FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TO ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. BEST.

To maintain our position as the Port of Britain, our systems, procedures and people need to be the very best. But we also need to keep a watchful eye on the future and anticipate the shape of our industry in the medium to long term.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT | TO ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. BEST. 1 Our investment and development plans are geared solely to increasing the level of service we can provide to our customers. We are committed to delivering increased capacity, the most streamlined consignment handling procedures and the fastest turnaround times, together with comprehensive management information services and the broadest range of transport modes for onward distribution. It all adds up to a world-beating port operation.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT | TO ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. BEST. 2 CAPACITY IS PLANNED TO DOUBLE BY 2030

The Port is on target to deliver a container handling capacity of 6million TEUs a year by 2020, and is forecast to deliver an additional 2million TEUs within the Haven by 2030. With 8million TEUs of capacity per annum, serviced by 51 quayside cranes along more than 5 kilometres of quay,our position as the UK’s most significant container handling hub will be maintained.

Opportunities for further significant deep-water capability within the Harwich Haven can be delivered with the development of the new Harwich International Port Container Terminal at Bathside Bay, and this includes the delivery of major improvements to a 10km stretch of the A120 in Essex, from Harwich to Hare Green. The Secretary of State granted consent in 2006 for a port facility with 1,400 metres of quay, 110 hectares of land and a dredged depth alongside of 15 metres. Serviced by 11 quay cranes, the state-of-the-art terminal will have a capacity of 2.14million TEUs a year with a dedicated rail facility. 31 50 Increase in Quayside cranes For more efficient and carbon friendly operations

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT | TO ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. BEST. 3 ACCOMMODATING THE MEGA VESSELS OF TOMORROW

The trend towards ever-larger container vessels continues, and already there are ships on order that will carry 18,000 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units), with 24-containers-wide stowing capability.

With the recent opening of Berths 8&9, Port of is already well placed to handle these Mega Vessels. Berths 8&9 are part of our Felixstowe South Development, and are the only berths in the UK capable of working the largest container Mega Vessels on order. An extra 730 metres of quay, dredged to a depth of 16 metres, accommodates the largest vessels afloat today, and is capable of receiving multiple vessels simultaneously. Ultimately, Berths 8&9 will provide 1,285 metres of quay, with a depth of water alongside of 18 metres.

18M DRAFT FUTURE-PROOFED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF MEGA VESSELS

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT | TO ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. BEST. 4 THE INCREASING VALUE OF RAIL TO OUR CUSTOMERS

All Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) ports are rail Ipswich and Peterborough and the East Coast connected, and we are committed to promoting Main Line, as well as its diversionary routes to the use of rail transport – for its environmental South Yorkshire. credentials and convenience. The Port has seen significant and sustained growth over the last In 2008, the Secretary of State for Transport also few years, and we are continuing to invest in our gave permission for the Felixstowe Branch Line facilities with the development of our new North and Ipswich Yard Improvement Order to come Rail Terminal, planned to open in mid-2013. into force. This provides the framework for a handful of improvements to be made to the The new £35million rail terminal will be capable Felixstowe branch line, including the dualling of handling up to 1million TEUs a year and allow of a 7km stretch of existing single-track line that up to 40 freight trains per day to run in each lies between Trimley Station and a point west direction, giving rail a 26% modal share of traffic of Levington Bridge, as well as the construction at the Port and helping to remove some 500,000 of three 24-wagon sidings within the existing lorry movements off the roads. Significantly, the Ipswich marshalling yard and some further terminal will also provide nine working roads modifications at Westerfield . In and allow the handling of 30-wagon length 2011, an application was made to the Secretary intermodal trains – without the requirement to of State to extend the time limit for compulsory split and shunt. This important rail development is purchase powers within the 2008 Order to 2018 . of national significance and is co-financed by the European Union’s TEN-T programme. Collectively, these improvements to the local rail network, coupled with the Port’s new North Rail In addition to the North Rail Terminal, HPH is Terminal, will significantly increase capacity and working closely with to fund gauge improve the efficiency of rail transport for our and capacity improvements to the route between customers.

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