Joosen: "We are waiting for additional people. And with us the whole sector."

The night opening of the container terminals and the blockstack for empty containers at DP World could make life much more efficient for transporters at the port of Antwerp: finally a chance to bypass traffic jams to some extent and avoid unnecessary waiting times with containers. But the challenges for the sector remain great, Group Joosen knows. Finding enough drivers, for example. Because a full day and night crew on the trucks, that remains a pipe dream for the time being, if only because there is an acute shortage of drivers. Even in an organisation that quickly found some 16 night drivers: they would rather drive through the night than spend hours in traffic jams around Antwerp during the day. But more on that immediately.