New partner reinforces regeneration and clean growth potential and brings even more reasons for Government to back the bid The bid for a freeport on the Thames is now even stronger. Thames Enterprise Park – a 669-acre former oil refinery development site shortly to become a manufacturing, logistics and clean …
Read More »FM Conway doubles Port of Tilbury bulk operation
The Port of Tilbury and FM Conway have announced that they have extended their agreement for a further five years to load aggregate for FM Conway’s Theale facility. FM Conway is the largest independent supplier of asphalt in the south east and driven by innovation and customer service, the new …
Read More »Port of Tilbury begins water-borne coastal deliveries of oil seed rape for ADM Erith
The Port of Tilbury and ADM Erith have successfully launched a twice-daily coastal barge operation to deliver thousands of tonnes of oil seed rape from the port’s grain terminal along the River Thames to ADM Erith’s processing facility. This form of water borne transport reduces truck journeys and ensures a …
Read More »Forth Ports – 2020 closes with a shift to unaccompanied freight
Forth Ports Group reported a 20% increase in unaccompanied freight volumes between Tilbury and Zeebrugge in December using the newest port in the country, Tilbury2. P&O Ferries has added an additional freight ferry vessel to the route to cope with demand. The new terminal uses the latest booking and border …
Read More »Forth Ports welcomes UK Government’s funding announcement for Tilbury & Grangemouth
Forth Ports has welcomed UK Government funding announcement in support of new and enlarged border infrastructure at the group’s key import/export hubs – Grangemouth, Tilbury and Tilbury2 – totalling £11.7m from the Port Infrastructure Fund. Contractors are on site and the new border inspection facilities are set to be approved …
Read More »Innovative Habitat ‘translocation’ underway by new London port Tilbury2
As part of the creation of the new Tilbury2 port, Thames Barges have begun transporting thousands of tons of waste ash from the construction site in Tilbury, to a new home a short distance down the river at Mucking landfill which will be used as the foundation to recreate rare …
Read More »UK Paper Hub launched creating an unrivalled all-in-one facility for paper and forest products at The Port of Tilbury
London’s fastest growing port launches the UK Paper Hub in Tilbury. Bringing together decades of expertise at the Port of Tilbury, the new all-in-one paper and forest product handling Hub is the first facility in the UK created to actively reduce all forms of waste in the supply chain. UK …
Read More »Wilson James expands its construction logistics operation into the Port of Tilbury
Wilson James, the leading provider of specialist construction logistics services, has announced that it has expanded its warehousing and consolidation capacity into the Port of Tilbury, London’s major port. The new facility augments the company’s existing London Construction Consolidation Centre (LCCC) and helps it to meet the evolving needs of …
Read More »Successful ship trials at London’s new unaccompanied roll-on/roll-off terminal at Tilbury2
The country’s newest and largest unaccompanied* freight roll on/roll off (ro-ro) terminal at Tilbury2 took a step closer to opening with the successful completion of ship trials at the weekend. [*Unaccompanied – freight transport without truck drivers] Two of P&O’s chartered freight ferry fleet, the Bore Song and the Norstream, …
Read More »Port of Tilbury Quay workers pay tribute to KeyWorkers and the NHS
Last night (2 April) for the 8pm Clap for Carers event, the hard working team from the London Container Terminal at The Port of Tilbury, undertook a container shuffle of 137 containers to create a tribute to the NHS workers and all the other key workers keeping vital services going …
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