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Annelies De Smet

Annelies De Smet covers Belgian companies, the ports, and the industrial belt between Antwerp and Ghent.

Latest by Annelies De Smet

Guests and officials seated in the front row at an inauguration event in the port of Antwerp, with photographers and other attendees standing behind them.

Belgium Just Spent Ten Years and 300 Million Euros on Pylons, Which Is the Least Glamorous Kind of Industrial Policy

By Annelies De Smet

The forward fuselage of a Brussels Airlines aircraft under a grey sky, the carrier name running along the row of cabin windows.

Brussels Airlines Flew More People, Earned More Money, and Lost Half Again as Much

By Annelies De Smet

Shared electric scooters and a hire bicycle from several different operators parked together on a Brussels pavement.

A Court Voided the Scooter Licences, and Brussels Now Has Fleets on the Street With No Legal Basis

By Annelies De Smet

Boeing 737 8AS (EI GSI) of Raynair at Charleroi Brussels South Airport, 2025. File photograph.

A Strike Notice at Charleroi Lasted About a Day, Which Tells You Who Needs Whom

By Annelies De Smet

Maersk Kyrenia (ship, 2001), Deurganckdok, Port of Antwerp, Belgium. File photograph.

One Merged Port Explains More of the Belgian Economy Than Any Company Does

By Annelies De Smet

Leuven Grote Markt 2. File photograph.

The World's Largest Brewer Is Run From a Belgian University Town, and That Is Not an Accident

By Annelies De Smet

A lab technician in a hairnet and mask operates a stainless steel bioreactor at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant

Belgium's Biggest Export Is Not Chocolate or Beer, and the Gap Is Not Close

By Annelies De Smet