Roro traffic:

Zeebrugge is Europe’s most important port for unaccompanied roro freight traffic:

- between the Continent and the British Isles: twelve fixed services to twelve different ports (i.e.   Purfleet, Grimsby, Felixstowe, Immingham, Hull, Middlesbrough (Teesport), Southampton, Portbury, Rosyth (Edinburgh) Dublin and Cork ) with altogether up to 20 departures a day. The main shipping companies are P&O Ferries, Cobelfret, Norfolkline.
- between Zeebrugge and several ports in Northern and Southern Europe, the shipping companies Cobelfret, FinnLines and Flota Suardiaz offer sailings to Scandinavia (to the ports of Gothenburg, Trelleborg, Sodertalje, Helsinki, Esbjerg and Drammen), U.E.C.C. and Flota Suardiaz offer sailings to Spain, Portugal and Turkey (the ports of Vigo, Santander, Setubal, Tenerife, Istanbul and Gemlick).

The port is equipped with 23 berths for roro vessels which together have a loading and discharging capacity of 3,500 lorries per 24 hours: in total almost 1 million a year.

Another example of specialized roro traffic is the distribution terminal for StoraEnso, the world’s biggest paper manufacturer.  In order to reduce the number of transhipments to a minimum a revolutionary logistic concept, the StoraEnso Cargo Unit, which is an extra large container with a capacity up to 80 tons, was developed. The cargo comes from Göteborg to Zeebrugge where it is consolidated to standard containers that are shipped all over the world.