Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
On Friday, the port of Antwerp received the largest container ship ever received in Belgium. According to the "Vesselfinder" website, MSC Tessa is currently in Rotterdam and is expected to arrive at the MPET station in Antwerp around 11 am. According to what was reported by the Belgian news agency today, Thursday, which added

The MPET Terminal in Antwerp is Europe's largest container terminal and is operated by PSA Singapore and MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company). The brand-new MSC Tessa is one of the largest ships in the Italian shipping company's portfolio.

The container ship has a capacity of 24,116 standard twenty-foot containers (TEU, a standard size for containers, ed.) The ship is 400 metres long, around the length of four football fields, and 62 metres wide.

But it will not take long until this new record is broken, because the MSC Loreto (24 346 TEU) and the OCCL Spain (24 188 TEU) are expected in the Port of Antwerp soon after.

"Performing infrastructure and additional container capacity remain priorities in order to stay at the top level of world ports," the port authority announced this week. "The modernisation and deepening of the Europa Terminal, which has since started, will ensure that the latest generation of mega ships can continue to call at the Europa Terminal."