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Shortsea Shipping sets a new record in the Flemish ports with almost 145 million tonnes handled (European Shortsea Network)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
(Source. European Shortsea Network). 29/03/2016. With 144,888,087 tonnes, shortsea traffic increased with over 2 million of total tonnage handled in the 4 Flemish ports (1.4% in 2015 compared to 2014 (142,860,448 tonnes)) ... Only Zeebrugge performs better in terms of export than import ... On the Brussels-Scheldt maritime canal 1,022,102 tonnes of shortsea freight were transported (a decrease of -41,127 tonnes or -3.87% compared to 2014)....

Why Belgium?

Edit The Hindu 23 Mar 2016
Terrorist violence is a global problem. Cities across the world all have to be on their guard ... Yet while the problem may be global, the ingredients are almost always specific and local too ... Britain did this to ensure that Antwerp and the mouth of the river Scheldt did not come under hostile control or become “a standing menace to the Thames”, as the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury once put it ... Keywords....

New rail shuttle between Left and Right banks (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority). Named LORO (the Dutch acronym for Left Bank/Right Bank) the new service will operate every weekday, running between the IFB terminal on the Zomerweg road and quays 1700 and 1742 in the Deurganck dock twice per day via the Liefkenshoek rail tunnel underneath the river ... The new rail shuttle is one of the initiatives for further improving trimodal access on the Left Bank of the Scheldt ... Original Document....

HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital Honors Extraordinary Nurses with National DAISY Awards (St Elizabeths Hospital)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
(Source. St Elizabeths Hospital). HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital Honors Extraordinary Nurses with National DAISY Awards. (Belleville, IL) - Recently, HSHS St ... St ... I also have a feeding tube ... Ashley Foppe, Jennifer Jones and Vickie Reno (Critical Care Unit), Jackie Parent and Christopher Scheldt (Med/Surg), Brian Michalowski (Float Pool), Angela Labadie (Outpatient Surgery), Kim Rickhoff (Progressive Care Unit) and Carol Patton (Rehab) ... ###....

Eleonora Maersk sets new draught record for port of Antwerp (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Feb 2016
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority). With this new milestone the port of Antwerp once again demonstrates that it is perfectly accessible even for the very largest container carriers in the world ... The vessel is due to leave the port around 1400 hours and then head to Bremerhaven ... Robert Walter, operations manager at Maersk, is very satisfied that the upriver passage along the Scheldt by the 397 metre-long vessel went without a hitch ... (noodl....

Largest dock in the world to be named the "Kieldrecht lock" (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Feb 2016
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority) ... 'The new lock is located in the Waasland area, and so we wanted the name to reflect this geographical aspect,' a member of the jury explained ... The corresponding lock on the Left bank of the Scheldt, the Kallo lock, is similarly named after another part of Beveren municipality. 'Nameless lock' campaign....

‘Metronome’ officially opened (Universiteit Utrecht)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Jan 2016
(Source. Universiteit Utrecht). The Metronome is a unique invention, designed to enable scale modelling of river estuaries, such as the Westerschelde (Western Scheldt). Places like this are essential for people, plants and animals. The highly impressive research tool was officially opened on 12 January. Tilting container. River estuaries are important areas for both people and nature ... The tilting mimics the ebb and flow of the tides ... (noodl....

Preliminary studies start for Saeftinghe Development Area (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jan 2016
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority) ... To assure this source of prosperity in future the Port Authority has already started preliminary studies for a new tidal dock on the Left bank of the Scheldt. Three preliminary studies ... The archaeological study for its part will examine the various sub-surface strata ... More info....

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea review – across the sea that shaped us

Edit The Guardian 10 Jan 2016
From these sites of myth, rumour and conspiracy (and sometimes outright oddity – have you heard of the micro-nation of Sealand, established in 1967, of which one Michael Bates is prince?), we travel with Blass to the river Scheldt; to Scarborough, Ostend, Holderness (home of the fastest-disappearing coastline in the world); and on to, among many other places, the “almost islands” of Halligen and the proper islands of Shetland ... ....

Double record for port of Antwerp in 2015 (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Dec 2015
Ever since the Middle Ages ships laden with cargo and passengers have found their way up the river Scheldt to Antwerp. After the 'Golden Century' in which Antwerp grew into a prosperous international port, the closure of the Scheldt in 1585 represented a new low in its history. It would be nearly 300 years until the toll on the Scheldt could be finally redeemed in 1863 and the river became fully open to commercial traffic once more....

Road works on Left bank of the Scheldt for a more accessible port (Antwerp Port ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Dec 2015
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority) ... The port of Antwerp is preparing for the move by the MSC shipping company from the Right to the Left bank of the Scheldt, which has made major infrastructure projects necessary ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... - Introduction of an integrated Dynamic Traffic Management system on the Right bank of the Scheldt began in 2012, with real-time information on journey times, route options, incidents, congestion, roadworks etc ... (noodl....

Port of Antwerp goes all-out for accessibility on the Left bank (Antwerp Port Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Dec 2015
The port area on the Left bank of the Scheldt will become the centre of container handling in Antwerp as of next year ... Various initiatives will contribute towards further development of trimodal access on the Left bank of the Scheldt ... - Since the end of 2014 the Liefkenshoek railway link (16.2 km) connects the two banks of the Scheldt....

Port of Antwerp goes all-out for maximum connectivity and accessibility on Left bank (Antwerp Port ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Dec 2015
(Source. Antwerp Port Authority). About half of the container volume is currently handled in the port area on the Right bank of the Scheldt, but once the Swiss shipping company MSC transfers its operations to the Deurganck dock then the Left bank will inevitably become the main focus of container handling in Antwerp ... The 16.2 km Liefkenshoek rail link connecting the two banks of the Scheldt began operation at the end of 2014 ... (noodl....
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