Port of Antwerp

The second largest port of Europe, the second largest chemical port in the world, some nice projects, a beautiful city,....

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Final maritime cargo turnover and the barge freight volume in the port of Antwerp for 2004


Final figures for 2004 exceed forecast record volume

Barge freight volume in port of Antwerp up by 7 percent


The final figures for freight volume in the port of Antwerp confirm that 2004 was a record year. The total amount of maritime cargo handled amounted to 152,326,565 tonnes, nearly 10 million tonnes or 6.6% more than 2003, itself a record year. The amount of liquid bulk remained more or less the same, but other categories were up by anything from 3 to 12%.

Barge transport also experienced a successful year in the port of Antwerp, with the total amount carried by barge reaching 81,939,430 tonnes in 2004. This represents growth of 6.9% compared with 2003 when 76.6 million tonnes was carried. The main destination for barge freight remains the Netherlands, with 32.6 million tonnes (39.8%). It is followed by Belgium with 23 million tonnes (28.1%) and Germany with 20.3 million tonnes (24.7%).

The barges mainly carried oil and distillation products to and from Antwerp. In 2004 this category amounted to 25 million tonnes, an increase of 4.4%. The next most important category is container transport: the volume of containers carried by barge expanded by 12% to more than 19 million tonnes.

The total volume of containers handled in the port of Antwerp as a whole also rose strongly, up by 11.4% in 2004. Last year the container volume passed the 6 million TEU mark for the first time, finishing at 6,063,746 TEU. In terms of tonnage the container volume rose to more than 68 million tonnes, nearly 7 million more than in 2003 (up by 11.3%).

The volume of non-containerised general cargo rose above 21 million tonnes in 2004, an increase of more than 4%.

Antwerp has also managed to strengthen its position as a steel port, with a volume of nearly 10 million tonnes. Imports of steel products expanded by more than 35% as a direct result of high prices on the European steel market: companies are buying steel from overseas and importing it through the port of Antwerp. Steel exports for their part remain stable at a high level.

The volume of woodpulp and paper handled increased by 8% as a result of large imports from Brazil. Together with West Africa, the latter country also plays an important role in the growing imports of sawn lumber and plywood. Fruit imports expanded by 2.5 percent to more than 1.5 million tonnes.

The number of cars imported has remained stable, while car exports grew by 5.9%. The number of cars handled in the port of Antwerp last year was 895,098. The total amount of ro/ro freight increased by 12.2 percent to more than 3.8 million tonnes.

The volume of liquid bulk remained practically the same, at 35,280,379 tonnes. The decline in imports of crude oil has now been fully made up. The dip in this category at the beginning of this year was caused by the closure for maintenance of a refinery in the port area. Imports and exports of chemicals and oil derivatives also ended the year at a similar level to 2003.

The dry bulk volume rose by 5.4% to 27.3 million tonnes. In percentage terms the category of freight with the strongest growth is coal, with an increase of 26.3%. The rise in volume is due to the closure of various European mines, which strengthened Antwerp’s position as a coal import gateway for the German and French hinterland. The volume of ore for its part is slightly down, by 1.9%.

The decline in the amount of grain handled is due to a shift in market share towards other European ports. However, the very successful wheat harvests led to a surge in the volume of flour handled by Antwerp. The volume of cement also rose strongly, by nearly a third.

The number of seagoing ships calling at Antwerp fell slightly (by 2.2%) to 15,371. On the other hand the gross register tonnage rose further, to 237,408,112 million GRT.

Antwerp, 20 January 2005

Port expansion

Deurganck Dock

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Container freight continues to be the main engine of the Port of Antwerp's growth, and in 2003 it expanded by 15.7% to 61.4 million tonnes or 5.4 million TEU. During the past few years the volume of container traffic in the port has grown by around 10% annually, with the result that the existing container terminals on the right bank of the Scheldt have now reached their maximum capacity. In order to deal with this exponential growth, it was decided in 1998 to build a new, tidal container dock, the Deurganck dock, on the left bank of the Scheldt.

The construction of the Deurganck dock is being carried out in three phases, the first one being construction of a terminal with an area of 80 ha. This phase is located on the west side of the dock, with a quay length of 1,250 m. The second phase concerns construction of a 42 ha terminal on the east side (1,350 m quay length) and 19 ha on the west side of the dock (400 m quay length). The third phase involves construction of 53 ha of terminals on the west side and 62 ha on the east side of the tidal dock, each with a quay length of around 1,100 m.

The first terminal of the Deurganck dock will be operational in 2005. When it's fully operational more then 5,5 million TEU can be handled in the Deurganck dock.


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Antwerp in the world
Antwerp is located in Belgium, a small country in Western Europe, of which Brussels is the capital. Neighbouring countries are The Netherlands, France and Germany, while Great Britain is right across the Channel.
The climate in Antwerp is very moderate so the port is never out of operation because of bad weather conditions.
Antwerp's central location between the Americas, Asia and Africa assures short transit times to most destinations across the globe.
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Antwerp in Europe
Antwerp is located in Northwest Europe. It is the second largest city in Belgium, a small country surrounded by The Netherlands, Germany and France.
Antwerp lies about 343 km (213 miles) north of Paris, 208 km (129 miles) west of Cologne and only 45 km (28 miles) from Brussels, the capital of Belgium and of the European Union.

The industrial regions of Belgium and Northern France, Alsace, Lorraine, the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main areas, the Saar, Basle, Dutch Limburg and Northern Brabant, are the main centres of the port's continental hinterland.
More distant areas such as Northern Italy, Austria and the French Rhône-Alpes region become increasingly important with every passing year.

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Houston on the Scheldt
Antwerp is the largest petrochemical complex in Europe and worldwide second only to Houston, Texas. This is one of the findings of a survey, based on an analysis of 39 chemicals. Houston is the biggest producer for 24 of these 39 products. Antwerp is clearly in second position. On the other hand, Antwerp produces a much wider variety of chemical products, leaving even Houston behind it.
The explanation for these concentrations lies in the cluster effect. The possibility of continuous on-line exchanges of raw materials and commodity products means that the industry tends to choose locations close to existing chemical and petrochemical plants and refineries, creating a cluster. The bigger the cluster, the more attractive it is to new locations.
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Port Authority reaches agreement for Vopak concession on East side of Verrebroek dock
The Antwerp Port Authority has reached an agreement in principle with the Vopak company to grant the latter a concession to operate a site of around 174,000 m² on the East side of the Verrebroek dock. Vopak specialises in liquid bulk storage and logistics.

Vopak proposes to build a silo farm for direct transhipment and movement of liquid bulk, thus meeting the requirements set by the Port Authority. Vopak, which is already established in the port of Antwerp, plans in a first phase an investment of 70 million euro to build 74 silos on the new site, with a total storage capacity of 109,000 m³ for liquid bulk.

