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SEAFARERS’ PORT SEAFARERS’ CENTRE FACILITIES INFORMATION LEAFLET LONDON TILBURY WELCOMES ALL SEAFARERS Manned opening hours 13:30 - 21:30 (The lounge, toilets & outdoor recreation area are all accessible 24 hours a day) Sim cards & Top-ups • Wi-Fi • TV Lounges • Chapel • Shop • Bar • Light Refreshments • Books • Clothing • Pool table • Outdoor Recreational Area inc. basketball court, 5-a-side football pitch, table tennis and putting green. LONDON TILBURY SEAFARERS CENTRE Tenants Row, Tilbury Freeport, RM18 7EH Telephone: +44 (0) 1375 840 454 Email: [email protected] SHIP WELFARE VISITING ORGANISATIONS Apostleship of the Sea Port Chaplain 07963 199 924 German Seamen’s Mission Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest PORT TRANSPORT & Port Chaplain 07958 005 124 SEAFARERS’ TELEPHONE HELPLINES Free minibus pick-ups to the Seafarers Centre from 14:30 daily +44 (0) 1375 840 454 SeafarerHelp…...the lifeline for seafarers (ISWAN) Sailors’ Society www.seafarerhelp.org (All Seafarers) (+44) 20 7323 2737 Port Chaplain 07817 767 759 PORT OFFICE & SECURITY Seafarer Support Referral Helpline The Mission to Seafarers Port Office (Duty Harbour Master) 01375 852 456 www.seafarersupport.org (UK Seafarers only) 0800 121 4765 Port Chaplain 0207 248 5202 Police Station 01375 846 781 RMT 0207 387 4771 LOCAL PORT HEALTH AUTHORITY London Port Health (office hours) 01375 842 663 Nautilus International 0208 989 6677 Produced by the Merchant Navy Welfare Board, London Tilbury Seafarers’ Emergency Duty Officer 07050 389 861 Centre and the seafarers’ welfare charities. The MNWB is registered as a charity No.212799 in England & Wales and No.SC039669 in Scotland. Map ITF Inspector (Tilbury) 07949 246 219 MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY UK courtesy of Forth Ports. Please pass any amendments directly to MNWB on ITF HQ 0207 403 2733 Issue Date 04/19 02380 337799 or visit: www.mnwb.org Port Chaplains based at the London Tilbury Seafarers’ Centre [email protected] PLACES OF WORSHIP SHOPPING PUBLIC TRANSPORT Anglican: St John’s Church, Asda, Thurrock Park Way (see map) 01375 855 454 Train: National Rail Enquiries (www.nationalrail.co.uk) Dock Road 01375 842 417 *Tilbury town centre can be found not far from the Docks’ 0345 748 4950 Main Gate (see map) and has some small shops. Lakeside Note: Tilbury train station is a 5 min walk from the seafarers’ Catholic: Our Lady Star of the Sea, Dock Road Shopping Centre has all the major high street retailers - as centre. Trains run regularly to Chafford Hundred (for Lakeside www.tilburycatholicchurch.org.uk 01375 842 309 well as banks and money transfer facilities - and is 10mins Shopping Centre) and Fenchurch Street (for central London). *For details of places of worship covering other away by train (see Public Transport section) Day travel cards are available for journeys into central London denominations and faiths please ask one of the Port which include tube and bus travel. Chaplains or staff at the seafarers’ centre ENTERTAINMENT / LOCAL ATTRACTIONS Bus: Traveline - local bus information Vue Cinema, Lakeside Shopping Centre 0345 308 4620 (www.traveline.info) 0871 200 2233 BANKS / POST OFFICE / MONEY TRANSFER Tilbury Fort, English Heritage 01375 858 489 Coach: National Express Banks: All major banks have branches at Lakeside Thurrock Museum, Orsett Road, Grays 01375 413 965 (www.nationalexpress.com) 0871 781 8181 Shopping Centre which is 10mins away by train (Chafford Blackshots Leisure Centre, Grays Air: Heathrow Airport Hundred station). The nearest cash machine to the port is (Swimming pool & Gym) 01375 375 533 www.heathrowairport.com 0844 335 1801 located in the nearby Asda superstore (see map). Lakeside Karting, West Thurrock 01708 863 070 TAXIS Post Office: Civic Square 01375 842 759 CHEMIST / OPTICIAN Tilbury Taxis 01375 855 555 Western Union: Various outlets in Tilbury town centre inc. Asset Chemist, Dock Road Asda Pharmacy LOCAL HOSPITAL (www.westernunion.com) 0800 833 833 Thurrock Park Way, Tilbury 01375 855 454 Boots the Chemist A&E: Basildon University Hospital 01268 524 900 St Chad’s Road, Tilbury 01375 843 012 Minor Injuries Unit: Orsett Hospital, Rowley Road, K Lewis & Partners Opticians Grays (open 10am to 7.30pm) 0300 300 1527 Calcutta Road, Tilbury 01375 843 074 NHS Direct: Telephone helpline 111 Green initiatives Rail Container M25 Terminal 7 miles “We are still pushing forward with our ASDA A1089 green initiatives at the port, including SUPERSTORE (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 TILBURY out of laybys. NFT Main TOWN CENTRE In March 2015, the UK Green Chill Store entrance Grain 44 SEAFARERS’ Investment Bank and Irish utility group Terminal 43 ESB announced plans for a £190 million CENTRE 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.