De Haven

Overview

About 72,000 people work in the port of Antwerp-Bruges, the second largest port in Europe. And the jobs they do are extraordinary. Literally and figuratively. Boilers 20 meters high with a weight of 80 tons? They easily lift them from one dock to a gigantic container ship on the other side of the port. A car boat of 182 m long and 32 m wide? They will park them in a dry dock for a while. The largest container ship in the world? They maneuver this through a narrow channel into the Deurganck dock. A suspicious container? One moment, they check that thoroughly. That doesn't often go wrong. But if things go wrong, things can go very wrong very quickly.