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Forth Ports confirms that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 152 acres of land, including a further deep water jetty, close to its Port of Tilbury and is planning to invest at least £100m in infrastructure and facilities.
The land is part of the former Tilbury Power Station owned by RWE which closed in 2013 and is currently being decommissioned. The port has already taken ownership of part of ...
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Forth Ports has achieved the ISO 50001 Standard in Energy Management, recognising that it has systems and processes in place to improve energy performance. The company’s ‘green’ efforts include a four-turbine wind farm at and the optimisation and monitoring of operating speeds of its marine plant including pilot boats and ...
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Forth Ports is poised to make the largest ever investment in Dundee harbour. It has unveiled plans to spend £10 million to create a new quayside with industry-leading “heavy lift” capability, coupled with an onshore operational area and position Dundee as a major centre for the North Sea oil and ...
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Robert Goodwill took a tour of the port of Tilbury this week. Arriving by boat (how else?) from central London, he saw at first hand the major investments being made by owners Forth Ports, and its role in supporting nationally significant projects, from Crossrail ...
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Somewhere out there in the gloom are Peter Ward, senior asset manager at Port of Tilbury, London and Derek McGlashan, Forth Ports’ group safety, health and environment manager in Grangemouth. They managed to climb five of the six highest mountains in the UK in one day at the Cairngorm mountain ...
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DFDS Seaways and Forth Ports are to invest over €6 million in the Rosyth-Zeebrugge freight route, Scotland’s only direct ro ro link to the Continent.
Following a meeting between DFDS chief executive, Niels Smedegaard, Forth Ports chief executive Charles Hammond and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, the carrier announced a ...
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Forth Ports has launched its first Modern Apprentice programme in Scotland. Launched in partnership with SQA (Scottish Qualifications Board), Port Skills & Safety and the Unite the Union and RMT trade unions, it has been approved by the Modern Apprenticeship Group (MAG), the first approval of a modern apprenticeship programme ...
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A major investment programme to increase container storage capacity is under way at the Port of Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest container port.
The port’s owner, Forth Ports, is upgrading 6,325sq m of surface area, which will boost terminal capacity to 12,000teu – a 50% increase since 2005 – and improve landside ...
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Forth Ports is again sponsoring Scotland’s under-12s girls basketball squad who recently competed in the Tim Pirineus tournament in Andorra against some of the best teams in Europe. The sponsorship will support Basketball Scotland's continued player development.
John Kerray, Head Coach for the team said: “All the girls rose to ...
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Forth Ports and NFT Distribution are to build a £20million temperature-controlled distribution centre at the Port of Tilbury.
The centre, planned to open in late 2015, will be a port centric distribution centre and one of the largest refrigerated quayside facilities in Europe, expected to create 500 new jobs. It Its ...
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