January 2020
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Port of Antwerp plays an increasingly important role in the reefer market. A growing number of reefer services from Latin America now call first at Antwerp. This resulted in strong expansion of 7.2% in the volume of reefer containers in 2019. The port's favourable location and excellent level of service have convinced shipping companies to choose Antwerp as their first port of call.
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Pharmaceuticals logistics specialist Yusen is expanding its facilities in Antwerp. The Japanese company is starting construction of a new, semi-automated warehouse with 13,000 pallet places at its site on the Left bank.
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The container volume handled by Port of Antwerp is growing year after year and now represents a large share of the total freight volume. In 2019 the number of Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU) rose by 6.9% to 11.87 million. Additional space is now required in order to cope with this growth. In December last year the Flemish government announced a definite preference in the choice of alternatives for the complex project entitled "Extra Container Capacity in Antwerp."
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In August 2019 Port of Antwerp launched a competition for a new technique to clean up plastic pellets that have been accumulating on the Galgeschoor, a stretch of foreshore on the river Scheldt near the port. A jury of innovation and environmental exports chose the Nul-O-Plastic technique offered by Envisan (a member of the Jan De Nul group) out of more than 50 entries. This solution uses a suction device to deal with legacy pollution
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With the new Hakka platform hauliers are able to swap containers so as to avoid empty trips, thus also reducing road congestion and CO2 emissions. Hakka responded to a Request for Proposals by Port of Antwerp in 2018, and in 2019 alone it prevented 150,000 empty trips.
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Port of Antwerp is taking yet another important step in the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon port. Eight leading players in the port area – Air Liquide, BASF, Borealis, INEOS, ExxonMobil, Fluxys, Port of Antwerp and Total – have signed a collaboration agreement as the first move towards the possible development of Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) infrastructure.