BNFW Aquires 100% Sea-Brex Rotterdam Shares From Ebrex Holding
SEA-Invest is a Belgian, privately owned holding company with a long-lasting history in port handling. The activities started in the port of Ghent, to become a leading stevedoring company in Western Europe and in Africa. Today the Sea-Invest group is present in the following countries: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, South Africa and the French West Indies.
Sea-Invest is proud to announce that today July 31, its subsidiary BNFW (Belgian New Fruit Wharf nv) acquired 100% of the shares of Seabrex Rotterdam from the Ebrex holding.
Sea-Invest is a Belgian, privately owned holding company with a long-lasting history in port handling. The activities started in the port of Ghent, to become a leading stevedoring company in Western Europe and in Africa. Today the Sea-Invest group is present in the following countries: Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, South Africa and the French West Indies.
The activities of the Sea-Invest group can be divided in 6 divisions consisting mainly of:
- Dry bulk • Liquid products
- Breakbulk, containers and Ro/Ro.
- Fruit and perishable cargoes.
- Logistics and warehousing.
- Ship-owning company.
Sea-Invest handles yearly about 120 million tons of cargo for which it disposes in the various ports of more than 800 ha land. The last decades, port handling services have been extended with a wide range of added-value services, for which Sea-invest invested in dedicated installations, all tailor made in compliance with the customers’ requirements.
Jan Ebus, owner of Ebrex holding: “We are happy that the future of Seabrex Rotterdam is now guaranteed by Europe’s leading fruit handling company BNFW”.
Johan Claes, General Director of Sea-Invest Fruit and Food Division : “Our group proves by this acquisition that we are committed to the long-term future of fruit and perishable handling, both conventional and containerized. By optimising the Rotterdam operations we can now offer our esteemed customers the choice between Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge and Antwerp. Wherever they choose to have their cargo handled they can rest assured of a reliable service, a long time guaranteed performance in state-of-the-art facilities. We were especially attracted by the Seabrex plans to build a brand new, high standard cold store at the South bank of the Rotterdam port. We will further develop in the coming time this investment program to bring the operations in Rotterdam to the next level of professional fruit handling”.
Sea-Invest is already active in the Port of Rotterdam with a participation in one of Europe’s leading dry bulk companies EMO-EKOM.
Seabrex Rotterdam and its subsidiaries Profpack bv, Fresgo bv, Seabrex Customs Services bv and SAFT (Southern African Fruit Terminals) is specialised in handling and storing perishable (fruit and vegetables) and frozen cargo.
Besides this it services its customers with quality control, repacking, labelling, forwarding and customs administration (also with offices in Poeldijk and Barendrecht), transport and distribution:
- 125.000 m² of cold stores
- 40.000 pallet places.
- 2300 m quay length.
- 800.000 pallets yearly throughput.
For more information please contact Ockert Henning, Managing Director of SAFT.
