The Port of Tilbury Facilities
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Green initiatives Rail Container M25 Terminal 7 miles “We are still pushing forward with our A1089 green initiatives at the port, including (A13) The Port of Tilbury some ‘softer’ changes during 2015,” says Perry Glading. The port operates four Travis Perkins wind turbines, each with 2.3 MW Mill sites facilities map capacity, together generating half of the London port’s electricity requirements. Distribution Park A 3.5-acre haulage parking area has recently been opened at London Distribution Park – important for creating 47 more space around the port for hauliers 46 and keeping trucks off the local roads and 45 out of laybys. NFT Main In March 2015, the UK Green Chill Store entrance Grain 44 Investment Bank and Irish utility group Terminal 43 ESB announced plans for a £190 million renewable electricity plant at the Port of Port of Tilbury Tilbury Town station Tilbury. The Tilbury Green Power facility, 42 Leslie Ford House being built on the former Cargill site, will London Container41 Riverside 21 use waste wood to product more than Berths 22 300 GW of electricity a year, enough to Terminal London Container 20 40 power more than 70,000 homes. 13 23 Terminal 12 The partners said up to 370 jobs would 14 19 39 5 11 24 be created during the construction phase 1818 Bulk Terminals 38 6 and nearly 50 permanent jobs once 15 17 the plant is operational. Up to 270,000 10 7 Tilbury 2 tonnes per year of waste wood fuel will 16 (RWE) London Container 9 be sourced from the local catchment area Terminal 8 Fortress 37 36 25/26 Enterprise Distribution and processed at an onsite facility. Distribution Park Those environmental commitments tie Barge Centre 35 1 Berth in with the Port of Tilbury’s commitment 30 Riverside Rail to creating, enabling and supporting cost- Lock Entrance Terminal 31 Fortress effective, low-carbon and flexible supply Distribution chains. “Tilbury is the critical hub for a 32 Park 34 Unit 1 vast array of port-centric supply chain 33 Industrial Fort solutions,” he says. “We are on the door- River Thames Car Estate Terminal step of a rapidly expanding capital city London and we continue to invest and innovate in Cruise Terminal order to meet the growing and ever more Ro-Ro complex logistics requirements of London Berth and the wider region.” Grain and animal feeds Investments and announcements port-centric logistics, linked to the NFT More jobs, more training 2015 brought new partners to Tilbury 2015 was a busy year of big announce- development. With construction work In terms of CSR, job creation is a prime in both the grain and animal feed ments at Tilbury, as the port continued finished at the end of 2015, the NFT driver at Tilbury, says Perry Glading. “At operations. to expand in terms of both volumes and centre is due to be operational in March the beginning of 2015, approximately In January, a new five-year agreement variety... 2016 and will handle up to 25,000 pallets 3,500 people were employed by the port was announced with Cefetra, one of the l The construction of a £20 million per week. community; during the year, another 900 leading supply chain managers in the temperature-controlled distribution l Frontier Agriculture took control of jobs were created. We also have many UK, to handle animal feed products into centre in a long-term partnership with the grain terminal. “Working with Tilbury more apprentices in the port this year.” the port for the East Anglian area. The NFT Distribution was announced. The means that we are able to offer a range of Tilbury was highly commended in agreement will see the terminal at Tilbury 230,000 square foot building is next door new markets and strengthen our position the 2015 Containerisation International handling thousands of tonnes of animal to London Container Terminal – one of the in terms of global exports,” said wheat Awards for its new East of England feed each year; the port has also provided largest reefer container facilities in Europe, trader Marc Rogerson. Logistics Academy. The port spent nearly a dedicated 60,000 tonne storage facility with more than 1,400 reefer points and l A new weekly service into Tilbury £250,000 refurbishing the former London on the quayside. onsite examination services for Customs was announced by container group Organising Committee of the Olympic and In the same month, a strategic partner- clearance… the perfect recipe for devel- CMA CGM. The Euraf1 service between Paralympic Games building to create a ship was announced between the port oping chilled port-centric distribution. Northern Europe and West Africa provides new dedicated centre for logistics-related and Frontier Agriculture. Jointly owned l Pentalver, one of the UK’s leading competitive transit times and is particu- education and training. The port spent nearly by Associated British Foods and Cargill, container logistics providers, announced larly in demand for transport of bananas The Academy provides pre-employment £250,000 refurbishing Frontier is the UK’s largest crop inputs a significant investment – relocating from from West Africa into the UK. The route, training, traineeships and apprenticeships the former London and grain marketing business. On the the depot it had operated at Tilbury for served by six 3,500 teu vessels has a in partnership with Thurrock Council, day that Frontier took control of the grain seven years, to a new purpose-built rotation of Tilbury, Dunkirk, Antwerp, Jobcentre Plus and Ixion Holdings, part of Organising Committee terminal in July, it also agreed its first sale. facility designed with a high level of auto- Montoir de Bretagne, Tanger Med, Anglia Ruskin University. of the Olympic and The vessel, the Aasfjord, loaded 6,000 mation. The 6.6-acre facility at Berth 43 is Algeciras, Dakar and Abidjan, and back Paralympic Games tonnes of feed wheat two weeks later, close to London Container Terminal. again via Dakar and Algeciras. building to create a with the cargo destined for Rotterdam. l The Port of Tilbury port hosted a briefing and networking day for retailers, new dedicated centre manufacturers, logistics providers and for logistics-related food importers, to discuss the rapidly education and training developing area of temperature-controlled 44 Port of London Handbook Port of London Handbook 45.