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First operational deployment of the Fire Service Network Seaport-Scheldt
2024-07-05
At the end of June, a large naphtha tank of TotalEnergies in Municipality of Zwijndrecht suffered a leak. The flammable product was collected in the containment and quickly foamed there by TotalEnergies' company fire department. Both the fire and explosion hazard and the odor nuisance could thus be ...
Successful in-service training for team leaders lays foundation for improved fire cooperation in port
2024-04-04
One of the objectives of the Seaport-Scheldt Fire Network is to provide specific training for its network partners. In that context, a first series of training sessions were organised this spring: a virtual reality training on industrial incident response for team leaders of public and private fire ...
How Does a Fire Service Network Work?
2023-12-18
In the December 2023 edition of the Flemish magazine "Thuishaven", Johan Spruytte of Evonik and Ben Windey of Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Brandweernetwerk Zeehaven-Schelde give a short explanation of how the fire service network actually works.
Port of Antwerp-Bruges Strengthens its Role in Fire Service Network
2023-08-18
In August of 2023 the Dutch magazine "Eén-Eén-Twee" published a two-page article by Rob Jastrzebski on a test conducted by Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the ExxonMobil Refinery with one of the firefighting tugboats and the fixed installation on the terminal.