Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.
No car could be seen in dozens of Belgian city centers. Among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk and Mechelen participated in Autoloze Zondag. 'By car-free streets, cities and municipalities are not only more livable, but sustainable transport is also good for the environment and health', according to the organizers. In Brussels, the entire public transport was free on Sundays.
The 14-year-old Ryan Cockx was forced to spend the weekend in a hospital after he was overthrown by bullies at his high school. The Belgian boy sustained a concussion.
The Belgian coast next Saturday is the setting for the first Grote Schelpenteldag. Scientists call everyone to come to the beach to help map the biodiversity of the coast.
The 54-year-old Belgian who entered the E40 on Monday evening at the shop of a Texaco filling station where a Dutchman was killed remains in the cell. That has been decided by the council chamber in Ghent. Two other Dutch people who were also in the shop were seriously injured.
The Belgian who killed a Dutchman in Drongen on Monday evening when he hit a gas station at high speed, was so drunk that he could not be questioned.
The traditional New Year fireworks in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend has been canceled due to the bad weather. The region is on Sunday for hard gusts with coast speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour and a lot of rain. The municipality therefore renounces the annual firework festival, reported Belgian media.
In Ostend on Tuesday, three passengers were sent to hospital on a Tuesday after their car crashed after a flight for alcohol control. Among the victims are two girls from Leuven who were picked up for that while lifting. They had missed their last tram.
On the Belgian coast, on the eastern side of Ostend, a sailing yacht with six detainees has been crashed on Saturday morning. Two of the detainees have died, one third is still missing. Three others have been saved. That reported the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center.
After previous discoveries in the waters in Belgium, on the coast of Zealand and in the Eemshaven in Groningen, are also now on the coast of three German Wadden packages washed ashore drugs. The German police and the judiciary in terms of eleven packages of cocaine the size of a brick that washed up on the islands of Borkum, Baltrum and Norderney.
For the Belgian North Sea coast around Ostend is the last day for millions discovered cocaine in floating bags. The first case was reported last weekend in Ostend but in the meantime, according to Belgian media for 25 sports bags with hard drug found that sometimes fastened together with tape floating in the water.
The Belgian coast has been observed yet no sperm in January, but an 'ordinary' porpoise. That two biologists determined after extensive research of the photographic material. The experts had confirmed that it was a so-called Least sperm whale was able welcomes the conclusion Natuurpunt reported Tuesday.
The Belgian coast for the first time about a so-called dwarf sperm whale. The toothed whale with a prominent dorsal fin, closely related to the pygmy sperm whale was photographed on January 22 at the coast of Oostende.
An airliner of Air France on its way to Amsterdam on the first day of the year over the Belgian city of Ghent nearly collided with an Egyptian cargo plane. Belgian media reported Saturday that the two devices together mainly by negligence of the Egyptian crew narrowly crossed at about 6 kilometers.
The Walloon former politician Bernard WESPHAEL is not guilty of manslaughter of his wife Véronique Pirotton and goes free. That took the conclusion of an international jury after a much-discussed case in the Walloon place Mons (Mons) three weeks.
The Flemish Minister Geert Bourgeois (N-VA) calls for the creation of a union of the North Sea. This must be a partnership of all the countries around the North Sea. At first he thinks his welcome to the Netherlands, France and Great Britain, but also more northern countries such as Germany and Denmark.
go in Belgium votes to ban the BURQINI, to the dismay of the young Flemish socialists. The movement organizes Sunday,, dive-in for freedom '' on the beach of Ostend. All kinds swimwear, including full body covering are allowed.,, A mono or bikini, a onesie, a zeemeerminnenpak, shorts or speedo: it does not matter, '' said President Aaron Ooms Thursday.
Patients and visitors to two hospitals in Belgium are called similar welcome from Monday. The humanoid machines of 1 meter 40 high staff at the reception desk.
Airlines in Belgium have their flights from regional airports now depart from Brussels airport for the time being has not yet recovered from the events of last week. It is busy at the airport in Charleroi, Deurne, Ostend and Liege.
Thursday also closed the international airport near Brussels. That made Brussels Airport announced via Twitter.
Direct has diverted air traffic control all traffic on the way to Brussels after the terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport Tuesday morning around 8:00 am. A total of 32 aircraft were directed to other destinations. That made the Belgian air traffic control Belgocontrol Tuesday.
Belgium has been rocked by a horrific rape case. Seven youths, including two asylum seekers, filmed the rape of a 17-year-old unconscious girl with a phone. The images show how the offenders between 14 and 25 years of dancing and singing in Arabic as they assault the girl.
The Belgian part of the North Sea last year recorded 217 incidents involving ships. In 2014 there were still 193 and 198 the year before, according to figures from the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center in Ostend Minister Bart Tommelein (North Sea) has sent to parliament.
