BRUSSELS: The ports of Antwerp and Guangzhou are to collaborate even more closely under the terms of a twinning agreement signed on Thursday 10 December in the Chinese port city. Antwerp, the second-largest port in Europe, and Guangzhou, number 8 in the world, have long had a close relationship with each other.
Already in 2010 Guangzhou signed an agreement with APEC, the port of Antwerp training centre, under which various groups of shipping professionals from the port of Guangzhou have attended courses at APEC. The twinning agreement now takes the relationship between the ports to a new level, to include among other things commercial collaboration.
