Veemnatie

Two languages. One site.

A bilingual Webflow site for a port logistics operator in Antwerp.

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Veemnatie homepage — aerial view of the Antwerp port terminal
What
Port logistics · Webflow & localisation
Role
Webflow build & localisation engineering
When
2025 — 2026 · Live
Live
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  • Webflow
  • EN/NL localisation
  • Custom JS
  • Terms & content ops
  • E-signatures

The brief

Veemnatie needed a bilingual presence for an international shipping audience and a local Flemish one — without maintaining two parallel sites in a CMS that doesn’t natively localise.

The build keeps English as the primary content layer and swaps Dutch in through a custom dictionary embed — with the brand slogan deliberately kept in English in both languages, because “Your Cargo, Our Commitment.” is the brand.

How we did it.

3 steps, from brief to launch.

  1. 01

    One site, two languages

    Localise without forking the CMS.

    A custom JS dictionary maps every English string to its Dutch counterpart at runtime — one Webflow site, one content source, two languages from a single toggle.

  2. 02

    Sweat the edge cases

    Make the toggle production-grade.

    Apostrophe normalisation so curly vs straight quotes can’t break string matching, brand lines excluded from translation by design, and the full embed handed over as one maintainable snippet.

  3. 03

    Run the content ops

    Keep the site legally and operationally current.

    Terms & conditions pages, content updates, and the e-signature rollout — the unglamorous work that keeps a logistics operator’s site actually usable.

The result

A bilingual industrial site that one person can maintain.

Liveveemnatie.be
2Languages from one content source
2025—26Ongoing engagement
  • Custom EN/NL dictionary toggle instead of a paid localisation platform — one CMS, no duplicate pages.
  • Robust string matching (apostrophe normalisation) learned the hard way and baked in.
  • Brand voice protected: the slogan stays English in both languages, by design.