Jan Briers: 'Port Authority board not a reflection of port'

Briers, together with Beverens mayor Marc Van de Vijver and Boudewijn Vlegels, president of the Maatschappij Linkerscheldeoever (MLSO), was allowed to inaugurate the new wing of the society’s building in the centre of Kallo. The governor highlighted the good cooperation between the province of East Flanders and MLSO. He recalled how in 1970 the port of Antwerp was leaning against the physical limits of growth and had its eye on Left Bank. “It was out of the question that this East Flanders territory would be annexed to the province of Antwerp,” Briers said. Then-Port Minister Jos Chabert came up with the solution in 1978 in the form of the Chabert Act, which definitively settled relations and cooperation on the Left Bank. Five years later, the MLSO was established.