Transfer from Brussels Airport to Zeebrugge

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Zeebrugge (Bruges on Sea; French: Zeebruges) is a village on the coast of the North Sea in Belgium and makes a part of Bruges, being its modern port. The village is the international port of Bruges-Zeebrugge and a holiday resort with many hotels, cafés, a marina and a beach.

Location

The village has a key position in respect of transport and traffic. Zeebrugge is on the coast of the busiest sea in the world, close to Great Britain and in the vicinity to large industrialised cities. This makes the village a crossroads for traffic from all directions. A motorway to Bruges links Zeebrugge to the European motorway system; it is also accessible from Bruges by train or tram.

Transfers2airports.com offers the best rates for low cost airport taxi transfers between Zeebrugge and Brussels Airport and Charleroi Airport. Upon arrival at the airport, your driver will wait for you at the meeting point (the meeting point is always specified in your airport transfer voucher). If you need a taxi or airport transfer from Zeebrugge to Brussels or Charleroi Airports, your driver will inform you about the exact pick up time at least 24 hours before the transfer.

Zeebrugge is the country’s largest fishing port and its wholesale fish market is also belong to the largest ones in Europe.

The village is a passenger terminal as well with ferries to the United Kingdom, and the harbour serves as the most important port for Europe's automotive industry and is also has a crucial importance for the import, handling and storage of energy products, agriculture products and other general cargo. Zeebrugge has the biggest LNG terminal complex in Europe.

Important historic events

The Zeebrugge Raid occured on 23 April 1918, when the British Royal Navy raided the port and crippled the whole German inland naval base at Bruges. It was Admiral Roger Keyes who planned and led the assault that attacked the German batteries and sank the ships in the harbour blocking the mouth of the harbour for the last seven months of World War I.

Later, Zeebrugge's harbour was the scene of disaster when in 1987 the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry capsized killing 193 people.

Ferry routes

·    P&O Ferries to Hull, United Kingdom

·    Zeebrugge – Rosyth ferry service operated by Norfolkline to Rosyth, United Kingdom (from May 2009) (This service ended on 15 December 2010)