Deurganck Dock

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Nice lesson about Antwerpen. A very nice city with one of the greatest cinemas in Europe. I always enjoy visiting Antwerpen. The restaurants, the pubs, the market square, the schipperskwartier (Did I really say that? I meant the nice museums).

But... I hope they do no do too well with the port, considering I want Rotterdam to keep ruling Europe as seaport! :D

After 6 hours digging the Deurganck Dock has become a real tidal dock. Today at 17:30 the first water from the river the Scheldt has flown into the dock. The first part of the dock (1400 metres quay length) will be operational in july to receive containerships.
When totally finished the Deurganck Dock will have a depth of 17 metres and 5.3 kilometres of quay length. It will be able to handle (at optimal use) 7-8 million TEU. :banana:

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@MVL318: Very interesting material. I'm amazed that Antwerp is the second biggest petrochemical refineries in the world.

Dredging Scheldt to start in 2007 at the latest

After negotiations that lasted many years, dredging work in the Western Scheldt will start in 2007 at the latest. The navigation channel is to be deepened so that ships with a draft of 13,10m can reach the Port of Antwerp without difficulty. (maximum depth will be around 15metres)
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@MVL318

Finally its settled. I also hope that the competition between Rotterdam and Antwerp also ceases. The two ports have so much in common an are so close at each other that it would be smart for the two to cooperate instaed of having a one-sided view. :)

BTW Every time I go with the metro through Rotterdam city, I see the wharf of Nelcon in the Rijnhaven, and they are building huge container cranes for months on end. I thought these were made for shipment to the Deurganck-dock??

@MVL318
BTW Every time I go with the metro through Rotterdam city, I see the wharf of Nelcon in the Rijnhaven, and they are building huge container cranes for months on end. I thought these were made for shipment to the Deurganck-dock??

You're absolutely right.

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Steady growth in Antwerp freight volume

The volume of shipping cargo handled in the port of Antwerp during the first quarter of 2005 amounted to 39,239,923 tonnes. This represents an increase of 4.8% compared with the 37,452,879 tonnes handled during the same period in 2004. On the import side there was a rise of 7.3%, while exports were up by 1.7%.

@MVL

Also good quarterly results. Hopefully the predicted recovery of economy will boost overall freight volumes at the end of the year.

The port of Antwerp is pretty far inland? Don't ships have to go through the Netherlands to get to the port?

The port of Antwerp is pretty far inland? Don't ships have to go through the Netherlands to get to the port?
True, and that's why it lasted a long time before the port had the permission to start dredging works, The Netherlands had to give that permission. :bash:
Long ago ships had even to pay a toll to The Netherlands when sailing towards Antwerp.

'The Schelde Toll Case" is one of the oldest International Law disputes in the world, dating back to the Middle Ages when the Counts of Holland, Zeeland, Brabant and Flandres were quarreling over toll-rights and wages for ships passing through Zeeland waters and bound for Antwerp. At first the ships took the Easter-Scheldt delta and had to pay toll at the Zeeland town of Yrsekeroord. Later on, the Easter Scheldt delta was not deep enough anymore and the ships took the Wester-Scheldt (Honte) that separated the County of Zeeland from the Duchy of Flandres, thus Zeeland missed a lot of Toll income.

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Reactivating the 'IJzeren Rijn'-railroad

The 'IJzeren Rijn'-railroad (translated: 'Iron Rhein', as an iron river Rhein which 'flows' from Antwerp to Germany), which runs over Belgian, Dutch and German territory, was closed in 1991. It was the chortest connection between Belgium and Germany (164 km). The Belgian government has been trying to reactivate the railroad, because it is an economically important railroad between the port of Antwerp and the rest of Europe. The Dutch government was against reactivation: because of economical motives (the Netherlands was building an own railroad to Germany: "Betuwelijn"), but also because the railroad runs through a National Park between Roermond and the German border.
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Now (25/05) the Court of Arbitrage (in the Hague) has concluded that a regulation made in 1839 between Belgium and the Netherlands is still valid. After this judgement it will be possible to reactivate the railroad to Germany, probably it will take several years (maybe until 2015) to reactivate it, due to high costs.(500 000 000 euro wich is very much nowadays) :cheers:
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competitive position in Europe
Market share of the four main container ports, on basis
of figures for the nine ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre range (ports of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bremen,
Dunkirk, Hamburg, Ghent, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge, and estimates for Le Havre.)

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wind farm expansion

During the past year (2004) the first two wind turbines were built to the North of the Zandvliet lock. The Port Authority has signed a contract with Vleemo for a wind farm with at least 38 turbines. (an investment of 100 million euros.)
The first two wind turbines with a capacity of 2 MW each have been supplying ‘green electricity’ to the grid since September 2004. The planning permission process for the next eight wind turbines started during the course of the past year. The project will bring some 90 MW of generating capacity to the port area.
This wind power project in the port of Antwerp will generate enough electricity to supply the needs of some 74,000 homes. The wind power capacity in Flanders will be trippled.

cargo volume expands by more than 5 percent

During the first six months of this year the port of Antwerp handled 79,445,607 tonnes of cargo, an increase of 5.1 percent compared with the same period last year.

Container cargo expanded by 6.1 percent. 36.7 million tonnes of goods carried by container during the past six months. Expressed in TEU, the volume was 3.1 million TEU.
June was a record month, with a container volume of more than 550,000 TEU for the first time in any one month.

Deurganck dock has opened!!!

Wednesday 6 july the dock finally opened, the first ship has been handled! :cheers:

The Deurganck dock has a length of 2.6 km and a width of 450 m, with a total mooring length of 5 km, and is able to handle the latest generation of container ships with ease.
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At this moment only one side of the finished part is operational, this can been seen on the video's, follow the links on the bottom

Once all the terminals in the new dock are operational it will handle an annual volume of more than 7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units, the standard measure of container volume). In fact the opening of the Deurganck dock will more than double the container handling capacity of Antwerp: the volume handled last year was just over 6 million TEU or 68 million tonnes.

The entire West side of the Deurganck dock will form the Deurganck Terminal, operated by PSA Hesse-Noord Natie. The total quay length of the Deurganck Terminal is 2,750 m, with a total area of around 200 ha.
The Antwerp Gateway Terminal for its part covers the entire East side of the Deurganck dock. Once it is fully operational it will have a total quay length of 2,470 m and a total area of 126 ha.

Direct employment on the two terminals in the Deurganck dock will thus be around 3,000 people at full operation :cool:

On the following site you can find a video, first click on the link, then click on "Vandaag wordt het dok plechtig geopend" beneath the word "video"
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/default/archief/nieuws/050705deurganckdok_archief/index.html?video_2
here's another video, click on the word "plechtig geopend"
http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/default/archief/nieuws/050706Deurganckdok_archief/index.html?video_2
:)

40th anniversary celebrations of Bayer’s Antwerp company

Last year Bayer MaterialScience, which employs 18,000 people at 40 production sites around the globe, posted total sales of EUR 8.6 billion and an operating result of EUR 641 million. “Bayer Antwerpen alone accounts for some 10 percent of total sales.
In 2004 Bayer Antwerpen’s nearly 1,000 employees produced 1.1 million tons of raw materials and intermediates for plastics production and the company posted sales of about EUR 1 billion.

