Port of Ghent

Port of Ghent
Data
Port type	seaport
Throughput	47.712 million t
Container (TEU)	530,823 (2014)
website	Website of the port
Geographic information
place	Ghent
province	East Flanders Province
Country	Belgium
Ghent – ​​Terneuzen Canal
Coordinates	51 ° 6 '21 "  N , 3 ° 44' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '21 "  N , 3 ° 44' 24"  E
Location Port of Ghent

The port of Ghent is the third largest seaport in Belgium after the port of Antwerp and the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge . Today it is located in the north of the city of Ghent on the Zeekanal Gent – ​​Terneuzen . It has direct access to the North Sea via the Gent – ​​Terneuzen Canal .

The size of the lock complex of the access canal in Terneuzen , located in the Netherlands, limits the size of seagoing vessels (not Panamax size ), which is seen as a problem.

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In 2015, a total of 46.5 million tonnes of goods were handled in the port of Ghent (2014: 47.712 million t), of which 26.4 million t were in pure maritime traffic (2014: 25.889 million t). In 2014 there were calls by 2,893 ocean-going vessels and 14,656  inland waterway vessels , and 21,864 million t were handled in inland waterway transport . Mainly bulk goods are handled, mainly dry bulk goods such as agricultural products and iron ores.

Industry

• Heavy industry (blast furnaces, steelworks, rolling mills): ArcelorMittal , specializing in the production of high-quality sheet steel coils for the automotive industry;
• Iron ore and coal are landed from overseas; Iron ore comes mainly from Brazil, hard coal from the USA, China and South Africa
• Refined products are shipped overseas.
• Car and truck assembly: Volvo Cars Gent and Volvo Trucks
• Paper mill: Stora Enso te Langerbrugge
• Chemistry: Nilefos (as of 2009)
• Electricity company: Electrabel Rodenhuize

Operating company

In 2012/13 the legal form of the 'Ghent Port Company' was changed; since then it has been a 'limited liability company under public law'. The shareholders are the city of Ghent, the municipalities of Evergem and Zelzate and the province of East Flanders.

Web links

• Official site of the port ( English / Dutch )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Annual report 2014 of the Port of Ghent ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 27, 2015. 
2. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Ghent maintains the previous year's result · Inland shipping showed some weaknesses in 2014 · Schleusenengpass felt again . In: Daily port report from January 15, 2015, p. 13
3. ^ Frank Binder: Gent: Less cover . In: Daily port report from January 18, 2016, p. 16
4. ↑ Turnover figures for the port of Ghent ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Flemish, accessed February 16, 2016 
5. ↑ 2013 annual report ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ www.volvotrucks.be: Production en Belgique (viewed May 1, 2015)
7. ↑ 2013 annual report ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.