North Sea Port is a European cross-border port that extends over more than 60 kilometers, 9,100 hectares and two countries: Belgium and the Netherlands. Cross-border cooperation offers enormous opportunities for the region, which also has a positive effect on the national economies of both countries and Europe as well.
North Sea Port aims for sustainable economic activity with high added value. A total of around 550 companies are active within North Sea Port. These companies account for a growing direct and indirect employment of 106.000 people. In this way, the port actively contributes to the prosperity of its region and creates value for its shareholders.
Thanks to its location on the North Sea, the port is directly accessible to maritime shipping, benefitting global trade. North Sea Port is part of the European North Sea-Rhine-Mediterranean and North Sea-Baltic transport corridors (TEN-T), ensuring that goods can be delivered quickly and efficiently to their final destinations by rail, road and/or inland waterway.
Its location, multimodality and diversification in goods make North Sea Port an important European port: the 3rd most important in terms of added value and the 6th in terms of goods traffic (Hamburg-Le Havre Range,2023).
EFIP, bridging towards the EU.
Cooperation is key to remain a resilient and competitive region as well as to deliver on the European agenda. Cooperative networks such as EFIP play an important role to keep us informed, exchange know-how and expertise between ports and represent our interests at European institutions and policy makers.
North Sea Port has been contributing on a technical level and sees the network as a strong asset that complements its European Public Affairs strategy.
Investments & developments.
In addition to “more traditionally seen” infrastructure projects and investments, such as for example the new lock complex in Terneuzen NL (“North Sea Locks”), projects related to the energy transition, circular economy and digitalisation are taking speed.
