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The Port of Zeebrugge (also referred to as the Port of Bruges or Bruges Seaport) is a large container, bulk cargo, new vehicles and passenger ferry terminal port on the North Sea. The port is located in the municipality of Bruges , West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium , handling over 50 million tonnes of cargo annually.
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Zeebrugge (Dutch pronunciation: [zeːˈbrʏɣə] ⓘ; from Brugge aan zee [1] [ˌbrʏɣə ʔaːn ˈzeː], meaning "Bruges-on-Sea"; [2] French: Zeebruges, pronounced) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port. Zeebrugge serves as both the international port of Bruges-Zeebrugge and a ...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges is the port authority that manages the ports of Antwerp and Bruges (Zeebrugge) since the merger between the port companies of both ports in 2022. It is a limited liability company of public law with the City of Antwerp and the City of Bruges as its shareholders.
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The Belwind Wind Farm is located in Bligh Bank, 46 kilometres (29 mi) from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, and has been built in two phases. It has a 330 MW production capacity and an estimated annual output of 1.1 TWh. [1] Phase 1 had a 165 MW production capacity. [2]
The port of Bruges is Zeebrugge (Flemish for Bruges-on-Sea). On 6 March 1987, the British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsized after leaving the port, killing 187 people, in the worst disaster involving a British civilian vessel since 1919; it had set sail with its bow door open. [47]
The need to adjust the ship's bow trim to use the port facilities at Zeebrugge and failure to readjust before departure was another factor in the capsizing. [20] In October 1983, Herald of Free Enterprise ' s sister ship Pride of Free Enterprise had sailed from Dover to Zeebrugge with the bow doors open, after her assistant boatswain fell ...