ANTWERP: Port of Antwerp helps lay the foundations for the digitalisation of inland navigation. Along with various authorities, it is developing an innovative platform for 2021: SWINg. From then on, skippers and inland navigation entrepreneurs will only need to report their travel, cargo and vessel details once, digitally, within Flanders and the Western Scheldt river.

This will make inland navigation even safer and more efficient, while simplifying a great deal of administration. The online platform will receive the details via (existing) reporting software from the reporter and send it through to all the authorities on the shipping route. Do you already report your details digitally? Then there is no need to install any new software: SWINg is compatible with the existing reporting software packages.

 SWINg is an initiative from Vlaamse Waterweg NV, Port of Antwerp, Port of Ostend, Port of Zeebrugge, North Sea Port, Agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust and Gemeenschappelijk Nautisch Beheer. The innovative platform will become operational from 2021.