{"id":37719,"date":"2026-08-13T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/37719\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:48:13","slug":"explosion-in-rotterdam-netherlands-kills-one-injures-several","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/37719\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion in Rotterdam, Netherlands kills one, injures several"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blast at a storage facility for petroleum products at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-903603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a>&#8216; Rotterdam Port killed one person and wounded several others on Thursday, officials said, adding that the cause was unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A spokesperson for major energy commodities trading company Gunvor said an &#8220;incident&#8221; occurred during maintenance work on a storage tank. A police spokesperson said that there was no immediate sign of sabotage and that all possible scenarios were under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Rotterdam is Europe&#8217;s largest port and comprises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-905234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oil refineries<\/a>, liquefied natural gas terminals and multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-900158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">petrochemical facilities<\/a>. Shell, Exxon Mobil, BP, and Gunvor Energy are among the energy majors operating at the port.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The explosion occurred at around 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Gunvor said it was cooperating with local authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shell said its operations at the port were unaffected by the blast.<\/p>\n<p>A Rotterdam Port spokesperson said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-904067\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LNG<\/a> terminals were not affected.<\/p>\n<p>ExxonMobil shut all units at its 191,000 barrels\/day Rotterdam refinery due to a power outage, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in an alert to clients seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">ExxonMobil did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Rotterdam Port said there was no connection between the blast and the power outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blast at a storage facility for petroleum products at the Netherlands&#8216; Rotterdam Port killed one person and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[770,6,4736,3730],"class_list":["post-37719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-explosion","tag-netherlands","tag-oil","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}