Record freight year for Antwerp

The inquiry on the WOW project for Antwerp’s ECA complex is complete, and the port’s expansion plans aim to boost capacity from 15 to 22 million TEU by 2030.

Sallaum is investing €20 million in Antwerp Terminal to expand capacity, aiming for 17,000 units and net zero emissions by 2030.

“We do not sell these products ourselves; it is the demonstrators themselves that decide who they partner up with,” the port said in the statement to WorldCargo News.

Tuesday (13 February) saw disgruntled farmers use their tractors to blockade roads around Europe’s second largest container port, Antwerp, severely disrupting traffic flows into the port and affecting overall cargo-handling operations.

Combined throughput of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, which were formally merged in April 2022, was just 0.7% down on their throughputs in 2021, although container business suffered

Antwerp Euroterminal is increasing its automobile storage capacity by 25% with a 6-storey garage, providing 148,000 m2 of parking slots on a footprint of 24,000 m2