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BAYER will invest a further EUR 60 million in Antwerp in 2005 and 2006.

Cargo volume has grown by 5.7 per cent

In the first nine months of 2005 the port of Antwerp handled nearly 120 million tonnes of cargo,this is an increase of 5.7 per cent compared with the same period last year.

Also the container-volume grew

The container volume between January and September amounted to 55.8 million tonnes, up 8.6 per cent on the previous year. In terms of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) this represents an increase of 5.8 per cent, to 4.8 million TEU.

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Saefthinghedock

The Deurganck dock promises further growth in the port’s container activities for the following years. (probably until 2012)
Some people are already thinking to built the Saefthinghe-dock, a container dock even bigger then the Deurganckdock. The dock would be 550 metres width and the quay-length would be at least 3km at both sides.

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As you can see, the Saefthinghedock will run straight through a village called Doel, I can assure you that they are not very happy with this possible new dock.

Antwerp, the chemical port

Antwerp is the largest petrochemical complex in Europe and worldwide second only to Houston, Texas. This is one of the findings of a survey, based on an analysis of 39 chemicals. Houston is the biggest producer for 24 of these 39 products. Antwerp is clearly in second position. On the other hand, Antwerp produces a much wider variety of chemical products, leaving even Houston behind it. :cheers:
Antwerp has a central position in Western Europe, offering an excellent access to the major European industrial centres and to potential consumers. More then 130 million clients, representing 47 % of the total of the European purchasing power, are serviceable within a 500 km radius.

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No less than ten of the world’s top 20 chemical producers have selected Antwerp as one of their main locations. More than 300 chemicals are produced in Antwerp.


Belgium is just a little country, it represents only 2.7% of the EU-population and 3.2% of the EU GPD. However, the Belgian industry covers more then 8% of the European turnover in this sector and accounts for 17% of Europeans exports of chemical products. ;)

Considering the fact that 1/3 of Belgian chemical industry is located within the port, Antwerp plays an important role an the European market.

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Antwerp has a capacity of 1,960,000 tonnes of ethylene per year, this is 9.2% of the total European capacity. Also 11.8% of the total European propylene output is generated in Antwerp.

Western European chemical industry grew from 26 million tonnes per year in 1976 to 64 million tonnes per year in 2000, Antwerp’s market share increased from 14% to 17% in the same period.

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When you have liquids, you need some storage room.

In Antwerp, the tank storage providers offer a complete range of tanks (for the storage of bulk liquids and gasses) ranging from 10m³ to 50,000m³. There are stainless steel tanks, refrigerated or heated tanks, carbon steel vessels,…..

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The total tank storage capacity in Antwerp is more than 3.6 million m³, spread over 1,474 storage tanks. The capacity of the stainless steel tanks totals 164,147 m³ making Antwerp
market leader worldwide for this type of sophisticated tanks. :tongue4:

How it all started...

A little history about the port (and the city)

part 1: ...-1400

…-1000
People were already living in the bend of the River Scheldt as long ago as theGallo-Roman period (2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.). Around 970 Antwerp became a border town of the German empire. The border was the River Scheldt and the County of Flanders lay across the river.

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1300-1356
A first economic boom followed in the first half of the fourteenth century. Antwerp became the most important trading and financial centre in Western Europe; its reputation was based largely on its seaport and its wool market. But in 1356 the city was annexed to the County of Flanders and lost many of its privileges.

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1400
Some fifty years later the political and economic tide turned again and the run-up to the Golden Age began, during which Antwerp developed into a world class metropolis at every level: almost like a sixteenth- century Manhattan. For almost a hundred years Antwerp remained the commercial capital of northern Europe, until the religious and political events of the 1560s and 1570s intervened ......

to be continued..

How it all started...

A little history about the port (and the city)

part 2: 1400-1700

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The Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule toppled the commercial dominance of Antwerp and the southern provinces. Within just a few years of the Fall of Antwerp (1585), scores of merchants and mostly Calvinist craftsmen fled the south for the relative security of the Northern Netherlands.

1585-1648
IN 1585 Antwerp was conquered by Spain and became under the rule of the spanish king Philip II, the northern Netherlands closed of the Scheldt with some devastating results for Antwerp, the port of Antwerp faded away. Scores of merchants and mostly Calvinist craftsmen fled the south for the relative security of the Northern Netherlands, of the city's 100 000 inhabitants in 1570, by 1590 no more than about 40 000 remained. Yet the city continued to flourish culturally until the mid- seventeenth century with painters like Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens and Teniers.

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1648
After the peace in 1648, the Scheldt remained closed to traffic and the metropolis became a provincial town. The Netherlands biggest fear was that the port of Antwerp would be re-established to fast, and would become a direct concurent to Amsterdam (not Rotterdam).

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1700
Under Austrian rule (1715 - 1792) Joseph II tried to free the river by military force, but the plan backfired.

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to be continued...

How it all started...

A little history about the port (and the city)

part 3: 1795-1900

1795-1815
IT lasted until 1795, when the French occupants succeeded in opening the river again. Unfortunate there was a new problem: the ships encountered an English blockade. This was hardly surprising since Napoleon thought of the Port of Antwerp as 'a pistol aimed at the heart of England'.
As a result only two ships visited Antwerp in the year 1798, the following year there didn’t arrived a single ship, in 1800 twenty-eight ships arrived and in 1803 even thousand and three nevertheless the British blokade.
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Napoleon Bonaparte instructed to built a naval base and some new docks: “Le petit Bassin” (Bonapartedok) in 1811 and “Le grand bassin” (Willemdok) in 1813, also the Bonapartsluis was being built, the beginnings of todays port. (1792 - 1815)
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1815-1863
After the fall of Napoleon at Waterloo (1815), a short-lived reunification with the Northern Netherlands and an equally short period of prosperity followed, which ended with the Belgian Revolution (1830) and once again the closure of the River Scheldt. It was reopened, this time definitively, in 1863.
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1900
Apart from interruptions during the two world wars (in WW2 partly destroyed by the V-bombs, not only the port also the city), Antwerp experienced steady economic growth in the 20th Century. In 1993 Antwerp experienced a new cultural high point and international prestige, Antwerp was nominated Cultural Capital of Europe: European recognition for a wealth of historical and contemporary aspects.
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to be continued... (1990-present)

How it all started...

