For the Flows summer series 2024, we are looking for stories of people from the maritime and logistics world who have a special passion or hobby. Each week you will also see an episode of ‘Geerts en de Schelde’, in which Marc Geerts takes us through the rich history of the port of Antwerp.
Entrepreneur Marc Geerts passed on his transport company to his three sons and has since thrown himself into his new career as a city guide in Antwerp. From there, the idea was born to create a reporting series in which he takes Flows through the rich history of the Antwerp port.
Geerts could listen for hours to his great-grandparents’ stories about the two world wars. “My great-grandmother was born in 1896 and she still knew stories of her grandparents who had lived before Belgium’s independence,” he says. “I was enormously fascinated and gradually started looking up more and more information about this in history books. I wanted to check in that way whether those stories were true.”
Together with Marc Geerts, Flows canned the reportage series ‘Geerts en de Schelde’, which gives you an insight into the origins of the Antwerp port. In eight short episodes, Geerts looks back, in his own style, at some of the key moments in Antwerp’s history, which made the port evolve into the world port it is today.
The Making of
To conclude the ‘Geerts en de Schelde’ series, we would like to take a look back at the making of this short summer series. We spent six afternoons with Marc Geerts in the Antwerp city centre and port. The combination of the history of this important city, the historical facts and Geerts’ casual ‘Antwerp’ way of telling stories made ‘Geerts en de Schelde’ a unique document.
Missed an episode of ‘Geerts en de Schelde’? No problem. You can watch all episodes here.
