Belgium`s Antwerp and Zeebrugge Seaports Agree to Merge Operations
(WorldNews Belgium)

Belgium’s two large ocean ports announced that they will merge their operations to strengthened their position and prepare for future developments. The cities of Antwerp and Bruges will begin a unification process that is expected to take a year to finalize to unite the management of the industrial ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge making them more resilient to future challenges. The combined operations of the two ports will have an annual throughput of more than 278 million tons becoming one of the largest breakbulk and ro-ro ports in Europe. In 2020, the ports combined handled nearly 14 million TEU, which amounted to 157 million tons of container...