{"id":78663,"date":"2026-04-10T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/oil-spill-forces-partial-shipping-halt-at-port-of-antwerp\/78663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:07:43","slug":"oil-spill-forces-partial-shipping-halt-at-port-of-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/oil-spill-forces-partial-shipping-halt-at-port-of-antwerp\/78663\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Spill Forces Partial Shipping Halt at Port of Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-04-10T05:04:53.0000000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n            <span class=\"date\">April 10, 2026<\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2026-04-10T05:04:53.0000000\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Illustration (Credit: Port of Antwerp)&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Shipping traffic around Belgium&#8217;s Port of Antwerp has been partially halted because of an oil spill that has spread from one of the port&#8217;s docks into the river Scheldt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Antwerp harbour typically handles 60 to 80 ships daily. A port spokesperson could not immediately say how long traffic will remain halted or how many ships would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An oil spill occurred during a bunkering operation in the Deurganckdock. The source of the spill has since been stopped and contained,&#8221; the port said in a statement, adding that pollution had spread to the Scheldt.<\/p>\n<p>Antwerp port is part of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the second-largest port in Europe by cargo tonnage, behind Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Charlotte Van CampenhoutEditing by David Goodman)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; April 10, 2026&#13; &#13; &#13; Illustration (Credit: Port of Antwerp)&#13; Shipping traffic around Belgium&#8217;s Port of Antwerp has been partially halted because of an oil spill that has spread from one of the port&#8217;s docks into the river Scheldt. Antwerp harbour typically handles 60 to 80 ships daily. A port spokesperson could not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/78664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}