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Harwich International Port
Harwich International Port is located in the east of the county of Essex in the UK. It is one of the UK’s leading multi-purpose freight and passenger ports and o ers rst Related Sectors class facilities for container and bulk operations. UK MULTIMODAL GATEWAY Strategically situated for freight and business travel • One of the UK’s top ten ports. What are the key • Handles over 3.7 million tonnes of freight per year. business bene ts • Key port for ro-ro ferries to Scandinavia and Europe. • Handles new generation of superferries to improve freight and passenger car of locating in facilities. Essex? • Part of Haven Ports cluster which handles 40% of UK freight. • Major supply port for o shore energy sector. Major property cost • Less than an hour from London. savings: • Less than an hour from London Stansted Airport. • 74% versus the City of London Rail freight facilities within port. • • 54% versus London • Excellent road links to A12 trunk road. • 26% versus England’s major cities Major labour cost Accessible location savings:
Harwich International Port provides businesses with easy access to markets in the • 48% versus the City of London UK, mainland Europe and the world. • 21% versus London • 5% versus England’s major cities The port’s advantages include: Superb transport • Location in the Haven Gateway Ports cluster, the largest deep sea port cluster in connectivity: Europe. PDFmyURL easily turns web pages and even entire websites into PDF! • Proximity to English Channel shipping lanes. • City of London: 28 minutes by train (from Chelmsford, Essex) • 10 miles by road from Felixstowe, UK’s largest container port. • London Stansted Airport: 30 minute • 10 miles by road from Ipswich, the UK’s most important port for grain export. drive (from Chelmsford, Essex) • 50 miles by road from London Stansted Airport with direct access to 200 cargo • London Heathrow Airport: 1 hour destinations worldwide. 12 minutes by Crossrail (from Shen eld, Essex) • 2 hours by road from London Heathrow and London Gatwick airports. • All London Airports within 1 hour 15 • Convenient access by road to Birmingham (2 hours 30 minutes) and Manchester minutes (from Chelmsford, Essex) (4 hours). A large-scale, specialist • Rail freight terminal on site. workforce: • Less than an hour by train from London. • 103,000 nancial and business service workers in Essex • 142,000 Essex-based London commuters “Essex is an ideal gateway to our global markets. With an international seaport • 688,000 London nance cluster at Harwich we’ve got a choice of freight distribution by air or sea.” workers
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Harwich is one of the UK’s top ten ports, handling over 3.7 million tonnes ”of freight Related Pages in 2009. The port’s cutting-edge technology means goods are transported faster and more e ciently, meeting the demand for logistical e ciency and just-in-time CONSTRUCTION OF deliveries. GALLOPER’S £10 MILLION Recent investment allows the port to handle a wide range of freight for various STATE-OF-THE-ART BASE AT business sectors. Key sectors include: HARWICH INTERNATIONAL PORT COMMENCES • Vehicles – Secure specialist facilities for import and export of trade vehicles from small cars to combine harvesters. Ford handles large volumes of Focus, Fusion and Fiesta cars from rail wagons and dedicated car carriers. • Dry bulk goods – One of the UK’s major dry bulk ports for grain, cement, salt, rice and animal feedstu s. Why choose Essex • Feedstocks – Import and processing of feedstocks to create a range of speciality products for industry. as a business • Petro-chemicals – Important location for petro-chemical industry, handling a location? range of hydrocarbons extracted from the North Sea. Half a million tonnes of condensates are distilled every year at the Petrochem Carless re nery sited next Essex presents a unique location to the port. opportunity to companies expanding in the UK and European markets. Bene ting from the UK’s highly advantageous business environment, Essex o ers direct access to the “We make extensive use of ports such as Harwich to distribute our products to business and technology hubs of Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.” London and Cambridge, a high- quality workforce, unrivalled global Paul Wenden connectivity and the UK’s “Engineering & Product Management Director multimodal logistics gateway: four Fläkt Woods international deep sea ports, six rail PDFmyURL easily turns web pages and even entire websites into PDF! ” freight terminals and the UK’s third largest cargo airport (London Key location for o shore energy sector Stansted) in Essex. But, uniquely within the UK, Essex Harwich International Port is already heavily committed to the o shore renewables combines these value-adding sector. The port’s involvement in this sector extends to a growing UK based supply advantages with potentially massive chain and manufacturing sector within the o shore wind industry. cost savings – enabling your The port rst acted as an installation base for the Gun eet Sands O shore Wind company to save money without Farm. Harwich is now involved in the Greater Gabbard project, which, when compromise. complete, will boast an array of 140 turbines producing up to 504MW of energy, making it the largest o shore wind farm in the world. EMAIL US FOR MORE INFO Major business travel and ferry port
Harwich is the UK’s third largest cruise port, with 126,000 cruise passengers and 1 million ferry passengers passing through each year.
The port carries large volumes of freight and business travellers on regular ro-ro Our contact ferries to Scandinavia and Europe as well as accommodating the world’s largest cruise liners. details
[email protected] Planning for future growth Suite 3, 8 Kingsdale Business Harwich is set to expand with the development of Bathside Bay, a £300 million Centre, Regina Road, deep-sea container port. This will enable the port to handle multiple deep-sea Chelmsford, CM1 1PE container vessels making Harwich potentially the second-largest container port in the UK.
Bathside Bay will also increase the capacity of the port as one of the largest hubs for the o shore energy sector, with the potential to be a multifunctional site for advanced manufacturing and high-tech intelligent warehousing.
“It is important that we are able to provide the best infrastructure available to our customers and this will ensure that the port can handle increased freight and motorist volumes e ciently as demand grows in the future.”
“David Gledhill Chief Executive O cer Hutchison Ports UK Ltd Location ”
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