DD Shipping brings 80 coasters to Puurs via Zeekanaal every year

DD Shipping was founded in 1989 in Grimbergen as part of the De Dijcker Group. Currently, the company is part of the Ghent construction group Square and has branches in Puurs and the port of Brussels. “We are a purely operational company. With a dozen employees, we are a small player in storage and transhipment and with a logistics platform. With limited resources, we can offer customers a personalised service. When De Dijcker invested in Grimbergen at the time, it was pioneering work, a bit visionary too in terms of modal shift. The first coaster to arrive there had a load of cow manure on board,” explains director Geert Keeris. The company was still among the nominees for the Shortsea Award in September.