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When the first regular containership arrived on these shores on 7 May 1966 its port of call was not Southampton, London or Felixstowe but Scotland’s largest port, Grangemouth.
The Sea-land freight service called into the Scottish gateways as part of its Europe and American shipping route transporting mostly Scotch whisky to the US. Grangemouth was the only UK port in the rotation making Grangemouth’s container terminal the first port in the ...
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Grangemouth hosted the Scottish Parliament’s cabinet secretary for transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP (pictured centre, with chief executive designate Stuart Wallace, right, and director of operations, Derek Knox) on 6 March in her first visit to a major port in her new role.
She was briefed by the Forth Ports senior port ...
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Forth Ports has had a bumper ‘tattie’ season with 65,000 tonnes of seed potatoes exported around the world from Grangemouth. October and November are the port’s peak months for the trade with over half of the annual total of reefer containers passing through the terminal.
Every year, around 3,500 reefers containing ...
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A Forth Ports-led public and private sector consortium has unveiled its vision for a green Freeport for Scotland as part of the bidding for two locations under the Scottish government’s plans.
It encompasses three key ports on the Forth (Grangemouth, Leith and Rosyth); industrial facilities and logistics centres along the north ...
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Forth Ports has recruited Louise Logan as its latest operations administrator in Grangemouth under its Kickstart traineeship scheme. She took part in a paid six-month traineeship last year under the Government work programme to help out-of-work 16 to 24 year-olds improve their career prospects, by learning new skills in a ...
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