# Den Helder (NL DHR)

**UN/LOCODE:** NL DHR  
**Country:** Netherlands  
**Water Body:** North Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** River (Basins)  
**GPS:** 52.9667, 4.7833

Platform supplies, construction material, fuel, wood products and fish – not containers – define what moves across the quays at Den Helder. The port is the main base of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the country's largest offshore service hub, supplying North Sea oil and gas platforms (around 265,000 tonnes of platform stores a year across some 2,300 vessel calls) and acting as an operations-and-maintenance base for wind farms off the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark and Germany. Alongside offshore work it handles RoRo and breakbulk traffic and runs a fish auction. There is no scheduled container line service here. For forwarders, Den Helder is the place for offshore, project and supply cargo rather than boxes, which are better routed through Rotterdam or Amsterdam.

## Transit Times & Routes

- [Rotterdam → Shanghai](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-shanghai)
- [Rotterdam → Shenzhen](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-shenzhen)
- [Rotterdam → Guangzhou](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-guangzhou)
- [Rotterdam → Hong Kong](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-hong-kong)
- [Rotterdam → Tokyo](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-tokyo)
- [Rotterdam → Busan](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/rotterdam-busan)

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