Port of Zeebrugge
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The Port of Zeebrugge is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles, and passenger ferry terminal port in Bruges, Flemish city, Belgium, handling over 30 million tones of cargo annually. This includes over 10 million tonnes each of both roll-on/roll-off and containerized cargo. Two-thirds of the total cargo is shipped to other European ports. The port has become a major European port since a major expansion that occurred from 1972 to 1985, since that time total tonnage has doubled. The port employs over 11,000 people and handles over 10,000 ship moorings annually.
It is now the most important European handling terminal for natural gas LNG thanks to the connection with the sea pipe, connecting it to the main Norwegian gas fields in the North Sea. LNG is also shipped in from Algeria.
On 6 March 1987, the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise (owned by Townsend-Thoresen) was just outside the port, when the bow doors of the ferry were not closed fast enough and the ferry took on water, became unstable and capsized, killing 189 passengers.
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[edit] Port lay-out
The port of Zeebrugge consists of an inner port and an outer port. These ports are separated by means of a gate. Below, the different terminals are given.
[edit] Inner port terminals
- Combined Terminal Operators (CTO) - conventional general cargo & new cars
- Belgian New Fruit Wharf - supplies fruit (bananas, kiwis and apples)
- Zeebrugse Behandelingsmaatschappij (ZBM) - importation: coal & iron ore
- Cast container (later transformed - Canada terminal of SeaRo - new cars)
- Andrew’s Fruit Terminal
- Zeebrugse Visveiling
- Gas terminal - Statoil
- World Port Services (distribution of new cars)
- Flanders Cold Center (deep-freeze warehouse)
- Bridgestone-Firestone (distribution of tires)
- Wallenius-Wilhelmsen Lines & Toyota (new cars)
[edit] Outport terminals
- LNG - Distrigas
- Brittannia RoRo - SeaRo
- P&O North Sea Ferries (passenger & freight)
- Flanders Container Terminals
- Dart Line RoRo - Hessenatie
- Forest products - StoraEnso (operator SeaRo)
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| Sea ports: port of Antwerp | port of Ghent | port of Ostend | port of Zeebrugge | |
| Inland ports: port of Brussels | port of Charleroi| port of Liège | |
