Found on the Web: ‘DD Shipping – Transhipment Platform Between Shortsea and Inland Shipping’
With its two quays (440 m) along the Brussels-Scheldt maritime canal in Puurs and its 13 ha of storage room DD Shipping is increasingly presenting itself as a logistic transhipment platform between shortsea and inland shipping. Thanks to the 9-metre draught at the quayside, ships of up to 10,000 tonnes can be accommodated. That way e.g. clay, rubble, debris, sand, lava, peat, tree-trunks and tree-bark can be shipped in. Sorting is done at the adjoining yard.
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A crane (an E-Crane) equipped with a claw and able to lift up to 10 tonnes up to 32 metres provides fast handling. In...