About us

Port of Antwerp has an important role in the daily operation of the port. The 1,650 employees ensure that the port functions and can grow. It manages and maintains the docks, the bridges, the locks, the quay walls, its own buildings and the land.

Moreover, the personnel are responsible for safe shipping traffic at the docks, the bridges and the locks. In addition, the Port Authority provides tugs, does the dredging and promotes the port both at home and abroad. With a view to the future, Port of Antwerp is working on the sustainable expansion and modernisation of the port.

Alfaport Voka is the platform by and for companies and professional associations* from the port of Antwerp between Voka - Chamber of Commerce and Industry Antwerp-Waasland. Alfaport Voka is aiming for an accessible, facilitative, cost-competitive and sustainable port of Antwerp with a view to embedding sustainable employment and added value at the port.

Alfaport Voka came about on 1 January 2014 from the integration of Alfaport Antwerp, the federation of port-related and logistics companies at the port, with Voka - Chamber of Commerce and Industry Antwerp-Waasland.

Alfaport-Voka serves to promote the following themes:

• environment and sustainability
• trade facilitation / customs / excise
• accessibility
• labour market
• Flemish port area
• port regulations and practices
• mobility

 

* RBSA (Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association); ASF (Antwerp Shipping Federation); ABAS (Professional Association of Antwerp Master Stevedores and Port Operators); VEA (Antwerp Freight Forwarding Association); KVBG (Royal Association of Traffic flow Controllers)

APZI (Association Port of Zeebrugge Interests) is the interest group of companies in the port area of Zeebrugge and fulfils a double task in the port community: the representation of the Zeebrugge private sector and the promotion of the port in general. APZI was founded as a non-profit organisation and represents 160 affiliated companies: stevedores, schipping companies and shipping agents, forwarding agents, transport companies (road, rail and inland navigation) and companies engaged in port activities (trade, industry and services).

 

Since 2017 APZI and Voka West Flanders have been working on a growing collaboration. Together they represent 320 port-related companies towards politicians and stakeholders and they strive for a business-friendly climate that supports port companies in Zeebrugge in their further growth.

 

The Scheldt Left Bank Corporation (‘Maatschappij Linkerscheldeoever’, or MLSO), has been responsible for the management and land policy of the port on the left bank of the Scheldt since 1982, has been responsible for the management and land policy for the Waasland port since 1982. MLSO's purpose is the land policy for the port area in the Scheldt Left Bank area, the industrialisation policy for the industrial area located within this port area and outlining the sub-regional policy on the further development and phased planning for the port area in the Scheldt Left Bank Area.

Its most important activities are making the land ripe for construction, granting concessions to businesses, acquiring land and advising the authorities on the further development of the port area.