{"id":8633,"date":"2012-10-16T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/10\/16\/antwerp-looks-to-consolidate-us-market-share\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:44:13","slug":"antwerp-looks-to-consolidate-us-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/antwerp-looks-to-consolidate-us-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp looks to consolidate US market share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annik Dirkx, from the Port of Antwerp, said to <i>Port Strategy<\/i>: \u201cOur prior goal is to strengthen our existing relationships and consolidate our market share. We have nine direct lines to the US and agreements with several US ports and cities including MoUs, letters of intent and friendship treaties. North America is our most important foreland partner with 20 million tonnes in 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antwerp sees Chicago, Montreal and Houston as central its strategy to formulate new trade partners. Chicago is the logistics hub for the Midwest, it is a base for huge companies such as Kraft Foods, Caterpillar and Sara Lee. Montreal is the largest Canadian trading partner for the port and Houston is the largest second largest American trading partner for Antwerp \u2013 it is also home to the largest petrochemical cluster in the world. This is all trade that the port wants a piece of.<\/p>\n<p>Each year some 20 million tonnes of freight travels between the US and Antwerp with 4.9 million tonnes between Antwerp and Canada \u2013 13.5% of Antwerp\u2019s total shipping freight volume, so a large chunk of their business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The port of Antwerp is looking to consolidate its market share in the US whilst building new relationships \u2013 and to this end it has undertaken an all American road trip aimed at promoting the ports\u2019 advantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","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=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}