The port saw its box volumes increase by 16.5% to 8.1m teu last year. Within this, the Deurganck dock handled more than 1.5m teu in only its second full year of operation – and it is expected to handle between 2m teu and 2.3m teu this year, said port authority chief executive Eddy Bruyninckx to<\/p>\n
Port Strategy<\/i><\/p>\n
.”In our opinion, 2014-2015 would be the approximate time to offer additional capacity to the market on top of the Deurganck Dock,” he said.<\/p>\n
The land earmarked for development is the Saeftinghe area, north of the Deurganck Dock.<\/p>\n
“This would be a dedicated container handling facility, bigger than the existing Deurganck Dock,” said Mr Bruyninckx.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Antwerp also remains focused on conventional general and break-bulk cargo, with three major investments under way.<\/p>\n
“We have always been the number one conventional cargo port for northwest Europe and we still consider that to be very important business for the port – it creates added value and employment and it is labour intensive, so we are happy we will have at least three new projects linked to this area of business.”<\/p>\n
These are the all-weather steel handling terminal, the DP World Breakbulk joint venture project at Churchill dock, and the extensive renovation of the port’s fruit wharf, including the construction of new storage facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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