A little history about the port (and the city)

part 4: nowadays


2000
Nowadays Antwerp is the second largest largest chemical port in the world and also the second largest port in Europe. But Antwerp does also have some other features
· the Rubens' city par excellence (Rubens is a famous painter)
· the world diamond centre : More than 40% of industrial diamonds, 85% of rough diamonds and 50% of the world's cut diamonds are traded here, representing an annual turnover of 26 billion USD.
· a city of fashion designers and fashion trendsetters
· a world port and City-on-the-River
· the 1993 Cultural Capital of Europe
· a bustling Burgundian city, convivial and chockfull of atmosphere
· a real shoppers' paradise
· A film -, concert and theatre city
· a gallery of protected monuments and cityscapes
· a welcoming and multicultural metropolis
· a cruise port: only 300 metres from the city centre

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Some facts from today’s port:
Quay length------------------------- ------129,8 km
Surface port and and industrial area---------13,455 ha
Water surface without the Scheldt-----------2,103 ha
Industrial Surfaces--------------------------3,674 ha
Shoe-length--------------------------------127,8 km
Useful Shore-length-------------------------127,2 km
Length roads--------------------------------276,5 km
Length railroad------------------------------960 km
Covered stock capacity-------------- --------480 ha
Tank storage and distribution companies------2,950,017 m³
Tank storage petroleum refinery------ --------6,865,536 m³
Tank storage LPG----------------------------287,573 m³
Electric Quay cranes-------------------------207
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Some filled-in docks in the southern part of the city, nowadays the port is situated in the northern part, expansions as the Deurganckdok are only possible at the other side of the river.

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Docks in the southern part of the city

In my last post, I've talked about some docks that were filled in after the port moved to the north. Here is a picture that shows the docks shortly before they were filled in.

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to compare, nowadays it looks like this:
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Pictures of the deurganckdock

These images were made in July and August, not very recent but it gives an impression. Nowadays the first part of the dock is already fully operational.
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Hoi Hoi. pictures of the Deurganckdok. Thanks!

Deepening of the Scheldt

Today (the 21st of December 2005) the Flemish and Dutch governments signed four new treaties. One of the important agreements concerns the deepening of the Scheldt which links Antwerp to the North Sea.

Once the deepening work has been completed, ships with draughts of up to 13,1 metres (43ft) will be able to use the port of Antwerp without having to take account of ebb and flow tides. This is very important for the growing container ships heading towards Antwerp.

The other treaties deal with nature management, the traffic management and a better protection against floods.

The cost of the work is estimated at 250 million euros. Flanders will pay 80% of the bill with the Dutch government paying the remaining 20%.
A further 200 million euros will be spent on nature reserves in the immediate area of the estuary.

Work will commerce before the end of 2007.

A review of 2005

-In 2005 nearly 160 million tonnes of cargo were handled in the port of Antwerp, a growth of almost 5%. The past ten years the amount of cargo passing through the port of Antwerp has expanded by nearly 50%.

-In July the Deurganck container dock was officially opened. Due to this there was a growth in the container volume from 68 to more than 74 million tonnes, an increase of 9%. The port of Antwerp handled around 6.5 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) last year, an increase of 7% on the previous year. Since 2000 the container volume has risen by 68%. The influence of the Deurganckdock (the biggest tidal dock in the world!!!!) will be mostly seen in the following years.

-The overall volume of conventional/breakbulk cargo remained more or less stable.

-The ro/ro volume decreased to 3.6 million tonnes. (-5%)

-More than 26 million tonnes of dry bulk were loaded and unloaded in the port of Antwerp last year, a decrease of 3%. While the coal volume expanded by 30% in 2004, it contracted by 6% in 2005. On the other hand, imports of sand and gravel almost doubled as a result of construction of the Deurganck dock. Nearly 800,000 tonnes of gravel were used for terminal construction.

-The total volume of liquid bulk rose by nearly 5% to 37 million tonnes.

-Last year the number of seagoing ships was around 15,200 (down 1%). However, the ships were bigger, the total tonnage was up by 4%, just as in 2004.

Wow, thanks for the detailed documentation! Very interesting!

Next Monday demonstration in Strasbourg.

At Monday, work at the Belgian seaports will been set down due to a strike, some 1500 Belgian port workers will head towards Strasbourg.

It will be a major demonstration against “Port Package 2”.
- it will the position of protected port-work
- it will make self-dispatchment for crews on ships possible


^^@snot
thanks, I will try to keep this thread up to date, now and then I will give some additional information about the port and the city.

“Het eilandje” (translation: ~ small island)

The oldest part of the port is called “het eilandje”, and came into existence in the 16th century, it consists of mainly two docks: the Bonapartedock and the Willemdock. In the following years this will become one of the most city-improvements areas in Antwerp.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/MVL318/eilandjecopy.jpghttp://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/MVL318/eilandje2copy.jpg

Some of the projects:
- a red star line museum, about emigration to America through Antwerp.
- Mas- museum, about the history of Antwerp.
- Their will be built 5 tower blocks (± 50 metres high)
- Offices, lofts, a bib, …
- ……..

The following weeks I will try to give more information and pictures about these projects in one of the oldest places of the port.

"Het eilandje", the old port is evolving into a new part of the city

Kattendijkdock
At the Kattendijkdock, Project² will built 5 blocks with apartments and a maximum height of 50 metres. These buildings will have lots of glass in different hues. They will change Antwerp’s skyline forever. At the waterside there will be made some kind of promenade.
Price: 9.984.000 euro.
http://www.antwerpen.be/stadsvernieuwing/img_upload/popup/woontorensbig.jpg

MAS-museum (Museum At the Stream)
In this museum three Antwerp museums will be brought together, it will give a view at Antwerp's history. Some moths ago they demolished an old building that stood at the same place. Visitors will go through 7 rooms due to huge windows they will always have a view at Antwerp. At the top of the museum people will have a beautiful sight at the city.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/MVL318/naamloos.jpg
http://www.antwerpen.be/stadsvernieuwing/img_upload/popup/MAS450.jpg

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Final figures for 2005 confirm record cargo volume of 160 million tonnes
The port of Antwerp handled 160,054,365 tonnes of cargo in 2005, an increase of 5.1% on the previous year.

Next: history of the red star line in Antwerp and the future of the storehouses.

Antwerp prepared to help Matadi

Mon 06/02/06 - The Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht (Flemish liberal) visited the port of Matadi. He called for the Port of Antwerp to be put in charge of modernising the Congolese port.

The Port of Antwerp Authority has already said that it prepared to help manage the Congolese port on a temporary basis.
The Port of Antwerp has been active in Matadi for the past three years and has ambitious modernisation plans for the container terminal at the port.

"No time to lose"

The Foreign Minister and the Port of Antwerp Authority want to reach an agreement as soon as possible, not least because it is rumoured that the French and the Chinese are also interested in investing in the Congolese port.

