Ghent storage space gets green light
Europe’s main biofuel production port, and a key player in bulk liquid fuel storage, Ghent has 600 hectares of land available for investment following 14 years of infrastructural work.
The new space has already attracted 13 companies and at the end of November Brazil-based Companhia Brasileira de Logistica announced it would invest €70 million in the construction of a liquid bulk terminal, while yet another major foreign investment project is expected by the end of the year.
The infrastructural works took place on the Kluizendock in the Ghent harbour. The Kluizen dock, which is the equivalent of the Deurganck dock for Antwerp or the Second Maas plain for Rotterdam, is intended to be the new engine for the port. At 400 hectares, the dock is the epicentre of the available investment zone.
Some €145 million of the €190 million investment was subsidised by the Flemish authorities.
Aside from land at the Kluizendok, there is also 160 hectares in land available in the neighbouring industrial park De Nest, a project by the private company G12 (the Maes group) and 100 hectares in the Rieme-Noord area, which is a joint venture by the Port of Ghent company, the Flemish authorities and the municipality of Evergem.
This has resulted in one of the largest greenfields of unexploited industrial areas in Europe. It is hoped that the additional land will double transhipment in Ghent in the next decade to 50 million tonnes.
Furthermore, Ghent could almost double the 80 hectare dock to the south, consuming land that falls under the municipality of Evergem.
This will however depend on the construction of the new sea lock in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. If this lock is constructed, it will allow large sea ships access to Ghent.
The new space has already attracted 13 companies and at the end of November Brazil-based Companhia Brasileira de Logistica announced it would invest €70 million in the construction of a liquid bulk terminal, while yet another major foreign investment project is expected by the end of the year.
The infrastructural works took place on the Kluizendock in the Ghent harbour. The Kluizen dock, which is the equivalent of the Deurganck dock for Antwerp or the Second Maas plain for Rotterdam, is intended to be the new engine for the port. At 400 hectares, the dock is the epicentre of the available investment zone.
Some €145 million of the €190 million investment was subsidised by the Flemish authorities.
Aside from land at the Kluizendok, there is also 160 hectares in land available in the neighbouring industrial park De Nest, a project by the private company G12 (the Maes group) and 100 hectares in the Rieme-Noord area, which is a joint venture by the Port of Ghent company, the Flemish authorities and the municipality of Evergem.
This has resulted in one of the largest greenfields of unexploited industrial areas in Europe. It is hoped that the additional land will double transhipment in Ghent in the next decade to 50 million tonnes.
Furthermore, Ghent could almost double the 80 hectare dock to the south, consuming land that falls under the municipality of Evergem.
This will however depend on the construction of the new sea lock in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. If this lock is constructed, it will allow large sea ships access to Ghent.
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