A Port for Everyone a Vision to 2035: a Port for Everyone
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
a port for everyone A Vision to 2035: A Port for Everyone As a Trust Port we do not receive public funding. We operate, maintain and develop the Harbour for the benefit of everyone by re-investing our profits. Vision to 2035 To be the region’s gateway for trade, growth, tradeable services and an Iconic Waterfront for the City. 03 A Vision to 2035: A Port for Everyone 1 Chairman’s message Chairman’s message As a Trust Port, Belfast the Region’s development in the 21st Century. We Harbour has no shareholders plan to further transform Belfast Harbour into the but it is set up by statute to best regional port in the world serving our existing economic sectors and being a world class centre operate, maintain and for the rapidly growing creative, knowledge and develop Belfast Port for the leisure sectors. benefit of its customers and local stakeholders. Over the next 5 years through to 2023 we plan to invest more than £250 million in major port We receive no public funding, however as we have infrastructure and real estate projects. Improving no shareholder dividends to pay, we are able to quayside capacity, delivering new marine and reinvest every penny of our net earnings back into handling equipment and expanding our workspace the development of the Port. and residential offer through developments such as City Quays, Titanic Quarter, Belfast Harbour Studios This document details our ambitious investment and Catalyst Inc. By 2035 we want to deepen and development plans which take into account our channels, create new deep-water berths and the changes taking place in our economy and the prepare for an era of accelerated automation and way we live. Our vision is to make Belfast Harbour artificial intelligence. this region’s gateway for trade, growth, tradeable services and tourism, generating economic growth Belfast Harbour is already at the heart of Northern and jobs and creating an Iconic Waterfront for Ireland’s digital, media and knowledge sectors, Belfast. but we can do more. This will involve the creation of a new Global Innovation Institute helping the The history of Belfast Harbour goes back over 400 partners of the Belfast Region City Deal realise their st years to 1613 when King James 1 granted a Royal ambition. We also want to create a connected port, Charter Incorporating Belfast to establish a Port. not just digitally but also physically, with a new Since then Belfast Harbour has grown and been bridges across the Victoria Channel and new public transformed from a muddy estuary to modern deep spaces which seamlessly integrate with the rest of water Port helping to shape the development of Belfast. Belfast and its hinterland. Belfast Harbour is man- made, largely dug by hand during the Victorian era, This is an ambitious plan but we believe together with the spoil used to create Queen’s Island. with our key partners we can transform not only Belfast Harbour and the City but help drive the Just as our predecessors had the ambition in the region’s economic development and well being. 19th and 20th centuries to transform Belfast Port and the City into a world leading industrial centre, we now are unveiling our plans to work with our Dr. David Dobbin CBE various partners that will help shape Belfast’s and Chairman 04 05 A Vision to 2035: A Port for Everyone 2 Chief Executive’s message Chief Executive’s message Belfast is a City with accommodation, leisure, tourism, media, research & development, heavy engineering, ambition and Belfast aerospace, retail and more – all are located Harbour has a unique within a relatively small area. business model and opportunity to help Over the next 15 years we will continue working with our customers and tenants, to fulfill our the City realise this entrepreneurial potential. But we also want ambition. to deepen our partnerships with Belfast City Council, Titanic Quarter Limited, NI Screen, our First and foremost we will always be a port; universities and others. Northern Ireland’s primary gateway to the rest of the world. We want to be the most efficient To guide the business we have developed new and greenest port on this island, but also to be values which commit Belfast Harbour to be the best regional port in the world. Customer Focussed, Receptive, Innovative, Collaborative and Agile. We have also identified To compete globally we need to create a port five themes which will shape our priorities, not that has the physical capacity to manage trends just to develop major new infrastructure, but for ever larger ships. We need to become a to support employability, growth orientated ‘Smart Port’ that leads the way in adopting new businesses and the wider community. technology to help customers grow and target new trade opportunities. ‘A Port for Everyone’ is our template for future growth. Our