At 400 hectares, the dock is the epicentre of the available investment zone. Some 145 million Euros of the 190 million Euro investment was subsidised by the Flemish authorities. Thirteen companies have already set up shop at the Kluizendok, although they have not even consumed a quarter of the available space. At the end of last month the Brazilian company Companhia Brasileira de Logistica announced it would invest 70 million Euros in the construction of a liquid bulk terminal, while yet another major foreign investment project is expected by the end of the year.

 The Port of Ghent has a total of over 600 hectares in land available for new investments. Aside from land at the Kluizendok, there is also 160 hectares in land available in the neighbouring industrial park De Nest, a project by the private company G12 (the Maes group) and 100 hectares in the  Rieme-Noord area, which is a joint venture by the Port of Ghent company, the Flemish authorities and the municipality of Evergem. This has resulted in one of the biggest greenfields of unexploited industrial areas in Europe. It is hoped that the additional land will double transhipment in Ghent in the next decade to 50 million tons. Ghent is the main European port for biofuel production and one of the biggest fruit juice harbours on the continent.

Thermosfles, Ghent could almost double the 80 hectare dock to the south, consuming land that falls under the municipality of Evergem. This will however depend on the construction of the new sea lock in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. If this lock is constructed, it will allow large sea ships access to Ghent. Costs are estimated at a billion Euros, and it will be largely financed (up to 80 percent) by the Flemish government. Talks on the lock with the Dutch authorities have so far failed to conclude, and at the earliest the lock will become operational in 2018.