• Droogdokkenweg - Havenhuis Vantage – Zaha Hadid Meets Historic Dry Docks
  Arriving at a serene pier opposite the gleaming Havenhuis, its diamond-glass structure appears to float atop a 19th-century fire station. Surrounded by the nearby dry docks—soon to become the city’s Maritime Museum—this location is a photographer’s dream. The guide explains Hadid’s design inspirations and shares intriguing details about how the new museum will revitalize these granite basins.
• Kastelweg - Oosterweel Contrast Drive – Medieval Spire vs. Europe’s Largest Wharf
  As the vehicle passes the quaint 15th-century Oosterweel church, the guide highlights the massive construction site next to it—the Oosterweel works, currently Europe’s largest wharf, where tunnel segments for Antwerp’s anticipated Ring closure are being created. In a few lively sentences, they link medieval river parishes, post-war port expansion, and today’s extensive infrastructure project.
• Scheldelaan - Scheldelaan Duality – Petro-Chem Titans & Graffiti Wall
  Heading south along Scheldelaan, the guide transforms the car into a moving theatre: on the right, stainless tanks, cracking towers, and steam plumes of Europe’s second-largest chemical cluster; on the left, a kilometre-long flood wall bursting with color—the annual international graffiti contest where artists swap spray cans for safety helmets. The guide explains how pipelines run beneath the roadway like hidden arteries.
• Boudewijnsluis - Boudewijn & Van Cauwelaert Locks – Small Ships, Big Stories
  Standing beside De Vaarkom basin, you’re flanked by chemical stacks on one side and the twin Boudewijn–Van Cauwelaert locks on the other—modest by port standards yet crucial for barges and coastal feeders. The guide interprets the lock-master signals, points out bow thruster turbulence underfoot, and explains how these “workhorse” gates keep refinery supply lines operational day and night. Watching tugs guide short-sea freighters through the narrow sluices offers an intimate prelude to the mega-lock spectacle still ahead.
• Scheldelaan - Lillo Windmill Drive-By – Ghost Village Marker
  Passing the solitary brick windmill that once served the vanished village of Lillo, the guide uses this lone survivor to illustrate the port’s vastness: despite 30 km already covered, you’re barely halfway through its territory. They recount how entire hamlets were purchased and dismantled as docks expanded inland, sharing memories of last-generation villagers who refused to leave.
• Berendrecht Sluis - Berendrecht Lock Fly-By – Gateway for Giants
  As the car travels along the service road, the Berendrecht Lock opens beside you—one of the world’s largest sea locks and the main entrance to the docks beyond. The guide shares astonishing statistics and explains the choreography of tugboats and line-handlers. If fortunate, a 300-metre bulker or container giant will glide past the guide rails, offering a windshield-level view of hull plates taller than city buildings. Even without a vessel in motion, the sheer scale—and the guide’s insider commentary—turn this quick drive-by into a highlight of port engineering excellence.
• Zandvlietweg - Dock 910 Riverside Overlook – Terminal in Motion
  Stepping out just meters from PSA’s quays, where straddle carriers buzz like oversized insects and twin crane rows feed the river nonstop. From this single vantage point, the guide points out four frontiers at once: live container choreography in front of you, the Berendrecht and Zandvliet locks just behind, the Belgium-Netherlands border line mid-stream, and the twin cooling towers of the Doel nuclear plant beyond. A truly impressive location.
• Lillo - Time-Warp at Lillo Fort – Geese & Gunpowder beside Chemical Titans
  The guide navigates over Lillo Fort’s ancient roads, swapping smokestacks for cobblestones in seconds. A group of resident geese greets you on the grassy ramparts while 18th-century fishermen’s houses and a tiny dock evoke life two centuries ago. Amid café aromas and birdsong, the guide paints vivid tales of Spanish sieges, smugglers, and the community that clings to its identity in the shadow of the world’s second-largest chemical cluster just across the dike—proof that in Antwerp’s port, past and present coexist within a single heartbeat.
• Ettenhovendijkweg - Antwerp-North Hump Yard Drive-By – Rail Symphony in Motion
  From the car, you look down on Antwerp’s vast marshalling yard, a spiderweb of tracks where up to a thousand wagons are reshuffled each day. The guide narrates the gravity-shunting ballet: locomotives push mixed trains over the “hump,” wagons roll downhill, laser sensors and track retarders brake each car, and computer-controlled switches slot them into new consists bound for Germany, France, or the Ruhr. If timing is right, you’ll witness the process live—a mesmerizing clatter that completes the port’s road-rail-river triad.
• Lubeckweg - Container Canyon Finale – Granite Giants & Europe’s Fruit Gateway
  The guide navigates the car into a maze of multicolored container stacks—steel towers so close you can read the box seals. On one side loom house-sized granite blocks awaiting export; on the other, refrigerated “reefer” racks hiss around Europe’s largest fruit terminal, ripe bananas and citrus moving from ship to supermarket in hours. An exhilarating last burst of port life before returning to the city.

• Gratuities

• A coach or minibus needed during the tour: our guide will board your bus.

• Advised minimum age: 12
• Not recommended for travelers with serious respiratory diseases

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.