hope is that this strategy will evolve Belfast Harbour also wants to be a green port into a shared vision that complements the and we are working to decarbonize activities in ambitions of our partners and the aspirations of the estate, including the acquisition of electric future generations. vehicles and adoption of shore-side clean energy sources. Joe O’Neill The legacy of strategic decisions taken by my Chief Executive predecessors means, however, that we are more than a port. Belfast Harbour is home to an amazingly diverse community concentrated around Belfast’s waterfront. Commercial offices, residential 06 07 Our Vision: Strategic Plan 2019 – 2023 with an Outlook to 2035 3 Hello Introduction Our Trust Port values guide every aspect Introduction of our work This is Belfast Harbour’s innovative We plan a Growing Port that is customer-focussed and stimulates the regional economy, a Smart Port new strategy for developing the that is innovative and uses the latest available digital best regional port in the world and technologies, a Green Port which upholds the highest creating an iconic waterfront for environmental standards covering land and water, a the city. It will be a great place to Connected Port with better links to the community, the city, the wider region and the rest of the world. We will live, work and study, as well as develop an Iconic Waterfront, a vibrant home to more invest, visit and play. people and an exciting and flourishing tourism and leisure destination. These ambitions are interdependent We have been enabling local businesses and so need to be progressed together. to succeed and trade with the world for more than 400 years. Now we are All of this will support and help Belfast City’s Council’s preparing for the next phase of our 2035 Agenda ambition to accommodate 66,000 new development with a plan that we believe residents, create 46,000 additional jobs, and develop will contribute to a bright and prosperous 550,000 square metres of employment floor space. future for the people and businesses of the region. How we go about the task ahead is just as important. We have developed new values for our organisation that will This is an exciting time, however, whilst guide every aspect of our work. In all that we do we will our plan is achievable, it will not be strive to be: without its challenges which will require management to deliver on our objectives. Collaborative, working through partnerships to This strategy outlines what we want to achieve common goals. achieve by 2035, and our plans for 2019 – , developing a port and an estate Our Strategic Plan respects our statutory purpose sustainability, because we know this in turn creates 2023 which will build the foundations to Customer-focussed that meets their needs; as a Trust Port to “operate, maintain and develop” jobs and economic growth that benefits the whole of reach those goals. the Port for the benefit of its stakeholders. But we’ve Northern Ireland. Receptive, always open to new ideas and the views of also adopted a more enlivened and enlightened Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our Our plans are laid out in five themes: others; purpose “to be the Region’s gateway for trade, employees come from a diverse set of backgrounds growth and tradeable services.” A Growing Port Agile, able to adapt to new circumstances in a rapidly and their skills, enthusiasm and commitment to the changing world; As a Trust Port we don’t have shareholders but highest standards of service and health and safety A Green Port are instead accountable to our stakeholders, so plays a major part in maintaining Belfast Harbour’s Innovative, committed to being early adopters of new A Smart Port we believe it’s imperative that we understand their strong reputation. Their drive and energy will be technology and new ways of working to benefit our needs and hear their views as we shape our future essential to achieving our vision in the years to 2035. A Connected Port customers and our region; strategy. As a Trust Port we reinvest all our profits in An Iconic Waterfront for the City the Port and Harbour Estate to ensure its long-term 08 09 Our Vision: Strategic Plan 2019 – 2023 with an Outlook to 2035 4 Belfast Harbour at a glance The Harbour Estate is also home to some of No public money is received or spent by Northern Ireland’s best-known organisations Belfast Harbour. Our Trust Port Status means including George Best Belfast City Airport, we can more effectively and efficiently Belfast Metropolitan College, Baker deliver for wider society. As a Trust Port, all Belfast Harbour McKenzie, ITV, TPiCap, Belfast Harbour our profits are re-invested back into the Port Studios, Harland and Wolff, Bombardier, and Harbour Estate to maintain and improve Catalyst, SSE Arena and world class tourist services and infrastructure and support local at a glance attractions such as Titanic Belfast.