Moerdijk

Moerdijk is a municipality and a city within the South of the Netherlands, within the province of North Brabant. The municipality of Moerdijk become based completely in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad, and Zevenbergen. At that issue the contemporary municipality modified into known as Zevenbergen. The name changed to Moerdijk in 1999. The village of Moerdijk is one of the smaller villages of the municipality.

Population as of 2002 is 1,205. Moerdijk is but a well-known call within the Netherlands, due to the huge Moerdijk business agency area, with a massive energy plant, and due to the famous Moerdijk bridges in the course of the Hollands Diep. This changed into the final bridge available for the retreat from the important Scheldt Estuary of the collapsing German defences close to Antwerp in World War II. Moerdijk made headlines on January five, 2011, because of a massive fire at Chemie-Pack inflicting a massive cloud of toxic smoke to blow over the encircling location, extra often than not to the north of Moerdijk.