MTD Maritime Services collects and treats maritime waste across the ARA region, around the clock, no exceptions. We’re not the loudest company in the port. We’re the one the ships call first.
We’re MTD Maritime Services. We collect, treat and dispose of maritime waste from ships across the ARA region and beyond. Sludge, bilge, chemical washings, scrubber waste, solid garbage, the stuff nobody else wants to talk about at dinner. We love it.
Our port reception facility sits right in the heart of the Port of Antwerp. Our barges are on the water around the clock. And our people know this work from the ground up, because most of them have been doing it for years.
In an industry built on steel, cargo and hard deadlines, we’ve always believed the real work is about fluidity. About removing obstacles. About making the complicated feel simple for the people who call on us.
means we specialise in the stuff that moves: liquid waste, chemical streams, hydrocarbon mixtures, the washing waters nobody else wants to handle. No matter how dirty, dangerous or complex, we take it on.
means we know both sides of the equation. The water and the land. The urgency of a midnight callout and the patience of a long-term partnership. We don't waste your time with endless back-and-forth. We show up, we do the job, we leave things cleaner than we found them.
means having genuine respect for what flows through our hands. Water. The Scheldt. The sea. Clean work leads to a clean environment — and that's not a tagline we print on a banner and forget about. It shapes how we invest, how we operate, and what we put back into the water when we're done.
is also a promise between people. The better we know each other, the smoother everything runs. That goes for our clients, our crew, our sister companies, and the fish in the Scheldt who have strong opinions about our work.
Our managers aren’t office people who sign off on reports from a distance. They know the drill of waste treatment, literally. They get their hands dirty. They know their barges by name because some of those barges are named after their kids.
That’s not a metaphor. Our newest ship is called Florian, after the son of our operations manager. Another is Elliot, after the son of our general manager. Margot is named after our commercial manager. When your fleet is this personal, you look after it differently.
140 people work at MTD. They come with different skills, different backgrounds and different ideas about the best way to get a job done. What they share is a flat structure, short lines of communication and zero tolerance for unnecessary complexity. We solve problems. We don’t create new ones
Our treatment plant in Antwerp handles up to 350,000 m³ of waste water per year, with 12,000 m³ of tank storage capacity. It’s one of the leading treatment facilities in the ARA region — and it works because we combine serious technology with serious biology.
A large part of what we do relies on trained microorganisms that break down hydrocarbons at the molecular level. Nature and technology, working together. The result is treated water that meets the sharpest environmental standards before it goes back into the port docks and the Scheldt.
MTD Wallonie, our facility in Milmort, adds another 450 tons per day of treatment capacity for liquid sludge under pressure. When the fish come back, we consider it a job well done.
MTD works closely with HTC Tank Cleaning, our sister company. The relationship is practical and efficient: HTC’s tank cleaning operations generate waste waters that come directly to our treatment plant. Joining forces means both companies concentrate on what they do best, while the waste gets handled end-to-end without handoffs or gaps.
It’s the kind of partnership that makes sense when you stop optimising for your own corner and start looking at the whole chain.
Our services are certified to ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 14001 (environmental management). We take our ESG commitments seriously, not because a regulator said so, but because the port we work in is the same port we live near. That tends to focus the mind.