Years of decline

The Port of Matadi has been in decline for decades. In its heyday, twenty years ago the port handled 3 million tonnes per annum.
2005 saw the first increase in tonnage for a generation, with the port handling 1.7 million tonnes. Low productivity, poor maintenance and an archaic infrastructure, mean that Matadi has a very poor reputation.

http://www.congo-pages.org/matadi/PORT.jpg

source (www.vrtnieuws.net)

still following: history of the red star line in Antwerp and the future of the storehouses.

nice port

Port of Antwerp on the lookout for Dutch labourers

The Antwerp Harbour Authority is planning to recruit workers from the Netherlands.
The growing number of vacancies in the busy port is not generating enough Belgian interest.

An increasing need for tug boat crew members and technical staff is expected to become crucial over the next two years.
http://www.antwerpgateway.be/upload/gallery/full/106_1145516296.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/250px-

I will try to get this thread back up to date...

In the first quarter of this year, container volume grew by nearly 10%!!

-The volume of container cargo: +9.1% (19,250,711 tonnes)
-Twenty-foot equivalent units: +9.3% (1,665,922 TEU)
-The volume of conventional/breakbulk: -3.8% (4,412,730 tonnes)
-The steel volume: -7.5%
-The volume of paper: -17%
-The volume of cargo: +1.8%
-The ro/ro volume: -3%
-Cars loaded or unloaded: +36.2%
-The volume of liquid bulk: -10.2%
-The dry bulk volume: +4.5%

Number of ships: +0.5% (3,779 ships)
Total tonnage: +5.8% (62.8 million GRT due to larger ships)

Hi, here are some photos of the port of Antwerp. I shall add more photos when I find them.

http://www.portofantwerp.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/Industrie_600317.jpg

http://www.portofantwerp.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/P04-7_600478.jpg

http://www.portofantwerp.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/P08-20_341500.jpg

http://www.portofantwerp.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/luchtfoto_600451.jpg

http://www.flandersonline.org/data/photos/big/810-haven.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/B4b_343500.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/Magazijnen_600317.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/brabo_600317.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/210900-704.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/100399-502.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/200499-710.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/161199-734.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/Quai-95-Anvers.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/070400-509.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/LBC-Antwerpen.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/040400-550.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/190398-701.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/TERMINALbig/100400-748.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/gantry_600317.jpg

http://www.haven.antwerpen.be/images/02_PORTHANDBOOK/PHfotosBIG/cruise_600317.jpg

^^
The pictures are very nice. Problem is that @MVL already created a very nice thread about the Port of Antwerp. It would've been better if you had posted these pics in that thread instead of creating another. :)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to create a double thread about this subject but I hadn't seen the other thread. I still can't find it as a matter of fact. Perhaps you could show it?

@JOBA

You're right, they must have kicked off MVL's thread with the last maintenance. My fault!

From now on this is the POA-thread. :)

Here are some pics of our school trip of 3 october. I study Logistics Management, that's why we visit it quite often.
The weather wasn't that good to shoot pictures, and some are taken from inside the boat (reflection, dirty windows).

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6002/kaart6500528grootou0.jpg


We departed at the Lillobrug (Lillo Bridge), between Channel Dock B1 and Channel Dock B2, on our boat Limburgia.

1. Lillobrug.
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2. Navigating into the Delwaide Dock, we saw one of the so many MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) ships.
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3. Delwaide Dock.
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4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10. Berendrechtsluis (sluis = lock) en Zandvlietsluis, the two largest locks in the world.
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/7122/svan03102006rondvaarthaven010qh2.jpg

11. We navigated along the Channel Dock to the south. In the background you can see the cooling towers of the nuclear power station at Doel (on the other side of the river Scheldt. Those are the two tallest structures of the province of East-Flanders (169m).
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12.
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13.
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14. Degussa.
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18. Bayer.
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22. Total Fina, a skyline on its own. The tallest, red-white masts are the tallest structures in the province of Antwerp, all three 204m tall.
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23.
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26. Our largest crane Brabo being controlled.
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30. Churchilldok and its surroundings.
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35. Petroleum Port.
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43. On the left side General Motors.
http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/9816/svan03102006rondvaarthaven043jp3.jpg

44. Church tower of the former polder village Wilmarsdonk.
http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/7374/svan03102006rondvaarthaven044vd0.jpg

45. Just discharging.
http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/6828/svan03102006rondvaarthaven045uf3.jpg

46.
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51.
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54.
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55. Steel rolls, you wouldn't like them falling on you.
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56.
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57.
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58.
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And then we were back at the Lillobrug :)

Nice port!

...and big.

Ahhh, thank you so much for these pics. It has been a long time since there has been a picture update of the Antwerp Port. :)

Previous port of antwerp (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=172491) thread with more info

The Port of Antwerp is a port accessible to capesize ships in the heart of Europe. Antwerp stands at the upper end of the tidal estuary of the Scheldt. The estuary is navigable by ships of more than 100,000 Gross Tons as far as 80 km inland. The inland location means that the port of Antwerp enjoys a more central location in Europe than the majority of North Sea ports.

Antwerp's docks are connected to the hinterland by rail, waterway and road. As a result the port of Antwerp has become one of Europe's largest sea ports, ranking third behind Rotterdam and Hamburg for container throughput in 2007.[1] Its international rankings vary from 11th to 17th (AAPA). In 2007 the Port of Antwerp handled 182,900,000 MT of trade[2] and offered liner services to 800 different maritime destinations

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Berendrecht & Zandvlietsluis (biggest in the world)
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Nice airpictures A*99!

(the pic's are from Da_Vinci)

yeah the Port of Antwerp is so enormous....

It's massive.. Rotterdam is bigger though

It's massive.. Rotterdam is bigger though

^^yeah Rotterdam is so big!!! but it's another type of port. Antwerp is mostly container & Petrochemical

You stole the "****" from the Rotterdam thread ;)

yeah, but I put less **** (only 5, 5 star port ;) )because the port of Rotterdam is bigger...

Thanks antigoon99 for making this international thread. Can you number the pictures please? So the belgian members can post extra information about the port of Antwerp.

On picture number 9 you see the most recently build containerterminals, the dock(Deurganckdok) is still partly under construction.

And on picture 13 you see the Beredrecht lock. With a length of 500 m between the lock gates and a width of 68 m, the Berendrecht lock is the largest lock in the world. On the picture it seems not that large but I took the photo at 1600m in a gliderplane.:)

SVP

:cheers:

Work on Liefkenshoek rail link starts on 12 November

Construction of the Liefkenshoek rail link is due to start on Wednesday 12 November. The new link will consist of a 16,2 km rail line (6,2 km of it underground) between the Waasland port area on the left bank of the Scheldt and Antwerp North marshalling yard. The first trains will be able to travel over the route some time in mid-2014. The news was announced by Infrabel on Wednesday in the presence of among others Flemish minister-president Kris Peeters and minister of public works Inge Vervotte.

Infrabel has contracted out the financing and construction of the rail link to Locorail NV, a private consortium of the construction companies CFE, VINCI Concessions and BAM PPP Investments. The total cost for construction of the Liefkenshoek rail tunnel is estimated at 765 million euros. Infrabel as the track operator will be able to use the line over a period of 38 years for an annual fee of 50 million euros, after which it will become the full owner.

