MSC wants more spaces for own container and those of the P3 alliance in the port of Antwerp



The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has announced that it will ask the shipment for interest manifestations in order to verify if are interested operators to install activity in the harbour area Deurganck Dock of the Belgian port of call. An operator has already officially communicated it to the agency: draft of the shipowning group Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that it is the second world-wide marine company in the segment of the transport of line for ability to the fleet and is also the main customer of the port of Antwerp.

Group MSC is already anticipates as terminalistica enterprise in the port of Antwerp where, through the filial Terminal Investment Ltd. (TIL), manages the MSC Home Terminal in the harbour area Delwaide Dock where last year it has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to about 4,6 million teu and where does not have more possibility than to widen own activity. Receipt officially a demand by MSC in order to ulteriorly expand own activities to the Duerganck Dock, the Harbour Authority has decided to organize a invitation to introduce manifestations of interest to the aim to lead the procedure in open and transparent way and to verify if on the market in the short term they are proposed equally us concrete and important.

Port Authority has specified that MSC, disabled to grow to the Delwaide Dock, has opted for the Duerganck Dock, situated on the left side of the Schelda river, where intends to recently enliven own cargos and those of the new tight P3 alliance Network with Maersk Line and CMA CGM, respective first and third operator of the market of the containerized transport of line (inforMARE on June 18, 2013), on the managed terminalistica area from PSA Antwerp, branch of terminalista group PSA International of Singapore. The Harbour Authority has explained that the development of the activity of MSC to Antwerp is not only hindered by the impossibility to widen the operations to the Delwaide Dock, area that is situated on the right side of the Schelda, but also from the impossibility to make you in future to land the new portacontainer of the ability to 16.000-18.000 teu used by MSC that could not navigate beyond the lock of Berendrecht.

The Harbour Authority has emphasized that, for various reasons, this development in the segment of the oceanic containerized trade represents an exceptional opportunity for the port of Antwerp and opens new lease on life for the Duerganck Dock.