The Port of Antwerp on Wednesday informed it has awarded a breakbulk concession to PSA Breakbulk NV, providing further boost to project cargo and breakbulk segment. Read more
The breakbulk segment in Antwerp had its best three months since the second quarter of 2019. Antwerp’s breakbulk volume has taken heavy hits in the past two years but in the past quarter, it was...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Mammoet has transported a 1,400-tonne C3 splitter column to the new Borealis propane dehydrogenation (PDH) site in the Belgian village Kallo. The 109-metre long and 10-metre wide propylene splitter is one of...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Breakbulk event Antwerp XL has been further postponed to 10-12 March 2021. Belgian restrictions in force to August 30th make it “extremely difficult” to plan and promote the event, which had initially...Read more
Antwerp’s breakbulk sector has taken another massive beating in the first quarter of 2020, dropping a staggering 27.8%. The Antwerp port authority says “the vicissitudes of world trade since mid-2019 continue to weigh on the...Read more
The ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge have restarted merger negotiations. Previous talks stranded in April as Antwerp wanted all mandates and boards to be divided proportionally, which would mean Zeebrugge would hardly have a say...Read more
The trade war and economic slowdown have negatively impacted breakbulk volumes in Antwerp. Overall breakbulk volumes including ro/ro dropped by 9% in the first nine months of this year. The throughput of conventional breakbulk, which...Read more
Multipurpose vessel BBC Amethyst is the first vessel to make the crossing from Antwerp to Porto do Açu in Brazil, a private port in which Port of Antwerp participates with the ultimate goal to strengthen...Read more
Multipurpose vessel operator MACS has changed its terminal in Antwerp. As from June 1st, all MACS vessel will call at Zuidnatie Breakbulk which is able to handle MACS entire cargo portfolio, the company states.
“Zuidnatie’s experienced...Read more
Europe’s biggest breakbulk port, Antwerp, posted another decline in throughput of conventional breakbulk cargoes. The port contributes the decrease to the “exceptional” first quarter of 2018 when anticipated US import levies drove a build-up of...Read more
The Belgian family-owned transport company Aertssen Group has taken over the activities from ADM Team Heavy Weight, another Belgian transport company specialized in exceptional and heavy loads. With the takeover, Aertssen gains control of a...Read more
‘The breakbulk market on the quay and that on the water seem like two completely different worlds that co-exist in parallel’, it says in the opening story of this edition of Spotlight, which is fully...Read more
2015 was a good year for Antwerp. The port handled 208 million tonnes of cargo in total, a 4.5% increase. Breakbulk also saw further growth by 1.2%. Read more