In order to cross from one bank of the Scheldt to the other, rail traffic at the moment has to go via the Kennedy tunnel and Berchem-Schijnpoort. The Liefkenshoek rail tunnel will make it possible to avoid these bottlenecks, and will also close the “rail ring” round Antwerp. The 6,2 km tunnel under the Waasland canal, the Scheldt and the Canal dock will provide better rail access to both the left and the right banks of the Scheldt.

The volume of freight being carried around within the port of Antwerp is forecast to grow strongly between 2010 and 2020. It is also expected that the Deurganck dock will reach its full capacity of 7 million tonnes within a few years. The Liefkenshoek rail tunnel will make it possible to keep pace with the growth of the port on the left bank, and will also make an essential contribution towards a higher proportion of rail transport in the modal split. It is expected that by 2020 between 15 and 20% of container transport to and from the port will be by rail.

source: Port of Antwerp

ANTWERP PORT AUTHORITY

From January to September (inclusive) this year the port of Antwerp handled more than 144 million tonnes (144,377,630) of freight. This represents growth of 7.2% compared with the first nine months of 2007.

The freight volume during the first three quarters was 10 million tonnes higher than for the same period last year, both on the import side (up 7.9%) and on the export side (up 6.3%). During the past 12 months the port handled a volume of 192,539,000 tonnes.
Container freight, expressed in tonnes, expanded during the first nine months by 11% to 78,233,613 tonnes. This corresponds to 6,657,688 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units), an increase of 9%. The Deurganck dock for its part continued to expand its activities. In the first nine months it handled 1,445,732 TEU, an increase of 30% compared with the same period last year.
Conventional/breakbulk on the other hand experienced a falling trend. From January to September 15.3% less was loaded and unloaded, although the total still came to nearly 13 million tonnes. There were large decreases in steel (down 15.8%), particularly on the import side. Due to the large weight of iron and steel in the overall figures for conventional/breakbulk this had a significant impact on the figures. Imports of paper were down too, leading to a drop of 11.5%. The volume of fruit handled was slightly up, by 3.6%.

During the first nine months of the year 723,499 cars were loaded or unloaded, with the volume of cars handled (ro/ro) increasing by 2.5%.

The volume of bulk cargo rose this year by 9% to 50,071,814 tonnes. The increase is mainly attributable to dry bulk, with volume up by 17.7%. The growth was particularly marked on the import side, with among others the volume of ore up by 48.3% and coal by 17.9%. The increase in ore and coal volumes has to do with among others the restarting of the Arcelor Mittal blast furnace in Liège, producers buying and storing more due to rising prices, and a number of relatively weak months in 2007.
The amount of liquid bulk was also up, by 3.6%. Crude oil experienced a 9.1% increase in volume.

Chemicals continued their growth (up 9.7%), reinforcing the port of Antwerp’s position as a distribution hub for chemical products.

The number of seagoing ships calling at the port rose by 0.8% to 12,513. The gross register tonnage for its part was up by 2.8%, to 220,478,716 GRT.

source: Port of Antwerp

Keen interest in market consultation for Saeftinghe Development Area

The market consultation for Saeftinghe Development Area can count on widespread international interest, at least if reactions during a visit by Antwerp Port Authority managing director Eddy Bruyninckx to the Indian port city of Chennai are anything to go by. He spoke there to representatives of Indian industry on the occasion of the Belgian state visit to India from 2 to 12 November, headed by king Albert II and queen Paola.

Eddy Bruyninckx joined the royal company on Monday 10 November in the port city on India’s East coast to give details of developments in the port of Antwerp. In particular, the news that a market consultation is being held to determine how to allocate sites efficiently in the Saeftinghe Development Area aroused a great deal of interest. He gave details of conditions for submitting proposals, and outlined the further procedure for the project. He also emphasised that there is space both for operation of a tidal container dock and for carrying out logistical and industrial activities.

Shipping trade between India and Antwerp has been growing strongly in the past few years. The volume of Indian exports and imports in Antwerp more than doubled between 2003 and 2007. Last year the total weight of freight carried to and from India rose to more than 4 million tonnes, with large volumes of iron, steel and granite in particular. The total volume of containers handled last year rose to over 180,000 TEU.

Antwerp Port Authority has long been aware of the growth prospects for India. In fact, it has a full-time representative there. In 2006 Eddy Bruyninckx signed a collaboration agreement with Mr. Sandeep Metha, CEO of Mundra port authority. One very recent result of this agreement is the visit by Antwerp Port Authority advisor Jean Verspreeuwen to Mundra. From 2 to 7 November he visited this port on the West coast of India to draw up a report on bulk operations. The aim is to give in-depth recommendations on making these operations more efficient, based on consultations with various experts in Antwerp. For example, executives from Mundra Port Authority and the Adani Group which manages the port will be able to follow courses at Antwerp/Flanders Port Training Center.

Plans for the future


Second lock on the left bank
Minister of Public Works Kris Peeters has given the go-ahead for a number of preparatory studies to begin construction of a second access to the Waasland port. The final location of the second access will not be known until a social costs/benefits study and a special environmental impact assessment have been carried out. The second lock should be operational by 2013.

Expansion of the container handling capacity
The volume of container freight is expanding at an annual rate of around 8%. If this growth continues in the coming years, the Deurganck dock will be operating at maximum capacity by 2012-2013. The strategic planning process looks at how the rapid growth in demand for container capacity can be met in the near future, and which additional container handling capacity can be made available.

Liefkenshoek rail tunnel

The planning process for the Liefkenshoek rail tunnel, the proposed second rail link between the left and right banks, has entered its final phase. In December 2006 the Flemish Government took a definitive decision on the route; it had already given its approval for a system of prefinancing, so that the work can start earlier than planned. According to the schedule work will start in 92009, so that the tunnel can enter service at the end of 2013.


Oosterweel link

The Master Plan includes construction of an additional road that will form a connection between the left and right banks of the Scheldt, between city and port. This road, the Oosterweel link, will close the last gap in the Antwerp ringroad.

Deepening of Scheldt one step closer

With the approval of the four Scheldt Treaties by the Dutch parliament at the beginning of July, the ratification process has now been completed on the Dutch side. This means that the actual deepening of the River Scheldt has come a step closer.

The four Scheldt Treaties lay the basis for further sustainable development of the port of Antwerp. In accordance with these treaties, Flanders and the Netherlands have set a date to officially notify each other of the completion of their internal ratification process. This mutual notification will take place on 28 August 2008 by means of an exchange of diplomatic notes in Brussels between Flemish minister-president Kris Peeters and the Dutch ambassador, H.E. Hannie Pollmann-Zaal.

