Left bank moves on

The relative good behaviour will be related to the EUR 1,000 per person fine that Antwerp-Bruges and North Sea Port have secured before court earlier this week.

Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges, which are Europe’s two largest container ports, have both suffered declines in their throughputs for the first nine months of 2023. Overall traffic at both ports was also down on the same period of 2022.

The Netherlands and Colombia are preparing a treaty to intensify bilateral cooperation in the fight against drugs trafficking.

Partnership between the port and technology providers leverages IoT technology and the LoRa network to monitor cargo inside reefer containers independently of the reefer machinery.

How does the port balance the competing interests of PSA-MSC and DP World, and could there yet be a hitch in the new graving dock plans?

TVH, the Belgium-based global ‘one-stop-shop’ for materials handling equipment parts, has restructured into two separate companies. The Mateco machinery division – renting all kinds of work platforms, FLTs, and so on – is now 100% owned by the Vanhalst family.