Port of Antwerp tinkles the ivories

“We do not sell these products ourselves; it is the demonstrators themselves that decide who they partner up with,” the port said in the statement to WorldCargo News.

Tuesday (13 February) saw disgruntled farmers use their tractors to blockade roads around Europe’s second largest container port, Antwerp, severely disrupting traffic flows into the port and affecting overall cargo-handling operations.

Combined throughput of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, which were formally merged in April 2022, was just 0.7% down on their throughputs in 2021, although container business suffered

Antwerp Euroterminal is increasing its automobile storage capacity by 25% with a 6-storey garage, providing 148,000 m2 of parking slots on a footprint of 24,000 m2

The total throughput of Port of Antwerp amounted to 58.3 Mt in Q1, a drop of 1.5% compared with the same period last year. Container traffic was down by more than 10%, however, reflecting the widespread congestion problem

Antwerp’s container capacity expansion plans have been boosted by an alliance struck between all parties involved in the long-running dispute around a new graven tidal dock