Case Study: Port of Antwerp reduces accidents and improves incident response with Milestone Systems' XProtect

Milestone Secures Second Largest Seaport Area in Europe

The Port of Antwerp, Belgium’s gateway to Europe and the continent’s second-largest seaport, manages a vast and complex operation spanning thousands of hectares and thousands of annual ship calls. Its size and high traffic made it impossible for authorities to be physically present everywhere, leaving gaps in surveillance that contributed to incidents such as oil spills, quay collisions, vandalism and theft and made evidence gathering slow and unreliable.

The port implemented Milestone’s open-platform XProtect Corporate with Smart Client, Bosch cameras, distributed servers and Milestone Interconnect to join multiple systems and third‑party integrations (facility management, shipping police). This centralized, high‑resolution monitoring improved situational awareness and accelerated incident response, reduced accidents, vandalism and theft, provided higher-quality proof for disputes, and lowered investigative time and costs while enabling easy future expansion.

Port of Antwerp