News / Port authority greenlights talks with MSC over new home for the carrier at Antwerp

© Khunaspix Dreamstime.

The role of Antwerp as a north-west European hub port for the proposed P3 Alliance took another step forward this week after the port authority announced that it was to proceed with discussions with P3 partner MSC on the development of a new terminal.

MSC is already Antwerp’s largest container customer, with a throughput last year of 4.6m teu, which represented more than half of the port’s total. Late last year the line applied to develop new facilities in the Deurganck ...