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ABP’s five South Wales ports are offering bespoke logistics solutions for suppliers to the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station project, just across the Bristol Channel in Somerset.
The port of Barry (pictured) is the closest commercial port to the site and ABP can also offer services from Cardiff, Newport, Port Talbot, and Swansea. The construction project is expected to generate large volumes of traffic over the next ten years to ...
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ABP is to invest £50 million to more than double the capacity of its two Humber container terminals. It has committed nearly £30 million to upgrading Hull Container Terminal including the purchase of four new Liebherr ship-to-shore cranes, two of which were delivered in 2016 with two more scheduled for ...
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ABP’s Immingham Container Terminal (ICT) has welcomed A2B’s new vessel, MS Vanquish with a traditional port plaque handover between the port manager and the chief officer of the vessel. She will increase calls by the short-sea operator from 9 to11 calls per week.
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ABP Ipswich says it has again broken records with larger vessels and saw a surge in ship calls in 2016. In total, 743 ships called at the port, up 8% on 2015 figures, while gross rose 13% to 2.6 million gross tonnes last year.
Ipswich, which is the UK’s leading export ...
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ABP’s Port of Silloth had a good year in 2016 handling 54 ships, an increase of 15% compared to 2015. Cargo throughput, at 142,000 tonnes was18,000 tonnes more than the port handled in 2015. Traffic includes imported wheat on behalf of Carr’s Solway Mill, molasses for use in animal feed ...
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The first turbine blade has been manufactured at Siemens’ new wind power factory at ABP’s Port of Hull, the first of hundreds that are expected to be produced every year. It was unveiled on 1 December in front of customers and guests, including Secretary of State for Business, Energy and ...
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Fertliser company Yara UK has extended its North west import operations with a storage and bagging facilities at ABP’s port of Garston. Yara UK, which also operates at ABP’s Immingham, Swansea and Ayr ports, commenced operations at the Port of Garston in late November when the company received its first ...
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Brexit could be an opportunity for the UK to revisit the idea of freeports, according to a report authored by Richmond, Yorkshire MP, Rishi Sunak and published by think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
The report – co-authored by researchers Isaac Delestre and Philip Naylor - argues that free ports ...
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ABP chief executive James Cooper has triggered a local storm after he suggested that the controversial Dibden Bay container port expansion plan could be revitalised.
The scheme to develop the opposite side of Southampton Water to the existing port for commercial use was thrown out by the government 12 years ago ...
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ABP has appointed current Hull and Goole manager Mark Frith as port manager for Grimsby and Immingham. He has managed the ports of Hull and Goole since 2014 following a career in global logistics and operations with DHL, after which he relocated from Canada to join ABP. ABP has already ...
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