{"id":11583,"date":"2021-01-05T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2021\/01\/05\/greener-logistics-with-oosterweel-link\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:49:51","slug":"greener-logistics-with-oosterweel-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/greener-logistics-with-oosterweel-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener logistics with Oosterweel Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANTIS, as client for the Oosterweel Link, awarded the contract to Tijdelijke Maatschap Rechteroever Compleet (TM ROCO or Temporary Partnership Right Bank Complete) for \u20ac2,350m.<\/p>\n<p>TM ROCO is composed of the Belgian construction companies BAM Contractors, Besix, Cordeel, DEME, Franki Construct, Jan De Nul, Van Laere and Willemen Infra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting Scheldt Tunnel and R1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Right Bank sub-project, via the Oosterweel intersection, forms the link between the Scheldt tunnel and the R1, both in the Northern and Eastern directions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe R1 will also be constructed completely in a cutting and partly covered, so the Merksem viaduct will disappear and the urban landscape will undergo an extensive metamorphosis into a contemporary green and socially sustainable environment,\u201d said Jan De Nul.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this in as short a time as possible it is necessary to build a temporary new R1 to the East of the existing R1.<\/p>\n<p>The Right Bank sub-project is of a size and complexity never seen before in Flanders, however, ROCO believes that, from a technical point of view, it possesses the special techniques required for this large-scale project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A construction contract has been awarded for the Right Bank sub-project of the Oosterweel Link in Antwerp that will help ease port truck congestion and make European logistics greener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11585,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions\/11585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}