7 Oct '13

Flemish delegation to visit Yorkshire

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A group of Flemish business representatives will visit Hull on 10 October to participate in Doing Business in Belgium seminar.

World Trade Centre Hull & Humber is co-organising business seminar

A group of representatives of businesses in Flanders will visit Hull in Yorkshire on 10 October to take part in the seminar Doing Business in Belgium. The delegation includes Miel Vermorgen, director of sales and logistics at the port of Zeebrugge; Ben De Smit, economic and commercial counsellor for Flanders Investment & Trade at its London office; and Michel Vanhoonacker, chairman of the Belgian Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.
 

“Throughout its history, Zeebrugge has been the port through which the largest quantity of cargo has passed to and from the UK,” Vermorgen told Flanders Today. “Over time, Zeebrugge has also grown as a platform for continental Europe: Our rail network, thanks to the two turntables of Dourges and Duisburg, now reaches the whole of southern Europe, all the way to the eastern edge of continental Europe. It’s certainly worthwhile to bring these developments to light, especially for a market such as the UK, which is of crucial importance for our port.”

Peter Brown, director of World Trade Centre Hull & Humber, which is helping organise the seminar, agreed: “Zeebrugge is one of the fastest growing ports between Le Havre and Hamburg, which together handle more than a billion tonnes of cargo a year,” he said. “Flanders is a prime business region and strategically located in the centre of the most prosperous part of Europe.”

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Port of Zeebrugge

The port of Zeebrugge is a relatively young seaport. With many car manufacturers using the port as a distribution turntable, it’s a market leader in north-western Europe in roll-on roll-off traffic of new cars.
Cargo - The port primarily handles unit loads (containers, new cars and trailers) as well as more conventional cargo (fruit, wood pulp).
Accessibility - The port connects to the inland waterway network through the Boudewijnkanaal and the Ghent-Bruges-Ostend waterway.
Monster cruise - The largest cruise ship to ever dock at a Flemish port was the 15-deck Independence of the Seas. It came to Zeebrugge in 2013.
1 985

major port expansion works

28 000

direct and indirect port jobs

695 000

tonnes of freight handled annually

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  • Association Port of Zeebrugge Interests
  • Flemish Port Commission

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