The prestigious award ‘WPTS World Ports Award’ has been given to the CEO of the Port of Antwerp, Eddy Bruyninckx. The award was given for his outstanding contribution in the fields of port organization, business development, sustainability as well as corporate social responsibility for the last 20 years.
When receiving the award Mr Bruyninckx said, “It is a great honour for the Port of Antwerp to be rewarded with the WPTS World Port Award. We consider this Award as a recognition for the efforts that the Antwerp Port Authority – not only the CEO, but also the management committee and every one of our 1650 colleagues – has done over the past decades to develop the Port of Antwerp as a world class port.
“Even when times were challenging, we stood up and developed, together with the private port companies, a ‘Totalplan for a more competitive port’, as an answer to the worldwide crisis of 2009. We specifically appreciate this consideration from the United Arab Emirates as we have been close partners in many fields in the past. In our joint interests lies also the importance of the economic development of our petrochemical industry and we are very much aware of the UAE’s vision to construct its own world-class downstream petrochemical industry.
“Investments in both regions create a lot of co-operation possibilities and this award to Antwerp shows that our efforts to collaborate and share expertise, together with our daughter company Port of Antwerp International.”
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