Legal notice – Please read this carefully

1. Introduction

1.1 Operator of this website

The website www.combinant.be (the “Website”) is owned and operated by Combinant NV, having its registered seat at Scheldelaan 800, Haven 755, B-2040 Antwerpen, Belgium, with company number 0807.056.529 (“Combinant”).
Combinant is a joint venture between
- BASF Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, a German limited liability company, having its registered seat at Carl Boschstrasse 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany, registered in the commercial register of Ludwigshafen am Rhein with number HRB 3951; and
- HUPAC SA, a Swiss limited liability company, having its registered seat at Viale R. Manzoni 6, 6860 Chiasso, Switzerland, registered in the commercial register of Ticino with number CH-524.3.002.748-5; and
- Inter Ferry Boats NV, a Belgian limited liability company, having its registered seat at Houtdok 25A, B-2030 Antwerpen, with company number 0403.425.869.

1.2 Purpose of the Website

Via the secured part of the Website, you can consult certain unit information related to containers stored on the Combinant port terminal (such as their availability, status and condition). Some of this information may be commercially sensitive or confidential.

1.3 Use of the Website

Your use of the Website (viewing, printing, downloading, distributing or otherwise) is subject to the present terms of use, as they may change from time to time. It is your responsibility to read at regular intervals all provisions of these terms of use. In case of breach hereof or in case of excessive or inappropriate use of the Website, Combinant reserves the right to withdraw your access permission at any given time and without notice or explanation.

1.4 Registration on the Website

Your authentication means for access to the secured part of the Website (such as username and password) are strictly personal and must be kept confidential at all times.

2. Property rights

All intellectual property and other rights in the Website as well as in software and information made available via the Website (including but not limited to company names, logos, related products, service names, designs and slogans) are owned and reserved by Combinant or third parties licensing such rights to Combinant. The copying, storage or transmission of the Website or parts thereof for any other reason than for internal, non-commercial and informational purposes is not permitted without the express written permission of Combinant. Upon such permission, all copies that you make of the content of the Website will bear the relevant logo of Combinant as it appears on the Website. You may create hyperlinks from other websites to the Website only if you ensure that the Website is displayed with the relevant domain name and nothing suggests or implies that any part of the Website is part of your website.

3. Warranty

The Website and the software and information made available via the Website:
- are provided to you "as is" and “as available”;
- are the result of a given time or moment and can thereby never be seen as definitive;
- shall therefore not, to the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, create any guarantee or representation of any kind, either expressed or implied, in any form or way (such as accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, performance or fitness for any particular purpose) and shall not relieve you from undertaking your own investigations and tests.

4. Liability

Except in case of willful misconduct, Combinant shall not be liable or responsible, to the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, for any damages whatsoever, including direct, indirect (such as loss of profits, revenue, use or data), incidental, consequential and special damages caused by or in connection with the use of the Website and the software or by information made available via the Website. Without liability whatsoever, Combinant may, without notice, modify and/or discontinue operation of all or portions of the Website at any time in its sole discretion. Hyperlinks to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement of such third-party websites by Combinant and Combinant is not responsible for the availability of these sites or their contents. The security and reliability of electronic communication cannot be ensured. You may not send any confidential or proprietary information to Combinant and Combinant cannot be held liable in any way in this respect.

5. Applicable law and dispute resolution

Any claims, disputes or suits associated with the Website, its use or the application and interpretation of these conditions:
- shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Belgium, excluding its conflicts of law principles;
- shall be dealt with exclusively by the courts of Antwerp.
The nullity of one or more provisions of these conditions does not impair the validity, applicability and the binding character of the other provisions. The invalid provision will be replaced by a new one that will comply as closely as possible with the objective of the invalid provision.


A Dutch translation of these terms of use is available upon written request, to be sent to the Combinant at the address first written above.

Een Nederlandse vertaling van deze gebruiksvoorwaarden kan bekomen worden op schriftelijk verzoek, te zenden aan Combinant op het adres eerst vermeld hierboven.