New year's letter Karl Huts (KVBG)

Has anyone ever doubted who is really boss at the port of Antwerp? If so, they may now lay their last doubts to rest, because it has been made painfully clear to everyone over the past year. By phone, of course. Or by carrier pigeon, my sources are not entirely unanimous on that. But what they do agree on is that the message came from a city-state somewhere in the Far East. And that this message also suddenly meant the end of all well-meaning initiatives to put Antwerp on the world map again from the local port community. That we Flemish peasants had to know our place, begot. And that we should certainly not think we could create a unique data exchange platform out of our Flemish clay on our own. That the Antwerp Port Authority (GHA ) and the SFPI would do it!