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Antwerp rains on Rotterdam's parade?

News13 Aug 2013

Just three days before the 18,270 TEU MAERSK McKINNEY MOLLER makes her maiden call in Rotterdam this Friday (16 August), the Port of Antwerp...

News21 Jun 2011

The Antwerp and Flemish authorities are angry that the Dutch government is backing out of the painstakingly negotiated bilateral agreement s...

News13 Jan 2010

The deepening of the river Scheldt can go ahead at last, following today's ruling by the Dutch Court of State...

News26 Aug 2009

The River Scheldt will be deepened as agreed, the Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has assured Belgium's Flemish government, but he...

News1 Aug 2009

The Port of Antwerp has expressed concern over a decision of the Council of State in the Netherlands to suspend the routing decree and one o...

News6 Apr 2009

MSC’s 14,000 TEU BEATRICE is the first ship of such a size to call in Northern Europe. A special trial permit will allow the ship to call ...

News1 Apr 2004

The Scheldt estuary is unusual in that it is controlled by the Dutch but its biggest port is in Belgium. The Dutch have ports on the north a...