10 April 2026 13:38<\/p>\n
The Belgian port of Antwerp-Bruges has temporarily suspended shipping operations following an oil spill that occurred in one of the docks and spread into the River Scheldt.<\/p>\n
The leak happened during bunkering operations of the container ship MSC Denmark VI at the Deurganckdock, Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, citing Belgian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n The scale of the pollution proved significant, with oil entering both the dock basin and the river, prompting authorities to halt vessel traffic.<\/p>\n An observation aircraft was deployed to assess the impact of the incident.<\/p>\n It was later reported that the leak had been contained, but shipping remains fully suspended, with no vessels currently able to enter or leave the port.<\/p>\n Port authorities said efforts are underway to minimise environmental and economic damage and restore normal operations at one of Europe\u2019s largest ports.<\/p>\n The Port of Antwerp-Bruges is the second-largest cargo port in Europe and handles hundreds of millions of tonnes of cargo annually, with connections to more than 800 destinations worldwide.<\/p>\n By Bakhtiyar Abbasov<\/p>\n Caliber.Az<\/p>\n Views: 24<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 April 2026 13:38 The Belgian port of Antwerp-Bruges has temporarily suspended shipping operations following an oil spill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1258,19,203,1263,1259,1262,1257,1261,1260,1256],"class_list":{"0":"post-10931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antwerp","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-antwerp","10":"tag-azerbaijan","11":"tag-baku","12":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","13":"tag-international-experts","14":"tag-interviews","15":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116379805578865893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}