Port of AntwerpSystems and sub-systems

• Main port of Belgium

• World’s 15th largest port (Source: UNCTAD)

• One of the three main gateways to Europe with 15

million TEU capacity

• Seven container terminals (PSA operate 5 terminals, DP

World’s Antwerp Gateway and Independent Maritime Terminal )

• Landlord : The Port of Antwerp Authority

• Heavily affected by the downturn in 2012

• Strategically located to cater cargo from North and

South America, Africa and Asia

• Strongly connected to foreland by

Connecting to more than 800 foreland locations

Using more than 300 liner services

• Investments and projects in Oman, India, Brazil and

West Africa to strengthen foreland richness

• 60% of European purchasing and producing power lies

within a radius of 500 km from Antwerp

• Connects hinterland via Road network (More than 200,000 truck loads per day)

Rail network (more than 250 goods trains per day)

Barge services (35% of container traffic transported through barges)

• Antwerp caters main European countries such as

Belgium - Bulgaria - Germany - France - Hungary - Italy -

Luxembourg- Netherlands - Austria - Poland - Romania -

Slovakia - Spain – Czech Republic - Switzerland

Road network connecting hinterland

Rail network connecting hinterland

Barge services connectivity

• The navigation possibilities for - Perfectly accessible to the biggest container vessels with

a length in excess of 360 meters (capsize vessels )

• Length of the quay wall is 1220 Km

• Total surface area of the port is 13,057 ha of which 2,028 is water surface

• Road network inside the port area– Inside the port Antwerp there are 409 Km length roads

which connecting different functions of the port.

• Rail network inside the port area– 1061 Km long railway is inside the port area.

Deepening of the Scheldt - depth & tidal sheet

• Well accessibility through the multimodal

transportation

– Fast access to international road network

• The results the port has achieved by having a

strong inland waterway connection.

• 48.000 handled barges in 2012

• 915 barge calls per week

• 200 container barge shuttles per week

• 85 barge operators (of which 45 for container)

Ultra Modern Gantry Cranes: Vessels up to 18000TEUS

Container Cranes:• Have a reach of 24 containers wide

• Weather-protected cargoveyors.

• Cold chain is uninterrupted (waterside warehouse)

• Mobile cranes (up to 100 tonnes) with automatic spreaders: 100 containers/ hour

• Smooth discharge from specialized reefer vessels

Advantages/ Disadvantages• Specialist container terminal

• Efficient handling

• Modern technique and handling systems

• Efficient work forces with highly trained workers

• High initial cost/ High operating cost

Automatic Identification System RFID

Waterside:

• Automated stacking area: fully automated (zero trucks/ humans)

• Automated Straddle carriers: Terminal logistics system (with GPS, magnet systems, laser sensors)

• The automation app APICS2

• Rubber tyred gantry

• Prime movers

Landside:• Straddle carriers

• Trucks/ Prime movers

• Rubber tired Gantry

Advantages/ Disadvantages:

• Straddle carriers do not wait to pick up or deliver containers

• Equipment works independently

• No wait for other equipment

• Constant transfer of containers

• Double cycling

• Equipment works independently/ no wait for other equipment

• Constant transfer of containers

High operating cost

6.1 million m² covered storage for LCL cargo and value additions

Temperature controlled warehouses with dedicated 160,000 cbm for chilled and frozen food

Dedicated fruit terminal with 450 reefer plugs

Direct EDI links from storage system to customer systems

Some of the state of art equipment used

Mobile cranes equipped with automatic bromma spreaders –Hand jacks - Low lift pallet trucks – Forklifts – Reach trucks -

dock shelters - Pallet cages

Storage subsystem is

Very efficient

Safe

Well connected with information systems

Enable value additions and consolidations

Planned for the future

But

Equipment are costly

Less effective with lower demand levels

Efficiency of the systems

advantage and disadvantage of using the

particular equipment systems

• minimizing inland logistics costs

• logistics requirement of the customers

leads to money-wasting peaks in inland

logistics costs

The Port of Antwerp today, some remarkable

potentials

• Total area: 13.057 ha, 160 km quays, 1061 km railways

• Upstream river Scheldt, 80 kilometers inland from North Sea

avoiding many truckloads being carried over the same distance

• 2011: handling 187 million tones of cargo

2nd largets port in Europe

• 5,4 million m² warehouse capacity

by far the largest provider of storage of all

European ports

• Largest and most diversified petrochemical

cluster in Europe

7 of the 10 largest chemical companies have

one or more production sites

• Freight volume was up by 3.5% to 190.6 million tones which

represents an increase of 3.5% compared with 2012 when the volume

came to 184.1 million tones, making 2013 a new record year for

Belgium's principal port.

• Incensement of the volumes

• The port of Antwerp handled 190,849,079 tones of freight last year, an

increase of 3.6% compared with 2012

• Liquid bulk rose over the past 12 months by 31.4%

• Crude oil expanded by a massive 83.4%

• Chemicals for their part were up by 9.7%

• Number of cars actually rose by 4.8%

Port of AntwerpOne of the Main Suppliers

to the European Union

• Germany

• Poland

• France

• Austria

• Hungary

• Italy

• Czech Rep.

• Slovakia

• Slovenia

• Etc.

Comparison of container throughput with

Port of Antwerp

In the heart of producing and consuming Europe

Rapid and flexible access to end customers and suppliers

High productivity and excellent services

Shorter lead time

Great care and quality control lower costs

Available room and largest storage space

Capacity expansion possible possibility of buffer stocks

Reliable infrastructure to transport products

Cooperation around sustainable energy

Small carbon footprint

Lower energy invoice support and

Europe’s biggest chemical industrial and logistics cluster