Outages at the terminal: What happens behind the scenes?

Behind-the-scenes on planned outages: how the terminal stays future-proof

At APM Terminals Maasvlakte II, we strive daily to maximise reliability, safety and efficiency. Sometimes that also means: temporarily standing still to move forward. On 26 February 2025, a planned outage took place in which our Terminal Operating System was completely updated and replaced - a major operation with an even greater impact on the future.

Such an outage provides an opportunity to carry out other technical and operational work in addition to the planned software upgrades, which is difficult to fit into daily operations.

In our latest video, we take you behind the scenes:

• What exactly happens during an outage?
• What work is carried out?
• How do we ensure that - even during downtime - we continue to build tomorrow's terminal?