balance in the port and contribute to erosion and flood protection of the shore The project is carried out with Port of Rotterdam and supported by RWS and Deltares The aim and reason is to determine the sediment balance before during and after reallocation Living lab projects based on Building with Nature often struggle to determine the exact impact of the intervention in this case the impact on the sediment balance around the Maesland barrier (Nieuwe Waterweg) The combination of intensive surveys and new measurement techniques accurately determines this sediment balance and thus the effectiveness of the reallocation the foreshore development of the building with nature project "Groene Poort" will be enhanced and monitored The new stops and routes provide shorter travel times to and from Maasvlakte and Europoort The Maasvlaktehopper now runs between Maassluis Centre Maasland viaduct and Rugge bus station in Brielle and various stops along the Maasvlakte and Europoort These journey times reflect the working hours of shift workers and office workers at the port bus lines 102 and 105 will run via the Maasdelta Tunnel connecting Voorne-Putten & Rozenburg with Schiedam Driving to Schiedam via the Maasdelta Tunnel and Holland Tunnel will significantly reduce journey times for many travellers especially those heading to the centre of Rotterdam