forth-ports
The Scottish Parliament's Economy, Energy and Tourism and Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committees visited the Port of Grangemouth recently on fact-finding missions inquiries into freight transport and exports. The first is looking into why small firms don’t export and the second is identifying the main obstacles to freight flows in Scotland and how these might be overcome.
[+]
The Port of Tilbury has signed a new five-year agreement with Cefetra to handle animal feed imports for the East Anglian area. It will bring thousands of tonnes of cargo a year. Owners Forth Ports will also provide a dedicated 60,000-tonne quayside storage facility. Cefetra, which trades over 3 million ...
[+]
Forth Ports has appointed Lord Smith of Kelvin as chairman, succeeding Michael Seymour who will stand down from the role at the end of the year. Lord Smith is currently chairman of SSE plc and the UK Green Investment Bank and is a non-executive director of Standard Bank Group Limited. ...
[+]
Grangemouth, Scotland's biggest box port, handled a record breaking 4,200 containers in late November, surpassing its previous record by over 200. The busy pre-Christmas period was boosted by a strong potato seed season and an increase in the market for whisky and white spirit.
[+]
Treasury secretary Priti Patel (pictured, driving JCB) officially launched construction of the Port of Tilbury's new London Distribution Park on 25 November. At the turf-cutting ceremony, Perry Glading, chief operating officer at Forth Ports-owned Tilbury also revealed that builders' merchant Travis Perkins would be the Park's first tenants, and are ...
[+]
DFDS Seaways, the Scottish Government and Forth Ports have signed a memorandum of understanding to continue the Rosyth-Zeebrugge freight ro ro service – the only link of its kind between Scotland and Continental Europe - under the management of DFDS Seaways.
The service will continue to offer three departures in each ...
[+]
The port of Tilbury is taking two derelict cranes at Battersea Power Station into its safekeeping pending their restoration as part of a scheme to generate the area. The cranes – built in the 1950s and not used since 1983 – have been removed so that the power station regeneration ...
[+]
Forth Ports has signed a long-term partnership with waste firm SITA to create a major recycling and resource management hub based at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames. At the same time, SITA will buy, for an undisclosed sum, Forth Ports' Nordic Recycling arm.
SITA UK will deliver a ...
[+]
Forth Ports and Fife-based Scott Group have gained full planning permission for a multimillion pound scheme to regenerate the eastern end of the Port of Burntisland. Supported by a Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) grant from Scottish Enterprise, the partners will initially invest around £2.5m in the development of the six ...
[+]
Infrastructure work is complete on the 70-acre Forth Ports- Roxhill Developments London Distribution Park (LDP) at the Port of Tilbury. A new entrance road, drainage system, reservation of utilities and landscaping will now allow the building phase of the high quality distribution facilities to get underway. The development will provide ...
[+]
« Back
More »
