File photo shows containers in the harbour of Antwerp (Photo by Eric Piermont\/ AFP)<\/p>\n
Brussels, Belgium: An oil spill during a ship refueling operation has halted most traffic in Belgium’s port of Antwerp, Europe’s second-busiest for cargo shipping, the port said Friday.<\/p>\n
“Although the source has been stopped and the directly involved seagoing vessels have been contained for active clean-up operations, the pollution spread further towards the Scheldt (river) overnight,” Antwerp port said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The river is “currently fully closed to traffic” in the section near the dock concerned, with a port spokesman telling AFP traffic was disrupted “certainly for today, possibly for several days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo shows containers in the harbour of Antwerp (Photo by Eric Piermont\/ AFP) Brussels, Belgium: An oil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,3771,7465],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-qatar","tag-the-peninsula"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116379896053427948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943","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=10943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}