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Ritske sea-going vessel in the Port of Brussels. The Port of Brussels was founded in 1993, [4] as a result of the splitting of the N.V. Zeekanaal in a Flemish and a Brussels institution, five years after the authority over the ports in Belgium was transferred to the regions. The new autonomy in 1993 immediately led to new dynamism and growth in ...
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Over the years, several end canals, whose docks were each reserved for one type of goods, were built in the old Port of Brussels, in the Sainte-Catherine / Sint Katelijne neighbourhood, at the heart of the City of Brussels. These basins were filled in the late 19th century, at the opening of Brussels' new port located outside the Pentagon (city ...
The Brussels Canal (French: Canal de Bruxelles; Dutch: Kanaal van Brussel) is a section of waterway in Brussels, Belgium.It generally refers to the northernmost portion of the Brussels–Charleroi Canal (from the Ninove Gate to the Sainctelette area) and the southernmost section of the Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal or Willebroek Canal (between Sainctelette and the Vergote Dock).
Brussels. Basilix Shopping Center, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, has a retail space of 18.683 m 2 containing 65 shops. [1] City2 shopping mall is located on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat. With 104 shops on a surface of 51.000 m 2 it is the biggest inner city shopping mall in Belgium. [2]
The docks on the south side of the city (at bottom) were filled in during the 1970s. Antwerp's potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte; he ordered the construction of Antwerp's first lock and dock in 1811. Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock - called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King - in 1813.
Euripides in the London Docks, sometime about 1920, painted by William Lionel Wyllie S.S. Akaroa at New Plymouth, New Zealand, circa 1934. SS Alaska (1881) 1881 Magallanes (1897–1902) Scrapped in 1902 S.S. Alaska photographed sometime in the 1890s. SS Albania (1920) 1920 California (1930–1941) Torpedoed and sunk off Syracuse on August 11, 1941
The Rue Neuve (French, pronounced [ʁy nœv]) or Nieuwstraat (Dutch, pronounced [ˈniustraːt]), meaning "New Street", is a pedestrian street in central Brussels, Belgium.It runs between the Place de la Monnaie/Muntplein and the Rue du Fossé aux Loups / Wolvengracht to the south and the Place Charles Rogier/Karel Rogierplein and the Boulevard du Jardin botanique/Kruidtuinlaan to the north.