Belgian Day

Stefanie D’Herde

Marketing Coordinator Latin America

Antwerp Port Authority

27th March

2014

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1.Insights in the European Market

2. Port of Antwerp’s services offer

3.Reasons to believe

Agenda

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

- …

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:

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

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

9 Fastest import process thanks to customs

preclearance, electronic customs proces

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

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

Deep inland and central location in Europe

Closest to highly populated regions…

60% of

Europe’s

production &

consumption

power

… to major production centres…

60% of

Europe’s

production &

consumption

power

and major distribution centres…

Superior quadri-modal connectivity…

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INLAND

CONNECTIVITY

— Waterway

Water transport

Superior quadri-modal connectivity

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INLAND

CONNECTIVITY

— Waterway

Train transport

Water transport

Superior quadri-modal connectivity

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INLAND

CONNECTIVITY

— Waterway

INLAND

CONNECTIVITY — Waterway

— Railway

— Motorway

Road transport

Train transport

Water transport

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

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

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

Highly productive and customer oriented

Antwerp service providers

Value added logistics services…

Drumming

Quality control

Bagging

Stuffing & stripping Packaging

Service centers

Steel service centers

Paper cutting center

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

Antwerp, knowledge & expertise center

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World partner

in Port Training

Consultancy &

investments in

port management &

development

Facilitating

Headquarters in

Antwerp & Belgium

Reasons to believe

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

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

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

Convinced?

Using Antwerp as a European logistics centre

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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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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