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Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

The Levvel consortium finished reinforcing the 32-kilometre Afsluitdijk sea wall with tens of thousands of custom concrete blocks so it can withstand a one-in-10,000-year storm.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.