This means that the Scheldt Treaties can enter into force and that the deepening can now start on Dutch territory as well. Dredging work on the Flemish side of the border started on 20 December 2007.

Deepening of the navigation channel is one of the action points of the four treaties. After Flanders, the Netherlands will now start the necessary work to ensure tide-independent navigation for ships with a draught of up to 13.10 metres (43'). Under the terms of the treaty this degree of navigability must be achieved by 2009, enabling larger ships to reach Antwerp whatever the state of the tide. Once the deepening work has been completed, seven out of ten ships that currently face problems will be able to reach the port of Antwerp without tide constraints.

In the meantime, Antwerp Port Authority and Alfaport Antwerp continue to press for a comprehensive approach to the Scheldt estuary, aimed at balanced, sustainable development. This must include not only shipping access (deepening the navigation channel linking the port of Antwerp to the sea) but also flood protection (implementing the updated Sigma plan in Flanders) and nature conservation.

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http://www.portofantwerp.be/media/movie_poa.html

a great movie about the port of Antwerp (english)!!!

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ANTWERP PORT AUTHORITY

PRESS RELEASE

Seventh record year in a row
Port of Antwerp passes the 190 million tonne mark


By the end of this year the port of Antwerp will have handled 190 million tonnes of freight. This represents growth of 4% compared with the already outstanding year of 2007 and is the seventh record year in a row. The figures for the first nine months were excellent, and while the last quarter clearly showed the effects of the downturn in the world economy, the port of Antwerp continued to do relatively well. As a result, Antwerp was able to gain market share within the top 3 in the Hamburg - Le Havre range (the other two being Rotterdam and Hamburg). Fewer ships called at Antwerp in 2008, but the gross register tonnage increased nevertheless.


The figures show that last year more than one hundred million tonnes of containerised freight was handled for the first time. The container volume rose by 7.7% to nearly 102 million tonnes. In terms of TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) the container volume is up by 6.0% to more than 8.6 million TEU. The ro/ro volume remained almost the same as in 2007, with 4.4 million tonnes of wheeled freight. During the past year 339,000 cars were imported and 612,000 exported, with the total volume being up by just over 1%. Conventional/breakbulk freight was down by 15% to nearly 17 million tonnes, after an exceptional year in 2007 when there was a very high volume of steel from Asia. In 2008, however, the amount of steel was down by 14.1% to 10.5 million tonnes. The volume of forest products is also down, falling by 18% to 2,700,000 tonnes, mainly as a result of trade being lost to other ports. The fruit volume on the other hand was up slightly, rising 1% to 1.3 million tonnes and so once more consolidating Antwerp’s position as the largest fruit port in Europe.


The volume of bulk freight was up by 5.1% to 67.4 million tonnes, largely as a result of the sharp increase in dry bulk. The boost was due to among other things trading activities and the opening of a new terminal in the 6th Haven dock. The volume of liquid bulk was stationary at 39.5 million tonnes. Chemicals once more showed good growth with an increase of 4%, thus further consolidating Antwerp’s position as a distribution hub for chemical products.

The number of hours worked by dockers rose sharply during the first nine months, by 4.9%. However, the growth levelled out in October and during the last two months there was a pronounced downturn.

Antwerp Port Authority expects that the general trend over the past three months will continue during the first half of 2009. The second quarter of 2008 will be difficult to equal in any case, since in that period extra freight was diverted to Antwerp as a result of a dock strike in Le Havre.


Antwerp, 30 December 2008

The brand new headquarter of the port of Antwerp (Belgium) will be designed by London architects Zaha Hadid. The building must be ready in 2013 and will be a new landmark for Antwerp, wich is the second largest port in Europe.

Some impressions:

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i find it hideous to be honest, like most of hadid's work...

i think it's great, especially in that neighborhood

threads merged on request.

^^ thanks


The Port of Antwerp reached 178million tonnes of freight last year:


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Port of Antwerp handles 178 million tonnes of freight in 2010
Record figures for containers and liquid bulk

The port of Antwerp handled 178,168,003 tonnes of freight last year, up 12.9% from the recession year of 2009. These figures confirm the provisional estimates made at the end of 2010. Only liquid bulk performed slightly less well than expected, but it still set a new record. Dry bulk for its part achieved greater growth than was provisionally assumed at the end of last year. In the meantime, the port has begun the new year with a successful test voyage by the MSC Danit. The vessel sailed out of the port on Tuesday evening with a historically significant draught of 14.5 m: never before has such a draught been attained sailing down-river. The fact that this is now possible is due to the recently completed third round of deepening work in the Scheldt estuary, together with the resulting new upstream and downstream navigation regulations. Further improvements to the maximum permitted draughts are expected in the next few weeks.

The container volume was up by 17.5% to 102,539,658 tonnes. In terms of TEU it expanded by 15.9% to 8,468,475 TEU. Ro/ro for its part also increased, by 16.3%, reaching 3,724,781 million tonnes. Conventional/breakbulk expanded by 6.5% to 11,128,334 million tonnes, but remains far below the level in 2008 (down 34.3%). In comparison with 2008 conventional/breakbulk is the sector that encountered the greatest difficulty in recovering from the recession. Steel products, wood cellulose and paper all suffered heavy blows in 2009 and struggled to get up again.

The volume of bulk freight is trending up once more, increasing by 6.8% compared with the previous year. Both liquid bulk (up 3.7%) and dry bulk (up 13.8%) recorded growth figures. Liquid bulk even performed better than in 2008, having expanded by 4.3% since then. Crude oil (up 19.1%) and chemicals (up 19%) are the absolute top performers in this segment. While dry bulk did better than in 2009 (up 13.8%), it still lags well behind its 2008 level (down 27.7%). The volume of coal handled continued to decline (down 16.3%). The volumes of ore (up 23.8%), grain (up 20.1%), fertilisers (up 56.5%) and sand and gravel (up 21%) are all increasing once more.

The number of seagoing ships calling at Antwerp has risen once more: in 2010 there were 14,783 calls, an increase of 6.2%. The gross tonnage also rose, by 9.1%, to 290,386,871 GT.

Antwerp, 21 January 2011

Works on the new sealock on the left bank can start this year.

simulation of the lock:

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It will have the same dimensions as the Berendrechtlock (still the largest lock in the world) but will be deeper. 500m in length, 68meters width and 17,8m deep

location of the lock in the port of Antwerp:
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You'll enter the lock trouhg the Deurganckdock (old picture, nowadays the whole dock is all containerterminal):
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^^Thanks meureuse:

This is a post I made last year in the European ports tread.


Here you go:

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some promovideos on youtube:

een aantal promofilmpjes over de Haven van Antwerpen

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MSC Emanuela scores record keeldepth in Antwerp without difficulty

The 366 metre-long container carrier MSC Emanuela reached the port of Antwerp without difficulty on 3 April with a record draught of 15 metres, a depth never before attained by any container ship on the Scheldt. This has been made possible by the third round of dredging in the Western Scheld (the lower Scheldt estuary) that was completed last year, permitting tide-independent navigation with draughts of up to 13.10 metres. With due allowance for the tide, vessels with even greater draught can sail up the Scheldt.

