Maritime traffic in and out of the Port of Antwerp has been be suspended from 19:30 local time on Monday, 13 October, until 07:30 on Wednesday, 15 October.<\/p>\n
As stated, the disruption is due to reduced staffing at the Zandvliet Traffic Control Centre during Belgium\u2019s national strike on 14 October. Moreover, the Joint Nautical Authority has ordered a full stoppage in the Zandvliet sector of the River Scheldt to allow vessel movements to wind down safely before the closure takes effect.<\/p>\n
This temporary halt follows ongoing industrial action by Flemish harbour pilots, who have been operating strictly within daytime hours since 5 October. The Port of Antwerp-Bruges previously reported that these limitations were already causing \u201ca significant number of vessels [to be] delayed on both inbound and outbound traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n
As of 13 October, 93 vessels were in port without a confirmed schedule and 19 were reported delayed. All locks and bridges are functioning normally, with the exception of the Boudewijn Lock and the Zandvliet Lock, which are out of service.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maritime traffic in and out of the Port of Antwerp has been be suspended from 19:30 local time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,3690,2305,976],"class_list":{"0":"post-4813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antwerp","8":"tag-antwerp","9":"tag-maritime-traffic","10":"tag-port-of-antwerp","11":"tag-strike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116172301670219134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}