"Flanders Port Area must no longer remain just words"

“All that is needed for this is a new spirit of cooperation,” the Flemish minister of Public Works and Mobility reiterated even more emphatically at the Zeebrugge port community’s New Year reception. In doing so, he implicitly admitted that this spirit – which should also serve as the basis for mapping out a new port and hinterland strategy – had been missing so far. “Not everyone was ready for it,” he said afterwards.