Customs Clearance Antwerp

About Antwerp

Antwerp is Europe's second-largest container port, handling more than 12 million TEU a year along the Scheldt estuary, and the world's second-largest petrochemical cluster sits directly alongside the docks. That combination - deep-sea container terminals and continuous chemical production - gives Antwerp a freight profile no other Belgian city shares: bonded warehousing, ADR-classified cargo and re-export traffic move through the port area every day, distinct from the administrative freight generated in Brussels or the inland steel and automotive volumes handled in Ghent. The E17, E19 and E34 motorways connect the port directly to the rest of Belgium and to Germany and the Netherlands, and dedicated rail terminals move containers on from the quay without a second road leg.

Freight arriving from Serbia under the Common Transit Convention discharges its T1 declaration at a customs office inside the Antwerp port area, matched against the EU Customs Office List entry for Antwerp rather than a single named terminal - the port hosts several offices split by container, dangerous-goods and bonded-warehouse traffic. Fin Partner tracks the transit file from the Serbian office of departure through to whichever office actually closes it, then raises the import declaration or re-export notification in the Belgian customs system for goods continuing to a warehouse or onward by sea.