“Companies do not make themselves nervous, we work on. There is a lot of work to do,” says Kirsti Gjertsen, automoter at Port of Antwerp bruges.
“There is of course a great pressure on our terminals. And we have to see whether certain streams intended for the United States can easily move to other sales areas, or not, or can they stand on quay for longer? That is to wait and see what the impact will be.” – Can you now send extra ships to the US very quickly with cars to just be ahead of those import rates? “That could be, but of course the speed to the United States also lasts for tens of days, so throwing everything upside down is not so obvious.”