Gent, Belgien

Bulk Ghent is Europe’s leader port in cereals and derivatives with an overall storage capacity of over one million tons. Other bulk commodities like coal, ores, petroleum products, minerals, fertilizers and animal feed make up another large part of the port's traffic figures.

Automotive Car and truck assembly and the distribution of cars hold out strongly in Ghent. Linked to the assembly plants are several companies manufacturing or supplying car components and spare parts.

Steel A major steel mill takes full advantage of the port’s facilities to tranship raw materials from deep-sea bulkers directly into the mill and for exporting steel products directly from mill to vessel and inland barge. Stevedores offer dedicated temperature and humidity-controlled steel warehouses. Also scrap is home in Ghent with the terminal of a leading European recycling and scrapping company.

Paper and forest products Production and recycling as well as imports and physical distribution of paper and pulp have been a common activity in Ghent seaport for a long time already. Also wood, be it from North Europe, the Americas, Asia or Africa as long as it is environmental friendly and sustainably harvested, will find its way through the Ghent port-based importers. New and strongly growing products are peat, wood chips and pellets.

… and a developing business port for tomorrow

All the time, we continue working on the development of new industrial areas and quays adapted to your needs.

Currently we opened up 400 hectares of greenfield land at the ‘Kluizendok’ for industrial and physical distribution projects.

Advantages are:

- shorter sailing times

- 4 km of quay length

- integrated container terminal

- large lots available

- direct connection to R4 ring road

- fully intermodal.

Furthermore, we develop the 80 hectare dry port of ‘Rieme North’, in the vicinity of the Kluizendok. This dry port will be available by 2010, specifically for warehousing and physical distribution activities.

Container and ro/ro port

Our congestion-free container terminals guarantee fast handling of both Short Sea Shipping and of regular inland navigation feeder services with Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugge.

Besides the daily Scandinavia ro/ro service with Gothenburg, Ghent also has regular ro/ro and lo/lo liner services with Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Norway, Russia and the Far East.