September 15, 2016 [Nieuwsblad Transport/TankTerminals.com] - Two players of the tank storage industry have submitted to the Port Authority of Antwerp their terminal development plans for a territory at Delwaidedok.
173 Hectares of land on Delwaidedok will be available next year as the current container terminal MSC Home Terminal is moving all its services and equipment to the Deurganckdok, their new location. Due to this action the port authorities have published an open tender for further land utilization of Delwaidedok. According to the sources, 15 investment projects have been submitted. Among the candidates were the Belgium company Sea-Invest and the American company Zenith Energy.
During the past years Sea-Invest has invested hundreds of millions for the development of additional capacity for storage of petroleum and chemical products at its locations in Antwerp, Belgium.
Zenith Energy Management is a new player on the market and is known in Europe for their latest acquisition of BP terminal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company is planning to invest around 200 million Euros for development of a one million cubic meters terminal on 30 hectares of land on Delwaidedok.
Sea-Invest is planning to build a bigger storage facility, around 1.25 M m³, for 250 million Euros.
