Introduction

Zeeland Seaports is a government-owned company. Our expenditures are covered by our own resources however, and by attracting outside capital.

In 2008, an operating result of 8.4 million euros was achieved, including the participations in ESM and Valuepark Terneuzen. ESM is the co-operation with the Port Authority Rotterdam and Valuepark Terneuzen is a joint venture with Dow Benelux.

In 2007, the result was 12.7 million euros. It should be noted hereby that in 2007 a higher result was achieved from land transactions and that in the figure for 2008 account has also been taken of the contribution of the Inner and Outer harbours of over 1 million euros for the sale of the Inner harbour and the contribution of 1 million euros to the Sloe line pilot project.
The operating results of Zeeland Seaports are not paid out to the participants but reserved for investment, for example.