Construction start for new Terneuzen lock 'giant step closer'

Melanie Schultz van Haegen, as Dutch minister for infrastructure and the environment, signed the ‘Tracébesluit’ for the ‘Nieuwe Sluis Terneuzen’ on Tuesday. That Tracébesluit, the Dutch equivalent of a Spatial Implementation Plan (RUP) in Flanders, is the final piece of the spatial procedure in the Netherlands. “As things stand now, the shovel can hit the ground in the third quarter of 2017,” Schultz let it be known on that occasion.