The arrival of the Emanuela served as an official test voyage for which permission had been granted by the Permanent Commission for Supervision of Scheldt Navigation. The flawless upstream trip by the MSC Emanuela is of great importance for allowing the Scheldt navigation conditions to be made more flexible. The successful test trip was welcomed by Marc Van Peel,
alderman for the port and chairman of Antwerp Port Authority: “On average two ultra-large container ships call at the port of Antwerp each week. That they can now travel with even deeper draught is a great boost for container shipping in Antwerp,” he declared.

After passing through the Berendrecht lock on Sunday evening the MSC Emanuela headed for the MSC Home Terminal in the Delwaide dock, where she will remain until 1400 hours on Monday.

The successful test trip by the MSC Emanuela also forms part of preparations for the new MSC sailing schedule, with container carriers calling directly at Antwerp from the Far East as of the end of April. This too will be a “first” for the port.

Antwerp, 3 April 2011

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Port of Antwerp gets off to an excellent start in first quarter

The port of Antwerp handled 47,374,451 tonnes of freight in the first three months of this year, up 12.7% on the same period in 2010. The total freight volume, the container volume and the volume of liquid bulk are all higher than the level reached at the same point in the record year of 2008.

The port of Antwerp has clearly shaken off the recession, even if the volumes of conventional/breakbulk and dry bulk continue to lag. “Both these sectors suffered heavily during the recession, but are slowly recovering. Moreover, the recovery is not simply related to the state of the economy,” declared Port Authority CEO Eddy Bruyninckx.

In terms of tonnage, the Antwerp container volume in the first quarter of this year grew by 7.8% to 26,240,633 tonnes. In the same period last year the volume was 24,333,081 tonnes. In terms of standard containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) the volume was 2,172,323 TEU. That’s 7.9% more than in 2010, when 2,013,236 TEU was handled. The Antwerp container handlers have never before had such a good first quarter.

In the conventional/breakbulk field 2,926,057 tonnes of freight was handled, an increase of 11.7% compared with 2010. The best performer in this segment was steel, which rose in volume by 41.8% to 1,947,487 tonnes. For the rest there were mixed results for fruit (up 3.7% to 338,552 tonnes), paper and cellulose (down 47.3% to 191,901 tonnes), granite (up 15.6% to
82,526 tonnes) and non-ferrous metals (down 9.6% to 70,841 tonnes). The ro/ro volume for its part is up by 24.1% to 1,001,865 tonnes, with the number of cars handled growing by 27.9% to 252,532.

The volume of liquid and dry bulk rose overall by 20.4%, to 17,205,896 tonnes. Liquid bulk was up by 23.8% to 11,952,276 tonnes, bringing it above the record level of 2008. The increase of 34.6% in the volume of oil derivatives, to 7,818,893 tonnes, is particularl striking. The volume of chemicals rose too, from 16.9% to 2,759,198 tonnes. On the other
hand crude oil declined by 7.2% to 1,255,516 tonnes. Dry bulk for its part experienced a rise of 13.3% to 5,253,620 tonnes. The rising trend was particularly marked for fertilisers (up 9.7% to 1,338,050 tonnes), coal (up 2.4% to 1,288,478 tonnes) and ore (up 63.5% to 946,923
tonnes).

During the first quarter of 2011, a total of 3,741 seagoing ships called at Antwerp, 6.9% more than in the same period last year. The gross tonnage was up by 15.5%, to 77.2 million.

Antwerp, 15 April 2011

The world's largest
the port of Antwerp
designing the maxi-closed

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Antwerp - The port of Antwerp, Europe's second largest after Rotterdam, has initiated the construction of closed world's largest, ahead of Deurganckdoc area on the left bank of the river Scheldt, to accommodate vessels up to this when they could not get into the infrastructure.

The weir will provide an operational area with a depth of 17.8 meters and 68 meters off a stretch of water. The facility will open in 2016. The share of steel used to build the dam will be three times the time used for the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

The work will cost 340 million euros, half of which financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the remaining funds will be provided by the Region of Flanders and by the Port. The development of this structure will improve the productivity of the entire area of the airport on the left of the Belgian Scheldt.

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Port of Antwerp handles 186 million tonnes of freight in 2011
Record year for containers and liquid bulk
Antwerp still the breakbulk port

Antwerp, 29 December 2011 – The port of Antwerp expects to have handled 186.4 million tonnes of freight this year. This represents an increase of 4.6% compared with 2010, when the volume was 178.2 million tonnes. Furthermore, all-time records have been set this year for containers and liquid bulk, with expected volumes of 104,779,157 and 46,095,431 tonnes respectively.

Antwerp’s container volume was up by 2.2% in 2011, to 104,779,157 tonnes. Expressed in standard containers (twenty-foot equivalent units) the figure was correspondingly higher, up 2% to 8,638,311 TEU. This demonstrates that in comparison with other ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre range relatively few empty containers are respositioned in Antwerp.

The ro-ro volume was similarly up, by 13.3% to 4,219,597 tonnes. The number of cars handled in 2011 amounts to 1,056,122, an increase of 14.7%.
Conventional/breakbulk freight also experienced growth: during the past year 12,772,956 tonnes of freight in this category was loaded and unloaded, 14.8% more than the previous year. These growth figures show that the difficult situation in which this segment found itself has partially improved, although a great deal of work remains to be done. The Port Authority is therefore satisfied with the passage in the government agreement that states “the system of dock labour will be modified in consultation with the parties involved (the employers, union organisations, industrial relations mediators and port authorities) in order to modernise it.”
“This initiative should reinforce the competitive position of Antwerp, which is still the largest breakbulk port in Europe,” says Port Authority CEO Eddy Bruyninckx.

The volume of bulk freight for its part was up 6.3% to 64,585,083 tonnes, thanks mainly to the large increase in liquid bulk which expanded by 12.4% to 46,095,431 tonnes. “These strong growth figures demonstrate the dynamism of the tank storage companies. They also show that the reconversion of the former breakbulk areas in our port into tank storage areas over the past few decades has been beneficial,” says Eddy Bruyninckx. The associated handling activity generates the highest added value after breakbulk.

Dry bulk on the other hand was down by 6.5% to 18,489,652 tonnes, due largely to lower imports of ore and fertilisers.

The number of seagoing ships calling at the port also rose this year: in 2011 there were 15,230 calls, an increase of exactly 3%. The gross tonnage was up by 8.3%, to 314,437,464 million GT.
The number of jobs done by the dockworkers during the first 11 months of the year amounted to 1,448,411. This represents an increase of 4% compared with the same period last year.

Pilots from Panama learn how to handle ultra large container vessels in Antwerp:

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Are this LNG tanks ?
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