VOC: Port of Antwerp, the Gateway to Europe, Relies on Infoblox to Keep Shipping Lanes Open 24x7x365

Thanks to its location 80 kilometers inland from Belgium’s coast on the North Sea, the Port of Antwerp offers the fastest and most sustainable connection for delivering goods deep into the European hinterland. The 14th largest container shipping port in the world, Antwerp handles more than 231 million metric tons of freight per year and more than 14,000 sea trade ships, double the volumes it handled just 20 years ago.

Antwerp’s central location within the Scheldt estuary, with easy access to Atlantic shipping lanes and north central Europe, made it a center of shipping activity as far back as the 12th century. From these historic beginnings, the Port of Antwerp has grown steadily through the centuries and now stands as one of the most technologically advanced port facilities today. Its vast digital infrastructure includes two onsite data centers and more than 170 kilometers in dark fiber connecting over 50 sites within the port and thousands of endpoints.

Infoblox has long been a key element in the port’s networking fabric, supporting essential DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI) processes for more than a decade. The port’s extensive digital infrastructure supports its duties as a port operator, regulator, landlord and community builder and has strategically positioned the organization to carry out its vision for the “Port of the Future.”