The shipping platform

Location: The port of Ghent is linked to the North Sea via the Western Scheldt. General overview: Ghent is linked to international sea routes by an artificial canal, which has no tides or currents. This maritime canal has a width of 200m and a depth of 13.5m and is accessible to vessels of up to 80,000DWT. Vessels with a max draught of 9.0m can sail in/out of Ghent at any time, irrespective of tides. The Ghent port area consists of a total of 3,291ha, divided into 511ha water surface, (canal and docks) and 2,780ha land. The port has up to date facilities including newly built warehouses and modern cranes. During the last ten years the port has seen an expansion of its seaborne cargo handling, while at the same time a diversification in its traffic flow has occurred. Barge traffic plays an important part in the port's activities, arriving at the port via the European inland waterway system. Principal commodities handled: Break bulk, such as paper and cellulose, timber and tree logs, iron and steel, cereals and derivatives, cars, trucks and spare parts. Bulk goods such as coal, ores, fertilisers, sand, gravel and minerals, deep frozen concentrated fruit juice and petroleum products. Traffic figures: Approx 27,000,000t of cargo, 35,900TEU and 3,500 vessels handled annually. Load line zone: -North Atlantic Winter Seasonal Zone II, -Winter Nov 1 to Mar 31, -Summer Apr 1 to Oct 31. Max size: LOA 265m, beam 34m, draught 12.5m FW, 80,000DWT. Lifts & Cranes: 25 - 49 Tons, 0 - 24 Tons, Mobile & Floating cranes. 1) Fertilizer & Minerals Terminals. The terminal is specialized in dry bulk operations with an extended warehouse footprint for fertilizers and minerals with strong sieving competences. Big bagging services are offered at Quay 280. Our dry bulk terminals at Quay 280 and 850 in the Port of Ghent are accessible to Panamax size ships and have direct access to rail, road and inland waterway transport serving the heartland of continental Europe. Draft 12.32 m/beam 34 m.Cranes: 3 all purpose equilibrium cranes, 1 floating crane, 1 mobile Gottwald 100 T. Storage capacity (t): 250,000. Covered warehouses (m²): 54,000. Products handled: Fertilisers, Minerals. 2) Ghent Container Terminal (Number of berth 3). Ghent Container Terminal, located in Belgium, offers services such as: Security, Customs, Container Maintenance, Container Repair, Container Cleaning, Dangerous Goods, Reefer, Trucking. Terminal total area is 100000 m2. Terminal handling capabilities: Container | Swap Body. 3) Arcelormittal (Number of berth 3) Operating the All Weather Terminal (AWT) with its advanced automated warehousing and quay supply. This in a temperature and humidity-controlled stock zone with a covered loading area to allow continuity of operations regardless of weather conditions. Delivery of non-quay associated activities on production site ArcelorMittal Ghent (AMG) with trained dockers, such as: discharging convoys of trains and trucks of incoming coils, skidded coils, and sheets, including the necessary storage services. Operating a breakbulk quay for the cargo of AMG and external parties, such as the handling of slabs and project cargo services. Discharging iron ores, coal, cokes, scrap, and fluxes from AMG’s bulk quays and loading blast furnace sand and slag. Draft 18.5m/Beam 40m. Cranes: 8 cranes 20T -> 50T. Products handled: Break bulk: handling and shipping operations for coils, skidded coils, sheets, and slabs.