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the Harbour Authority of Antwerp will start negotiations with MSC for the transfer of the activities of the company on the Deurganck Dock
The authority they have not reached other manifestation of interest for I use it of the harbour area
February 11, 2014
The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has communicated not to have received some manifestation of interest for the takeover of harbour activities in the area of Deurganck Dock of the Belgian port of call. The harbour authority had demanded the shipment of proposals for the development of the area after at the end last year the shipowning group Genevan Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) had expressed the intention to expand own activities in the port of Antwerp being used areas to the Deurganck Dock having saturated the ability to the superficial ones currently managed to the Delwaide Dock, where last year it has enlivened 4,6 million container teu and where it will not be able to receive the larger new portacontainer that soon they will enter to take part of its fleet ( on 3 December 2013).
Emphasizing that MSC, the second world-wide company of the market of the line transport, and its partner in the new P3 alliance Network, that is the Maersk Line and CMA CGM, respective first and third operator of the market, has confirmed the intention to use the port of Antwerp which hub main of their net of services, the Harbour Authority of the Belgian port of call it has specified that now it will start negotiations in order to estimate as the MSC project can be realized in the port of Antwerp and in particular to the Deurganck Dock.
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