Ruhrort Ruhrort Ruhrort is a district within the German city of Duisburg situated north of the confluence of the Ruhr and the Rhine, in the western part of the Ruhr area. Ruhrort has the largest river harbour in the World, with quays extending nearly 40 kilometres along the river, and it is the principal inland shipping port in Germany. Ruhrort was founded in 1371 as a customs site and was granted town status in 1551. Due to its convenient position on the junction of two important waterways a shipping guild and a harbour had been created by 1665, mainly for trading
Ruhr Question prerequisite for the security of Europe and the world." An important consideration was that France and neighboring Western European countries had their economies supplied with coal and steel from the Ruhr and Saar regions for the purpose of postwar reconstruction. In the steel sector specifically, France intended, with the Monnet Plan to expand French steel production and impose a restriction on the capacity of German steel production. The Monnet Plan was considered a compromise from France to the other Allies, as France would have preferred to separate the industrial area from the Rhine and Ruhr region altogether. The Soviet Union,