This document provides information about logistics services available through the Port of Antwerp in Belgium. It begins with an agenda outlining insights into the European market, Port of Antwerp's services, and reasons to believe in the port. It then discusses the large European consumer market, Antwerp's excellent maritime connectivity globally and to Brazil, its strategic location as a gateway to the European customs union, and its inland transportation connections. The document highlights value-added logistics services available and the port's expertise, and provides quotes from satisfied customers emphasizing Antwerp's flexibility, cost effectiveness and ability to respond to market demands. Contact information is provided for representatives that can answer further questions.

1. Belgian Day
Stefanie D’Herde
Marketing Coordinator Latin America
Antwerp Port Authority
27th March
2014

2. Se você procura futebol de
categoria mundial, nenhum
lugar é melhor que o Brasil.
Se você procura logística de
categoria mundial, nenhum
lugar é melhor que Antuérpia.
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3. 1.Insights in the European Market
2. Port of Antwerp’s services offer
3.Reasons to believe
Agenda

4. The European market
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+ 600 million consumers
Important consumers of :
- Meat (pork, poultry, beef)
- Fresh fruit
- Juices
- Vegetables: Soja, …
- Coffee
- Sugar
- Tobacco
- Ores & minerals
- Wood, pulp
- Chemicals
- Granite
- Leather parts
- …

5. Antwerp’s service offer:
1.Excellent maritime
connectivity
2.Gateway to the European
Customs Union
3.Strategic inland location
and quadrimodal
connectivity
4.Industrial & Value added
logistics services for your
cargo
5.Knowledge & expertise

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Excellent worldwide maritime connectivity
BREAKBULK SERVICES
• Largest concentration (250+) of regular
breakbulk sailings per month
• Brazil:
Direct services to 1400 ports worldwide
CONTAINER SERVICES
• Market leader on Middle East, North & Latin
America, India, Africa (TEU)
• Brazil:

7. 1.Excellent maritime
connectivity
2.Gateway to the European
Customs Union
3. Strategic inland location
and quadrimodal
connectivity
4.Industrial & Value added
logistics services for your
cargo
5.Knowledge & expertise

8. Antwerp, fastest & most cost-efficient gateway to
the single European market
1 Customs Union with 28 member states
- One uniform customs
regulation
- Customs duties are
harmonized within the
Union
- Application of uniform
rules of origin and quotas
• After customs clearance in
Antwerp, goods can travel as
free goods between the EU
Member States
• Taxes can be delayed until
arrival at destination
The entire European Union can be
served via Port of Antwerp

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Fastest import process thanks to customs
preclearance, electronic customs proces

10. Advantages:
• No transit document needed to transport
containers from terminal to warehouse
• Cost optimization: no or postponed duties & taxes
• Re-export (ex: Russia, Turkey, Morocco, …)
• Import (EU member states)
• Transit (ex. Switserland)
Antwerp, most storage facilities allowing deferral of
duties & taxes
Bonded customs warehousing  most of the warehouses in the port are bonded

11. 1.Excellent maritime
connectivity
2.Gateway to the European
Customs Union
3. Strategic inland location
and quadrimodal
connectivity
4.Industrial & Value added
logistics services for your
cargo
5.Knowledge & expertise

12. Deep inland and central location in Europe
Closest to highly populated regions…
60% of
Europe’s
production &
consumption
power

13. … to major production centres…
60% of
Europe’s
production &
consumption
power

14. and major distribution centres…

15. Superior quadri-modal connectivity…
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INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
Water transport

16. Superior quadri-modal connectivity
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INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
Train transport
Water transport

17. Superior quadri-modal connectivity
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INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
— Railway
— Motorway
Road transport
Train transport
Water transport

18. Superior quadri-modal connectivity
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INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
— Railway
— Motorway
INLAND
CONNECTIVITY
— Waterway
— Railway
— Motorway
— Pipeline
Pipeline transport
Road transport
Train transport
Water transport

19. From landed Antwerp to major markets like the North
of France, the South of The Netherlands and Western
Germany, Antwerp is substantially more …
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TIME-EFFECTIVE
40’ Reefer ctr
hinterland delivery
between 3 to 6 hrs
faster than
Rotterdam !
COST-EFFECTIVE
40’ Reefer ctr
hinterland cost
between 9 and 18%
cheaper than
Rotterdam !
EFFICIENT
Clearing process starts
2-3 days before ETA
Antwerp !
Integrated Border
Inspection Control

20. 1.Excellent maritime
connectivity
2.Gateway to the European
Customs Union
3. Strategic inland location
and quadrimodal
connectivity
4.Industrial & Value added
logistics services for your
cargo
5. Knowledge & expertise

21. Highly productive and customer oriented
Antwerp service providers

22. Value added logistics services…
Drumming
Quality control
Bagging
Stuffing & stripping
Packaging

23. Service centers
Steel service centers
Paper cutting center

24. 1.Excellent maritime
connectivity
2.Gateway to the European
Customs Union
3. Strategic inland location
and quadrimodal
connectivity
4.Industrial & Value added
logistics services for your
cargo
5. Knowledge & expertise

25. Antwerp, knowledge & expertise center
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World partner
in Port Training
Consultancy &
investments in
port management &
development
Facilitating
Headquarters in
Antwerp & Belgium

26. Reasons to believe

27. Quotes of customers using the Port of Antwerp as a
maritime and logistics platform
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“Using the port of Antwerp allows
us to significantly reduce our
supply chain variability, one of our
major business goals”
Tom France, CATERPILLAR
“Center of our shipping business is at Antwerp. Since
many years, Port of Antwerp has been number 1
breakbulk and project cargo port in Europe for Chipolbrok,
both in terms of import and export goods.”
Radoslaw Chmielinski, CHIPOLBROK

28. Quotes of customers using the Port of Antwerp as a
maritime and logistics platform
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“Antwerp's service providers
offer us the flexibility
required to be successful in
our business ”
Michael Slap, SOLVENTIS
“The port of Antwerp is the
reason we still exist today”
Ivan De Donder,
STORA ENSO LUMIPAPER

29. Quotes of customers using the Port of Antwerp as a
maritime and logistics platform
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“15 Million bonita boxes through the Port of Antwerp
every year, require an excellent service.”
“We tried out other ports in the past but always came
back to Antwerp due to a combination of factors.
Antwerp is ideally located and has good connections
to our European market. The distances are shorter
and thanks to the abundance of backhaul, land
transport costs are lower.”
Erik Goetschalckx, BONITA
“Flexibility and fast, high-quality service
mean that in Antwerp we can respond
effectively to market demand. ”
Yvan Rombouts, BELGIAN COFFEE
FEDERATION

30. Convinced?
Using Antwerp as a European logistics centre
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31. Sven Josten
Business Development Manager
Sven.josten@portofantwerp.com
Stefanie D’Herde
Marketing Communication Coordinator Latin America
Stefanie.dherde@portofantwerp.com
Henrique Machado Rabelo
Port representative in Brazil
henrique.rabelo@portofantwerp.com
Isabelle Bédoyan
Belgian Customs Attaché in Brazil
isabelle.bedoyan@minfin.fed.be
We are available for your questions
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33. More information
• Port of Antwerp: www.portofantwerp.com/en/business-0
• APEC Port Training Center : www.portofantwerp.com/apec/html_en/en_start.php
• Port of Antwerp International (consultancy & investments):
www.portofantwerp.com/en/port-antwerp-international-0
• Antwerp Headquarters (facilitating set up of international headquarters in Antwerp and
Belgium): www.antwerpheadquarters.be