The EPCA 2007 is over again and it has been generally very good for Vopak. Both in our own meeting room and ‘in the field’ many meetings took place in good atmosphere. It became clear that the whole market is on the move.

Vopak felt that the European Petrochemical market is generally positive, with a healthy outlook until at least the end of 2008. Many players are expanding and looking for ways to put their product into the market in the best possible way. With Vopak’s growth & leadership strategy, we will do our utmost to serve our customers best. Now, and in the future!

‘Vopak Grows’ was our theme for this EPCA, referring to the many expansion programs that are in progress. The first results will already become effective by the end of 2007 at our Botlek terminal in Rotterdam where 36.000 cbm has been added. New capacity will become available in a.o. Teesside, Antwerp, Vlaardingen, Hamburg, London and Rotterdam/Botlek in the course of 2008 or early 2009. More expansion projects are in the pipeline.
Apart from the tank capacity expansion programs, Vopak is looking at ways to optimize operations at the terminals. New jetty solutions are currently also under study in the whole EMEA region.

Yearly Vopak EPCA party, Monday October 1st 2007
On Monday evening it was time again to thank our customers and partners at our annual Vopak EPCA party. This has been a good tradition for years now, with over 400 people from all over the industry. You may already block the Monday evening of the next EPCA again if you don’t want to miss this event. It was great to have so many people in. This is for us a very good opportunity to show our appreciation and to catch up in this nice atmosphere. It will be a challenge to book an equally good venue in Monaco, but trust that we will do our best again! We thank you for a very pleasant evening, and look forward to meeting you again next year in Monaco.