• Port of Antwerp: container traffic up 19%

    During the first nine months of this year the port of Antwerp handled more than 132 million tonnes of freight (132,188,379 tonnes). This represents a rise of 13.2% compared with the same period last year, when the volume was almost 117 million tonnes. These figures bring Antwerp back to the same ...

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  • First Indian elected to chair Antwerp Diamond Centre

    Nishit Parikh, chief executive of Diarough, has been elected president of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) for a term of two years. Parikh, a naturalised Belgian, is the first president of Indian origin to hold the post. The AWDC is the official representative body for the Antwerp diamond ...

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  • Ineos to build ethylene tank terminal in Antwerp

    Ineos Oxide will build an ethylene tank terminal with an annual capacity of 1 million tons in Zwijndrecht, in the Antwerp port area. The project is supposed to be operational as from 2012. According to Ineos Oxide’s CEO Hans Casier the investment will drastically change Europe’s ethyl...

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