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News23 Feb 2017

Belgian seaports jointly handled a record 149.3 Mt of shortsea cargo in 2016, a 3% rise year-on-year...

News21 Dec 2016

Belgium’s supreme national body, the Council of State (Raad van State) has annulled most of the (Town and Country Planning) plan for the S...

News8 Nov 2016

The port of Antwerp has found new tenants for its locked Delwaidedok facility...

News20 Jul 2015

The port of Antwerp handled almost 104.53 Mt of freight in the first six months of this year. Container traffic grew 9.5% in TEU and 7.4% in...

News2 Jun 2015

Antwerp’s Port Alderman Marc van Peel has hinted that an Extraordinary Decree will be issued by the Flanders government to realise the por...

News9 Feb 2015

Flemish minister Ben Weyts (Mobility and Public Works) and Dutch minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and Environmental Affai...

News25 Aug 2014

DP World takes over all shares owned by Euroports in Trilogiport, the future trimodal container terminal in Liège container terminal in Bel...

News15 Apr 2014

Antwerp Port Authority to purchase the Opel site, the location of the former General Motors production plant in the Antwerp port area...

News26 Mar 2014

Breeding seagulls are delaying the construction of Verbrugge Group's new container/breakbulk terminal currently being built in Zeebrugge...

News2 Dec 2013

MSC has officially asked Antwerp Port Authority to expand its activities in Antwerp with a terminal in the Deurganck dock...

News7 Sep 2013

Netherlands-based Verbrugge Terminals will build a container/breakbulk terminal in the Belgian seaport of Zeebrugge...

News26 Nov 2012

The first concrete has been laid for the Port of Antwerp’s €340M Deurganckdok lock, touted as the largest in the world...

News10 Feb 2012

The Belgian pilots’ strike action is claimed to be costing Antwerp €1M per hour...

News19 Sep 2011

In a few weeks from now the ground will be broken in Antwerp for "the largest lock in the world"...

News1 Feb 2011

Port of Antwerp International (PAI), a subsidiary of Antwerp Port Authority, has signed an MoU with Essar Ports with the aim of collaboratin...