The Port of Antwerp Bruges has announced that work on cleaning up the oil spill at the Deurganckdok is taking longer than expected. For this reason, until further notice only a few barges will be admitted and handled.
Along the Upper Rhine water levels are mostly falling. Downstream from the Speyer Gauge levels are still rising at present. At the Maxau Gauge levels…
At present, average waiting times for the handling of our barges in the seaports are:
Antwerp: 62 hours
Rotterdam: 50 hours
On the Upper Rhine, the level at the Maxau Gauge will begin to rise again this afternoon. At the other gauges on the Upper Rhine, levels will fall or stay the same until Tuesday evening.
In the Port of Antwerp the Deurganck Dock area is still closed to shipping. All requested slots for Sunday and Monday have provisionally been postponed to Tuesday.